Ahead of releasing his new solo album, ‘Lost At Sea,’ Chris Shiflett recently answered Kerrang’s questions about his professional and personal life. Upon being asked about the worst injury he got while on tour, he recalled:
“This didn’t happen onstage, but it sure f*cked up my tour – years ago, before I was in the Foo Fighters, I was on tour with a band called 22 Jacks, and we were f*cking around lighting off fireworks. We had bottle rockets, where you’d hold them and light them and throw them.
I didn’t time it right, and it launched before I threw it. I had gloves on, and I remember looking down, and the glove was just completely burned off [at the] thumb. I basically almost burned my thumb off!”
Mentioning what he did after the incident, the guitarist went on:
“It blistered up, and then I couldn’t really feel it at all, which is bad because that’s where you hold your guitar pick. I didn’t want to tell anybody in the band because I didn’t want them to be like, ‘You f**king idiot,’ so I just suffered through it. I couldn’t feel my thumb for a week.”
These days, Shiflett is getting ready for a tour with Foo Fighters. The upcoming dates will kick off in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on November 26 and follow the release of ‘Lost At Sea’ on October 20.
That’s why, during the recent chat, the guitarist also talked about the record by answering a question of why people should get it as follows:
“I’m so terrible at answering those kinds of questions. You’re supposed to say, ‘Because it’s the greatest fucking record of all time,’ really give the hard sell. Well, I do feel strongly about this record.”
Giving details on his thoughts, he went on:
“The way we made it was a little unusual; we sort of made it over the course of a year or so when our schedules would align. So we had the luxury of not having to settle for anything; we could just tinker with it till we got everything where we wanted it to be. It’s a little bit different than other records I’ve made before. It’s kind of all the things that I love musically, all jumbled together. It’s a little bit country. It’s a little bit rock’n’roll.”
Chris Shiflett released the latest single from his new album back in July. The track, ‘Damage Control,’ came out after two others named ‘Dead And Gone’ and ‘Black Top White Lines.’
