Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters anniversary plans, his worst fears, and listening to Fiona Apple "Right now I’m in such a daddy-domestic headspace that even just calling to do an interview is strange" Listen now at link in bio. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Don't worry about that.". "So I thought, maybe now more than ever people need that joy or that happiness or that escape. "Then I had this idea, I was like, 'Okay, it starts with this drum groove. Given Grohl's energy, it's no surprise his champing to get the show back on the road was ceaseless throughout the year. That's why they like it. We had a quick chat with frontman Dave Grohl to talk about what to expect from the record, anniversary plans, constant fear of the end of the world and releasing their inner David Bowie. "I was like, 'Fuck, no way dude. Foo Fighters never leave it too long between visits to Australia. "God, man, it was such a huge relief to just be in the same room as my guys, you know? So, when you're separated for that long, coming back to a roomful of Foo Fighters is like a birthday party every day. But being on stage is really where we shine. Excited as Grohl is to release the first new Foo Fighters music in three years, he is even more excited by the opportunity to see his bandmates again. Since his days as drummer for game-changing grunge icons Nirvana, he's had an enviable life. "We started recording this record a year ago," he says. ', 'Nah, let's wait. "Spend a Saturday night with me, you'll be like, 'Where does he get all that energy? But then the pandemic hit and their best-laid plans went awry. "I just never expected it." There is evidence of the town planners' set square and ruler all over Northridge, California. On a current interview with Apple Music, Dave Grohl, the drummer of Nirvana and the founder of Foo Fighters, explained what exactly he felt when he joined Nirvana in 1990.Through his conversation with Apple Music which was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Foo Fighters, Grohl talked about the turning point in his musical career with Nirvana and revealed he felt not good enough … ', 'Nah, let's wait'. It’s time!”, “Since it’s our tenth record and 25th anniversary, we decided years ago that we wanted to do something that sounded fresh. We had finished everything. "We finished mixing and mastering this record in February. "I mean, it's our 10th record. It’s like Christmas has come early, as rock music legend Bruce Springsteen has interviewed rock music legend Eddie Vedder and other rock music legend Dave Grohl for his Apple Music radio series Letter To You Radio. "It's hard to judge which day is weirder and crazier and worse than the next," the Foo Fighters frontman tells Double J's Tim Shiel. "I'm just like that. We're outside because the bus is locked, and we're standing in a churchyard cemetery. #MedicineAtMidnight Available February 5th. "We were writing it while we were on tour, with the intention of making this really huge, groove-oriented rock record that would fill stadiums and have everyone singing at the top of their lungs the entire time. And then there's this weird finger-snapping thing, we could turn it into this weird loop'. TROY SANDERS We're up against the church so we can avoid the wind, and we're walking over these old tombstones of priests, which is kind of weird. "You're like, 'Okay, what's it gonna be today?'". "So, we just kind of hold on. Disappointing as that may be, it allowed Grohl time to consider the holistic benefits of his music. I love making records and everything that goes along with being in this band. And then everything shut down. "We had made the video for the first single, we had the t-shirts ready to go, we had the tour booked, we had the tapes on the way to the to the plant to be pressed into vinyl. I was really afraid that we were going to die in a nuclear holocaust. BRANN DAILOR We're in Wales right now. | iHeartRadio Learn More Especially these days, having been in isolation for so long.". Since his days as drummer for game changing grunge icons Nirvana, he's had an enviable life "I think every day is made to be lived," he says. "This one is something we've never really done before. Which, at this point, after 25 years, that means a lot. I hate to call it a funk or dance record, but it’s more energetic in a lot of ways than anything we’ve ever done and it was really designed to be that Saturday night party album. It's not the gigantic drums we always have that fills up the rest of the record. After 25 years, let's give them something that's unlike anything we've ever done'. It’s the first track from ‘Medicine To Midnight’, which is coming next year. "We still work very much like a family. We’ve all seen these commercials on television. Grohl talks to NME about new music, fear of the end of the world and releasing their inner David Bowie. The most important thing is that people can hear the songs. But, like so many things in 2020, it just had to go on the backburner. We have a lot of albums to fall back on, so you just have to go with our gut feeling and I thought instead of making some mellow adult album, I thought ‘Fuck that, let’s make a party album’.”, “A lot of our favourite records have these big grooves and riffs. On a latest interview with Absolute Radio’s YouTube channel, Dave Grohl, former drummer of Nirvana and the founder of Foo Fighters, talked about lots of things from Foo Fighters latest album to the worst car he has ever bought. And then last year, I was taking my daughter to school and it was around the time that the US and North Korea were ramping up tensions with each other and she had seen it on the news.”, “She just asked me ‘Dad, are we going to war’? Where are ya? Bruce Springsteen Interviewed Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl, And of Course You’re Going to Listen Just three old music vets shooting the shit about their craft In fact, the sparse, somewhat cinematic feel doesn't really fit with much of what Foo Fighters have offered at all in their past 25 years. Dave Grohl tells the larger-than-life story of jamming with Prince during soundcheck in an empty arena. He has three. interview Video Production We chat with DP Michael Dallatorre about working with Dave Grohl on this hilarious parody of pharmaceutical commercials. He's been waiting for this moment for a long time. Photo: Thomas Niedermueller/Redferns, Getty It would have been a glorious year and a half of touring for Foo Fighters, as the band marks its 25th anniversary and a 10th record, with which it explores musical territory it has never ventured into before. After five or six months, we realised that our normal routine didn’t apply anymore. This weekend they tore up SNL and released new single ‘Shame Shame‘ – a searing, scorched-earth epic that explores their very darkest corners. Don't expect the rest of Medicine At Midnight to be quite so sedate when it's released in February. Until that can happen safely, we’re just gonna have to fucking knock it out in the rehearsal room.”, “To be honest, being away from it for six or seven months, not seeing the guys and having instruments in our laps, getting back to the rehearsal place and playing together to no one was just the best feeling in the world. "It's not huge guitars. 'Is it time to release it now? Dave Grohl plays a large number of guitars, but his two primary guitars are both based on the Gibson ES-335. "From the moment you wake up to the minute you go to sleep. 'Shame Shame' doesn't quite fit the "huge, groove-oriented" description Grohl ascribes to the rest of the album. It’s been a really strange year, to say the least. "When we started recording the record, we were recording these really big rock songs. It was written and sequenced in a way that you put on, and nine songs later you’ll just put it on again. When we get back and once it happens that we walk on stage to an audience, I have a feeling it’ll be the best show and the best feeling the band’s ever had.”. This bland but sunny university town, 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, is an incongruous place for the Foo Fighters to have built a new HQ. In the same interview, Grohl spoke at length about the PROBOT project and the singers that were being considered for inclusion on the CD. Whether we’d been recording or touring, or making documentaries, we’ve been on it for fucking years! "We don't just make songs we could jump up on a stage, we write these songs so that people can listen to them, connect to them, sing along with them, dance to them. We have detected English as your language preference. "I just never expected it." And then the world shut down. Let's go! The band approached the album with a very specific end goal: they wanted this thing to be at its best in the band's enormous stadium shows. It's like, 'Oh, thank God!'.". His primary recording guitar is an original cherry red Gibson Trini Lopez Standard that he bought in the early 1990s because he liked the look of the diamond-shaped holes. ", The early years, the famous faces, and what the Foo Fighters frontman is really like. Now, the engines in Foos HQ are rumbling once more. I didn't want to make some sleepy, acoustic thing that we'd just write off into the sunset of our career. "We started writing this record about two years ago," Grohl says. That doesn't mean he's immune to the wildness of 2020. Medicine At Midnight will be out Friday 5 February. Asked if he considered bringing former POSSESSED vocalist Jeff Beccera out of retirement, Dave responded, "Yes. "You wake up every morning, you pick up your phone, you look and see what time it is, you realise you're a little bit late to make a cup of coffee, and you take a deep breath before you touch on that thing to read the news. During his 2011 interview with Howard, the Foo Fighters frontman looks back on his days as the drummer for Nirvana and his relationship with Kurt Cobain. What? Foo Fighters interview – Dave Grohl talks 'Medicine at Midnight' リリースのクレジット、レビュー、トラックを確認し、購入。 Hello! Discogs: 1997 CD, Dave Grohl Interview. "Then I started playing the guitar parts, and I did the vocal – I mean, the song was done in one day, we finished the song really quickly – and it was unlike anything we'd ever done. We finished our new album in February, it was mixed, mastered, and ready to go. We were ready to implement our world-dominating routine, and then everything just stopped.”, “The whole band just went our separate ways and it was the first time we’d had a substantial break from the Foo Fighters in forever. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs during the first day of the Southside Festival 2019 on June 21, 2019 in Neuhausen, Germany. That's the way I look at every day.". I thought 'That's a good place to start. '," Grohl says. Dave Grohl may be the biggest rock star in the world right now. Why their second record is the reason Foo Fighters still exist. They're my best friends. Hear Tim Shiel on Arvos, Monday to Thursday from 3pm on Double J. Foo Fighters are not your average rock band. In an interview with Planet Rock, Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl talked about the band’s upcoming album, ‘Medicine at Midnight,’ and mentioned the type of album that The Rolling Stones and David Bowie managed to do, yet he hadn’t done yet. Foo Fighters' David Grohl shares his travel tales, from the hotel alias he’s used since the 1990s and where he goes in Austin to escape the crowds to how his love for music gave him a ticket to explore the world. Like, 'Okay, is it time to release it? Dave Grohl’s been honest about the ways he’s still reckoning with the loss of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain 25 years ago. And you have to have the energy, and you have to find the joy, and you have to find the happiness. Grohl: “Those were the days! Pre-Order/Save at link in bio. Your information is handled in accordance with the ABC Privacy Collection Statement. 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