Dave Grohl almost dedicated a Doja Cat song to Josh Homme, but decided to write one for him instead

When a friend calls, Dave Grohl answers. And when that friend is Josh Homme, who called him to ask him to perform at the Josh Homme & Friends concert, the Foo Fighters frontman went straight into rehearsal mode. Grohl's process started with pulling the lyrics of Doja Cat's breakout single “Paint the Town Red” and ended with him writing an entirely new song specifically for Homme.

“I spent a couple of days trying to figure out, 'What the hell am I going to play?' Grohl told the crowd at his Los Angeles concert Wednesday night. “My first idea that I had… I was like, 'You know what? This shit is funny – I'm gonna go out and do a fucking Doja Cat song.'

Grohl spent days of his prep time trying to memorize the popular record, but didn't incorporate much more than the rudimentary part of the chorus, “Bitch, I said what I said.” “There are so many lyrics in this song – like maybe more than 'The Sound Of Silence', which is a lot,” he added. “I woke up at about two o'clock in the morning – I was like, 'I'm not going to release 'Everlong' for the thousandth time”.

For a second, he looked for a backup on Spotify, combing through a playlist of acoustic covers. But then he seemingly remembered that he's literally Dave Grohl and he might just write something himself. Problem solved.

“So I did something that can be considered really, really improbable. But I wrote a song that's really authentic and serious about my friend Josh,” she told the audience, adding: “I thought, 'I'm going to write a song about him and embarrass him in front of all his friends'… because I'm really singing about how i love you, man And I've never sung it out loud.”

In the song, Grohl reminds Homme that he will always be there for him. “When I feel like I've had enough, I've had enough/ If you like to ride, you know I'll ride with you,” he sings on the opening verse. “If I'm single and you got big plans, take it from me, I'll take that chance/ Tell me the reason, I get it/ Whatever you need, I've got you, man.”

Homme embraced Grohl in a big hug at the end of his performance. “We're all here for this one big reason, but I don't know if we'd all be here if it wasn't for this guy,” Grohl said. “And when that fucker calls you and says, 'Hey, I'm doing something'… he'll kick your ass if you don't, basically.”

The Josh Homme & Friends concert — which also featured appearances from Beck, St. Vincent and The Kills — hosted in support of Sweet Stuff Foundation. The nonprofit was founded a little more than a decade ago to provide aid and assistance to “career musicians, recording engineers and their families struggling with illness and disability,” according to the organization's official website.

Last year, Homme revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2022. In an interview with Revolver magazine, shared that the surgery he underwent to remove it was “successful.”