“Malcolm Young Is the Benchmark for Everything”—God Is an Astronaut & the Big 5!

The Foo Fighters' stage-right riffer shares his winding journey that starts bumpy as high-school dropout but ends as a stadium-filling rockstar. In between those mile markers, Chris Shiflett fills in his past with an honest, open perspective that fondly remembers his time with No Use For a Name in the 90s alongside songsmith Tony Sly, recalls having fun with the punk-rock, cover-song circus that was Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and explains how his prototype Fender "Cleaver" Telecaster Deluxe signature almost met its demise during NOFX's final song.