Sunny Day Real Estate drummer William Goldsmith hasn’t always had the best things to say about his time with the Foo Fighters. He made a few unfriendly comments about Dave Grohl just last year, calling him “a schoolyard bully” who creatively “raped” Goldsmith by largely cutting him out of 1997’s The Colour and the Shape. Goldsmith is now making a statement that Grohl is the reason SDRE hasn’t released a new album in 18 years.
Goldsmith took to Facebook to say, “the greatest Sunny Day Real Estate record ever made remains silenced, abandoned and buried within the murkiest depths of David Grohl’s sock drawer.” Attached to the post, is presumably some unreleased SDRE music from said album.
Goldsmith says that the music was recorded about six years ago, which would have been some time after Sunny Day Real Estate’s most recent reunion tour. The band initially broke up in 1995, with Goldsmith and bassist Nate Mendel both going on to join Foo Fighters. When SDRE reunited two years later, Goldsmith returned while Mendel stayed to rock on with Grohl. There was another split in 2001, followed by a second reunion in 2009. Mendel took part in the second reformation, though he remained a member of Foo Fighters and is still one today.
