Foo Fighters Former Guitarist Franz Stahl Still Has No "Closure" After Being Fired in 1999

Almost two decades ago, the Foo Fighters underwent a mild lineup change when Dave Grohl and company fired their guitarist, Franz Stahl, who says he still hasn't found closure since parting ways with the band in 1999.

Stahl was a long-time friend of the former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Grohl, having been musically involved as bandmates in Scream. When the two were in the Foo Fighters, Stahl was fired over a conference call after belonging to the band for a total of two years.

The guitarist recently spoke out about being let go from the Foo Fighters in his latest Orion Press biography titled Learning to Fly, a nod to 1999's There Is Nothing Left To Lose track "Learn to Fly." In his novel, Stahl explains to author Mick Wall that he hasn't garnered "any sort of closure on any of it" even though "we're going on 20 years now" since the official split, NME notes.

Furthermore, Stahl detailed his involvement with the Foo Fighters during their 2001 documentary Back and Forth as "the best years of my life". As of late, the "Everlong" musicians dropped their eighth studio album and HBO documentary series Sonic Highways, which reeled in a total of two Emmy awards. The series followed the band throughout a number of American cities as they recorded a single in each musically influential location on their trek.

Trailing the group's third studio album, There Is Nothing Left To Lose, Stahl was released from the group and Grohl explained to Kerrang! at the time, "It just seemed like the three of us were moving in one direction and Franz wasn't."

The Foo Fighters recently wrapped up their highly successful and star-studded 2015 North American tour, despite Grohl's broken leg. The tour saw guest performances from Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Queen's Roger Taylor, Jewel and Rush's Geddy Lee.

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