Wargasm in The K! Foo Fighters announce horror-comedy movie Studio Previous Entry Next Entry. Follow Us. Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube. Home News Features Menu. It was just three people who wound up writing songs, touring around in a van. When it comes to things that are deeply personal, I choose to share with the ones closest to me. If my daughters ask me questions about Nirvana, I will answer every one of those questions.
When you became a front man in your own band, did you start to see Kurt in a different light? I learned a lot of lessons in Nirvana that I applied to being the singer of Foo Fighters, about what to do and what not to do.
Publishing is a good example. We have a Bernie Sanders—style formula for publishing on every song. The history of rock and roll is filled with that same old story over and over again. To me, the best idea was to nip it in the bud and have this formula for everything.
How did you pull that off? I sat and made a cup of coffee. I can have a cup of coffee today. I got in my car to take a drive. Beautiful day. It was then I realized no matter how good or bad a day, I wanted to be alive to experience it. That becomes your divining rod. I just want to get to tomorrow. I just want to fucking make it one more day. The concept of starting over is a recurring theme. You hit a crossroads and you have to steer your path. I had nowhere to live. I was going through a divorce.
Pat was fucking leaving the band. The drummer had fucking quit. His dog was pissing on me every night in my bed. I was ready to snap. I had these journals; I would list each of these problems individually. If I focus on one at a time, maybe I could solve these problems.
Maybe I can make it through. I hit things one at a time. The biggest band in the world shatters, and you land on your feet with a great album. Do you listen to that self-titled record much? I listened to it not too long ago. Part of it has to do with the acoustic environment, and part of it has to do with the urgency. The live room, the tracking room, is all stone and marble.
Most people would consider that too harsh of an acoustic environment. We had six days, and I had 14 songs. So I could spend maybe two hours on a song. So within like an hour and 15 minutes, I was done with the instrumental track.
And I had to do, like, four a day. It was just to fucking record these songs on a track. You have recorded in basements and garages, in professional and personal studios. The magic of that old warehouse in an industrial complex in Los Angeles. It makes no sense why the room sounds the way it does.
It just does. I think the record company wanted us to be close so they could keep an eye on us. Because we were nobody. You say no. Or you take it and pull a rock-and-roll swindle. We were very familiar with the Sex Pistols story. I think we did the right thing. We signed with the label they were on. They blazed the trail. They were the ones that made it safe for a band like us to get a record deal. Scream busted up, followed by Nirvana. I almost see Foo Fighters as an afterlife for you.
Has there been much turbulence? You reach a point where you cannot break up. What the fuck you going to do that for? If you look at the foundations of this band, we were four people who came from bands that ended prematurely. Their singer, Jeremy Enigk, found God, and the band shut down.
I thought, They play good together. Which we did. We threw it together almost the same way you put a band together in high school. Just the thought of sitting at a drum stool broke my heart without Kurt being there. I had a fucking dream about him again two nights ago.
I have these recurring dreams about him. In the dreams, the band gets back together, and we do it again. Krist and Pat and I have a different connection to those songs than anyone else. When we play them, it reminds us of how far away that time in our life is and how natural it feels to do again. The whole idea with the Foo Fighters was to be a continuation of life. When Kurt died, someone from this band called 7 Year Bitch sent me a card. Dave remained with the band until lead singer Kurt committed suicide in April In the making of the album, Dave came up with all the songs, as well as recorded all the instruments himself for the record.
Once it was complete, Dave recruited a band to perform and tour the music, which was also named Foo Fighters. The band have remained together ever since, and have released nine studio albums as well as toured the world in stadiums. As well as his most famous bands, Dave has taken on guest roles for a number of other successful music outfits. So maybe I shouldn't be afraid to be weird either. At the same time, he'd been raised by a mother who often worked two or three jobs on top of teaching public school to keep the lights on and the family fed, a work ethic that definitely rubbed off on her son.
It's just deeply ingrained in me. If I were ever at a crossroads and needed advice, I would turn to her first. His father reinforced his mother's values when Grohl shot to fame with Nirvana in in the wake of a groundbreaking single called "Smells Like Teen Spirit" that changed the course of rock 'n' roll while driving sales of "Nevermind" past 30 million worldwide.
Having grown up on the D. But his love of punk was always more about the music and the independent spirit than the school of punk-rock ethics that would view Nirvana's breakthrough as a sellout.
Rather than beat himself up about finding an audience, he chose to focus on the good that came with that success. I can see how it might seem damaging to other people that adhere to that ethically suffocating punk mentality. Grohl manages to capture all those feelings in "The Storyteller," from the inner conflict and excitement of Nirvana's breakthrough to the devastating realization that Cobain was really gone and the sense of purpose he found in doing his own music.
I knew sitting on the drum stool would always remind me of losing Nirvana. I'd never been the songwriter, the leader of the band.
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