Josh Freese sat down for an interview with Eddie Trunk recently, where he explained he still doesn't know why he was let go from Foo Fighters earlier this year. He also chatted about the coincidental band-swap situation with him and Ilan Rubin. 

When Foo Fighters let drummer Josh Freese go back in May, the band line was simple. They were “going in a different direction.” No follow-up, no explanation, no crumbs. 

Speaking on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk earlier this month, Freese was asked the obvious question, has there been any clarity since the call. The answer was a pretty flat no.

“Not really,” Freese said, as per Blabbermouth. “I mean, I’ve got a couple of theories, but I feel like people are so interested in that because they’re such a massive band that I’m kind of hesitant to comment at all about it yet because anything I say is gonna be used and thrown around and republished and reposted.”

Freese was careful to keep things respectful, adding, “I loved my time I spent down there. I had a great couple of years with those guys.” That lines up with his original Instagram post back in May, where he said no reason was given, and that while he wasn’t angry, he was “shocked and disappointed.”

He later tried to laugh it off with a tongue-in-cheek “Top 10 Possible Reasons” list, including whistling My Hero for a week straight and demanding nunchucks after shows.

Since then, the drummer carousel has kept spinning. Freese returned to Nine Inch Nails, and in a wife-swap situation, Foo Fighters picked up Ilan Rubin.

“It's not like there was a purposeful drum swap,” Freese said. “And, actually, if Ilan, who was playing with Nine Inch Nails, who joined the band after I left in 2009, if he left Nine Inch Nails to go join - pick a band - Muse, I don't know, Trent would've called me. It's not like it was an intentional swap. 

“It's like when Trent needed a drummer, when Ilan split, he was, like, “Well, I'm gonna call Freese.” And he called me and I was, like, “Hell yeah.” Because I missed working with Trent and I loved working with him the last time I did it back between '05 and '09. And it just so happens to be he needed a drummer because his drummer was going to join the band that I just was let go from. 

“So it was just completely coincidence that that's the way that that worked.”

There you go - still no solid answers on why he got the boot from the band, but it sounds like everyone’s doing alright.