Chris Shiflett joined Foo Fighters as lead guitarist in 1999, and since 2005 he has operated in a three-guitar line-up alongside Dave Grohl and Pat Smear. As he tells TG: “Being in Foo Fighters has made me a much better rhythm guitar player…”
How do you go about divvying up the rhythm guitar parts in Foo Fighters and creating such a wide sonic profile?
It’s interesting, because when Pat came back and we had three guitar players, we really had to think about