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Dave Grohl and Josh Homme on rock 'n' roll and their decades-long bromance

LOS ANGELES - In a nearly empty recording room at his sprawling Studio 606 complex deep in the San Fernando Valley, Dave Grohl sat down behind a drum kit and bashed out a heavy funk groove, each snare crack reverberating off the walls of the hollowed-out space.

"You know what's good physical therapy?" asked the Foo Fighters frontman, who broke his leg in 2015 after falling offstage during a gig in Sweden.

Standing nearby, Grohl's pal Josh Homme, the Queens of the Stone Age leader with a knee injury of his own, lifted his head to hear the answer.

"Playing drums," Grohl said.

"Oh?" Homme shot back. "I was gonna say exotic dancing."

It was the rare disagreement between these like-minded rock veterans whose easygoing bromance dates to the early 1990s, when Grohl - then the drummer of Nirvana -

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