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INTERBELLUMquote:Op donderdag 3 maart 2016 09:51 schreef bloodymary1 het volgende:
Nou, er zou toch iets komen met Hiatus...
ENTER MY BELLY
Heb godverdomme eens een beetje respect voor mijn creatie.quote:
Op 
Geniale troll!
Hoe Dave eruit zag Had op zich niet verwacht dat ze een break up zouden aankondigen, maar de kans op een hiatus vond ik wel aanwezig.Prachtig filmpje en meteen alle geruchten de wereld uit helpen
Heerlijk Foo Fighters stijl weer.Vig
Ik kwam in een interview uit 2014 trouwens nog wat concrete opmerkingen van Dave tegen over het album na Sonic Highways. Blijkbaar bestond daar in 2014 al een idee over. Dan geloof ik niet dat we daar heel lang op hoeven te wachten.
Een stukje uit dat interview, dat ging over Sonic Highways:
quote:How is the album being recorded?
We've been dragging two 24-track tape machines around the country because we still love the sound of tape. Some of the places [we recorded] are houses and some are stages and some of them are old rooms so we’d have to build a studio in some of these locations. And that's easy to do when you just open up the laptop. It's not easy to do when you're dragging two 800-pound two inch tape machines across the country, but we've done it everywhere we've went.
That sounds a little crazy.
I don't know, man. I mean, I already know what we're doing for the next Foo Fighters record and that's even f---in' crazier!
What the f--- are you talkin' about?
[Laughs] I don't know. I came up with this idea a month and a half ago. The guys were, like, “Dude, we have to finish this first.” I know, f---!
Ging er trouwens ook niet van uit dat ze gingen stoppen, en was dat wel zo had ik me nog niet veel uitgemaakt, heb niet zo veel met hun muziek.
Ik denk gewoon dat ze even een jaartje rustig aan doen. Geen shows, beetje eigen dingetjes doen, side projects etc. en dan gaat het vast weer kriebelen bij ze. Vooral als ze al ideeën hebben.quote:
Er is ook wel sprake van een "hiatus" maar feitelijk was dat al door Dave aangegeven in z'n brief bij Saint Cecilia. Maar het klinkt meer als een verlengde vakantie dan dat ze echt langdurig niet meer zouden gaan optreden of opnemen.
Ik kwam in een interview uit 2014 trouwens nog wat concrete opmerkingen van Dave tegen over het album na Sonic Highways. Blijkbaar bestond daar in 2014 al een idee over. Dan geloof ik niet dat we daar heel lang op hoeven te wachten.
Een stukje uit dat interview, dat ging over Sonic Highways:
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Hou van bands die gewoon hun eigen ding doen en niet iedere jaar een album uitbrengen omdat het moet. Foo Fighters en Garbage zijn door mooie voorbeelden van.
Garbage heeft binnenkort wel weer een album
Butch
Zoals Tool.quote:
Hou van bands die gewoon hun eigen ding doen en niet iedere jaar een album uitbrengen omdat het moet.
Ah dat is wel goed nieuwsquote:
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Garbage heeft binnenkort wel weer een album
Butch
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Garbage heeft binnenkort wel weer een album
Butch
Tool is weer een geval apartquote:
Zijn sowieso erg vaag en iedereen zit volgens mij in 10 side projects tegelijk.Valt mee toch? Alleen Maynard zit in Puscifer en maakt wijn (zo ver ik weet)..quote:
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Tool is weer een geval apart
Nou.. De rest houdt zich ook bezig met andere projecten hoor. Danny Carey zit bijvoorbeeld ook in Zaum, Pigmy Love Circus en Volto en Adam Jones is ook vormgever van van alles en zoquote:
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Valt mee toch? Alleen Maynard zit in Puscifer en maakt wijn (zo ver ik weet)..
Vandaag bekend gemaakt dat ze het releasen op 10-06-2016 en ze staan maandag 30 mei in Paradiso!quote:
Twee keer Garbage in net 6 maanden, wat een luxe
Preciesquote:
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Vandaag bekend gemaakt dat ze het releasen op 10-06-2016 en ze staan maandag 30 mei in Paradiso!
Twee keer Garbage in net 6 maanden, wat een luxe
Morgen om 9 (!) uur in de vvk
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twitter:axlrose twitterde op zondag 10-04-2016 om 05:23:14HUGE THANK YOU to Dave Grohl for the use of his rock Throne! An amazing gesture!Words rn't enough!! Makes all the difference up there!🎙🎛🔥🎸🎯💥 reageer retweet
twitter:axlrose twitterde op zondag 10-04-2016 om 05:23:33
Ben benieuwd, kan nog alle kanten op. is niet eens gezegd dat het een FF-album isquote:Op dinsdag 20 september 2016 08:57 schreef Dagoduck het volgende:
Dave Grohl Reveals He Is Working On New Album
Nope, verwacht ik ook niet eerlijk gezegd. Maar ik dacht ik post het hier ook maar, eventuele discussie kan beter hier plaats vinden denk ik: MUZ / Dave Grohl: Godlike geniusquote:Op dinsdag 20 september 2016 09:19 schreef Loveless85 het volgende:
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Ben benieuwd, kan nog alle kanten op. is niet eens gezegd dat het een FF-album is
quote:After four of the greatest nights in Cabo Wabo history (!!!), Jason and I flew out of Cabo Saturday afternoon Into LA to meet up with the Foo Fighters charity event. Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, KISS's Paul Stanley, Perry Farrell, Stewart Copeland, Lisa Loeb and some others joined the Foos for a crazy intimate (& at full volume, may I add) setting of a couple hundred donors for Dave Groll's annual fundraiser for improvements at the local schools.
I sang one of the most up-tempo high energy versions of "I Can't Drive 55" ever. With Dave singing the chorus with me, sooo cool. Then a soulful duet with Dave on "Finish What You Started" classic Van Halen. Then Taylor Hawkins moved on to keyboards (this band is so versatile it's crazy) and Jason Bonham sat down on his drums and did an intense Led Zeppelin "Rock 'n' Roll". WOW!!! The Foos were on fire. What a way to end the bash. I'm having more fun at this time in my life than ever - who would've thought?!? Now I really do want to live to be 100.
- Sammy
Tour?
Sonic Highways Europe?
Waarom is Portugal rood?
Vragen, vragen...
Ze gaan optreden op NOS in Portugal. Lijkt me geen toevalquote:
Dat hoop je, of?quote:Op zondag 6 november 2016 12:22 schreef chansadres het volgende:
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Ze gaan optreden op NOS in Portugal. Lijkt me geen toeval
Neequote:
Maar dat is dus aan de hand van dit account: https://www.flipsnack.com/foofighters/foo-fighters-passport.html
Wat een 'officieel' account is schijnbaar (of in ieder geval gemaakt is vóór de tweet vannacht). En daar staat 1 stempel in so far: NOS Alive
Dat ze komen is geen gok. Als ze ook Pinkpop gaan aan doen meer.quote:
Bedankt voor de uitleg verder enzo
Maar dat is dus aan de hand van dit account: https://www.flipsnack.com/foofighters/foo-fighters-passport.html
Wat een 'officieel' account is schijnbaar (of in ieder geval gemaakt is vóór de tweet vannacht). En daar staat 1 stempel in so far: NOS Alive
Kijk eens een paar posts boven jequote:
Dan moet dit de volgende gaan worden.
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Ik zag het verhaaltje maar geen plaatjesquote:Op maandag 7 november 2016 10:54 schreef Loveless85 het volgende:
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Kijk eens een paar posts boven je
https://www.facebook.com/foofighters/posts/10157650106710545:0
Spanje (Mad Cool festival), Polen (Open'er), en Berlijn (?)
Mét stempel voor Mad Cool.
Maar dat is het toch feitelijk gewoon? Ik vind dat jammer, en had echt wel gedacht dat de mannen de overgeslagen festivals wat zouden gunnen.quote:
Ik denk Werchter.quote:
Hoop op HMH/Ziggo, Fortarock zal het wel niet zijn, past er niet echt bij.
Ik hoop dus op België.
Ja, dat is dan wel weer zo. Of overslaan over een zaalshow.quote:
Pinkpop is al zo goed als uitgesloten, en aangezien t vooralsnog alleen festivals zijn verwacht ik dat ze NL gewoon overslaan.
Lowlands is later, PinkPop gaat het niet worden volgens Jan Smeets, Fortarock is vroeger in het jaar en past niet qua stijl, verder is er geen festival in NL.
Of ze moeten iets op Goffertpark doen, maar dat lijkt me ook niet aangezien ze Goffertpark maar X dagen paar jaar mogen gebruiken voor festival (FortaRock en Robbie al daar in 2017, dus denk niet dat er nog een aparte concert komt).
Yup, zaterdag begint de kaartverkoop, nog ff voor die tijd bekend maken.quote:
This about sums it up: FES / Pinkpop #30 - Zonder Pearl Jam, Radiohead en Foo Fightersquote:
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Maar dat is het toch feitelijk gewoon? Ik vind dat jammer, en had echt wel gedacht dat de mannen de overgeslagen festivals wat zouden gunnen.
Dat hele 'we/ze komen terug' komt vooral uit de mond van Jan Smeets, niet de Foo's. Die zijn sowieso daarna nog 'teruggekomen' (naar de Ziggo Dome).
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO
Blijven dromen mensenquote:
Nederland lijkt inderdaad roder
Rock the beach, 19 juni, Helsinki toegevoegd
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Blijven dromen mensen
Rock the beach, 19 juni, Helsinki toegevoegd
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Om jou te pesten. Maar goed, dit opent misschien wel weer wat deuren. Nu was het vooral Juni, waar eigenlijk niet echt 'plek' was op een festival in NL. Lollapalooza is september, mogelijk dat ze dan wat meer (zaal?)shows daar aan vast plakken. Denk niet dat ze voor één show naar Europa komen...quote:
Op https://www.foofighters.com/in-flight-entertainment/
Blijkbaar draait het allemaal om een bevestiging van een optreden tijdens Glastonbury dit jaar.
Laat ze eens een datum in Nederland bevestigen.
Dat. Gaat. Niet. Gebeuren.quote:
En weer een aankondiging van een concert waar ik toch niet bij kan zijn.
Laat ze eens een datum in Nederland bevestigen.
Pas een keer of wat gezegd, plus dit is de laatste show van deze 'tour'
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twitter:KateOfHysteria twitterde op vrijdag 24-02-2017 om 21:23:43Just watching the live stream of Foo Fighters playing in the exact same place my kids go to the weekly roller disco https://t.co/nSpIJq88Zb reageer retweet
Perfect moment om het debuutalbum integraal te spelen.quote:
Heerlijk dit, soort van garage jam session.
Vooralsnog doen die geruchten alleen bij mij thuis de ronde. En dan specifiek in mijn fantasie.
Generator overgeslagen
Ik kocht die EP in een platenzaak, stonden er meerdere van dezelfde, eentje was ¤12 ofzo de rest ¤17. Die van ¤12 meegenomenquote:
ALL MY LIFE bedoel je.quote:
All My Life, altijd een hoogtepunt.
Daar lijkt het op. Ze slaan van alles over.quote:
En weer even terug op de setlist.quote:
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Daar lijkt het op. Ze slaan van alles over.
Was dit jaar in Austin even langs hotel gegaan waar het opgenomen wasquote:Op vrijdag 24 februari 2017 22:16 schreef Dagoduck het volgende:
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Ik kocht die EP in een platenzaak, stonden er meerdere van dezelfde, eentje was ¤12 ofzo de rest ¤17. Die van ¤12 meegenomen
Nice!quote:
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Was dit jaar in Austin even langs hotel gegaan waar het opgenomen was
Jaar ervoor bij rancho de la luna proberen te komen vonden de overburen niet leuk ...kwamen meteen naar buiten dat het privrterrein Was...zeikerdsquote:
Wattershedquote:
Ah datquote:
Feest Helaasquote:
Saint Cecilia aub, zit al 15 maanden te wachten tot ze die live doen.
En dan wel Sean spelen, het minst goede nummer van de EP.quote:
Ik had wat weinig tijd afgelopen oktober anders was ik ff langs studio 606 gereden om met de Lemmy mural op de foto te gaan en de WHITE LIMOOO te spotten die daar onder het doek staat als het goed isquote:
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Jaar ervoor bij rancho de la luna proberen te komen vonden de overburen niet leuk ...kwamen meteen naar buiten dat het privrterrein Was...zeikerds
Maarja, Sky Valley (Kyuss) was er ook niet van gekomen, mooie reden om nog een keer terug te gaan.
Was dat na Wasting Light ook niet al?quote:
Wel leuk dat ze jaar na dat briefje waaruit bijna leek dat ze echt een hele lange break zouden nemen al weer terug zijn
![Foo Fighters - Wattershed [Fan Request]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TSZ9-HkgqFU/0.jpg)
FUCK YEAH
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Staat de volledige show ergens op YouTube?
2x Everlongquote:
Kunnen jullie je die avond nog herinneren dat het gordijn niet omlaag ging
Mocht het de Ziggo Dome worden, al in de stress voor de verkoop?
Alles kan ineens weer jaquote:
Dan toch nog een ziggo concertje....
Oja, ging vorige keer ook geweldigquote:
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2x Everlong
Mocht het de Ziggo Dome worden, al in de stress voor de verkoop?
Weet niet of ik dan heen ga, ligt aan de prijs. Ik ga al naar Werchter.
https://stubru.be/music/f(...)heskyisaneighborhood
Stroom valt uit op 5:30 maar gewoon door gaan
Ik hoorde dat ze maar tot 22u mochten spelen en de organisatie trok klokslag 22u de stekker eruit.
22u?quote:
De stroom viel toch niet uit?
Ik hoorde dat ze maar tot 22u mochten spelen en de organisatie trok klokslag 22u de stekker eruit.
en dan klagen we hier als op Pinkpop de headliner om 2100 moet beginnen (in het licht !)Ja echt he!quote:
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22u?
quote:Even though the group was allotted a two-hour headlining slot on the third day of the luxe festival in the heart of Napa, the band made it only midway through “Everlong,” its hit song from 1997, when it ran up against the concert’s strict 10 p.m. curfew. The promoters promptly shut down the speakers and video screens as Grohl and the band kept going to the wild cheers of the sold-out crowd.
Man man man, maak dan je venue niet in een woonwijkquote:
Stroom valt uit op 5:30 maar gewoon door gaan
Dat bedoelde ik, my badquote:
De stroom viel toch niet uit?
Ik hoorde dat ze maar tot 22u mochten spelen en de organisatie trok klokslag 22u de stekker eruit.
, het vervolg op walk
Maar deze is tof!Vanaf 53 seconde:
Edit: Rifje is een beetje SOAD
ps. dat stukje met die hangtieten.
quote:
http://www.nporadio2.nl/n(...)l-uit-1992-opgedoken
https://www.foofightersli(...)s-in-iceland-videos/
"There's another Grohl on the drum set now."quote:
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quote:
gezien die een nieuwe plaat hebben gemaakt lijkt me dat toch wel de meeste logische band voor een roadburn optreden.quote:
Die bands zijn niets vergeleken met And Morequote:
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Die bands zijn niets vergeleken met And More
Of heet die band eigenlijk Big Tony & Trouble Funk, Cable Junk, Feeble Trunk, Restless Drunk... maar werd dat te lang.quote:
Moeilijke vragen dit...
ook tof, had ik zo snel niet gezienquote:
Nooit gedacht dat de Foo Fighters me nog eens zouden wijzen op dat er een nieuw album van The Obsessed isquote:
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Die bands zijn niets vergeleken met And More
Ik zeg alvast dikke vette, want kan niet anders Sowieso Dear Rosemary live dus die dagquote:
Al gezien op Pukkelpopquote:
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Sowieso Dear Rosemary live dus die dag
Ook met Bob Mould?quote:
quote:
Dear Rosemary & Learn to Fly:http://www.setlist.fm/set(...)elgium-63dc1ea7.html
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Oh nee! Toch niet!
20 minuten extra doorgespeeld.
Vlak voor het laatste nummer, werd nog naar een vrouw gerefereerd, wie bedoelde hij?
Ik denk dit:quote:
Fantastisch, wat n optreden!
Vlak voor het laatste nummer, werd nog naar een vrouw gerefereerd, wie bedoelde hij?
quote:Hey FooFighters please can you dedicate "Everlong" to Laura Weatherall-Plane at Glastonbury Festival 2017 (Official)? Her husband Jon Plane is trying to achieve this amazing tribute for her. She left us on Saturday 27/05 following her courageous battle against breast cancer, and having raised £70,000 for the charity a CoppaFeel!
Everlong was Laura's favourite song played at their wedding as their first dance... having her name screamed to thousands by you at Glastobury would mean the world !! Thank you
Oh wow, mooi dat ze dat opgepakt hebben.. Zulke verzoeken zullen ze vast vaker krijgen.quote:
Het was binnen 2 minuten uitverkocht maar toch nog gelukt net.
Dit.quote:
Edit: God damn it waarom ben ik daar niet
Vraag me hetzelfde af, nu maar stuiteren op de bankquote:
Schoooool is oooout
Edit: God damn it waarom ben ik daar niet
Echt he, 1 van de weinige bands waarbij je een livestream kan luisteren en geen beeld hebt en dan toch keihard aan het rocken bentquote:
(Skin & Bones)Echt man. Wat had ik daar graag gestaan..quote:
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Echt he, 1 van de weinige bands waarbij je een livestream kan luisteren en geen beeld hebt en dan toch keihard aan het rocken bent
Wat een plaat hè. Sowieso is dit hele optreden weer zo geniaal.quote:
Run is nog maar net uit en klinkt nu al als een nummer die ik 20 jaar ken
Nu heb ik honger.*edit: gevonden
Dat zijn niet de Foo's denk ik, aangezien 3FM daar zelf over zegt:quote:
ergens terug te luisteren...?
*edit: gevonden
http://www.npo3fm.nl/nieu(...)p-rock-werchter-2017quote:Helaas... Het is voorbij, de Foo Fighters-set op Rock Werchter zit er écht op. 3FM zond het hele concert live uit, maar terugluisteren is niet mogelijk.
Echt genoten. De laatste keer dat ik ze zag zat Dave natuurlijk in zijn troon en hoewel dat een prachtig concert was (Keulen), zie ik hem toch het liefst op twee benen te keer gaan.
Heb er bijna geen woorden voor, zo goed als het was.
Ik zweef nog hoor. Eerste keer (van de vier) dat ik zo dichtbij hen zag. Pat had zoveel plezier tijdens het spelen, deed zijn sprongetjes veelvuldigquote:
Ah, wat waren ze geweldig zeg. En lekker beginnen met All my Life, toch mijn favoriet. White Limo was ook vet. Wat een energie en wat een prachtig geluid.
Echt genoten. De laatste keer dat ik ze zag zat Dave natuurlijk in zijn troon en hoewel dat een prachtig concert was (Keulen), zie ik hem toch het liefst op twee benen te keer gaan.
Heb er bijna geen woorden voor, zo goed als het was.
Het ging direct los. All my life werd heerlijk aangegrepen. Wat was Arlandria fijn, denk toch mijn favoriete van Wasting Light. Heel erg fijn.Het was gewoon geweldig, ook ik kan de juiste woorden niet vinden. Ik vind mezelf nu toch echt fan. Man wat heb ik hard gesprongen en gezongen en blij als een kind in de Miniplaybackshow toen ze opkwamen, eigenlijk de hele tijd gewoon.
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=595562quote:
ergens terug te luisteren...?
*edit: gevonden
(heb de source nog niet beluisterd, kan ook StuBru zijn).
Ik stond gisteren in het voorste vak, mijn 3e keer Foo Fighters en wat was het weer vet, fijn om Dave weer over het podium te zien rennen na de troon in de Ziggo.
Toen wel ja.quote:
Voor mij ook mijn derde keer, hadden er vijf moeten zijn (incl afgezegde Edinburgh 2015 en Werchter 2015). Nu loopt één van mijn favorietste bands toch nog behoorlijk achter (puur omdat ze sinds 2010 niet zo vaak in NL/BE zijn geweest) op bands als Neil Young (17x), De Dijk (15x), Seasick Steve (8x), Savages (6x), DeWolff en Florence + The Machine (5x).quote:
Ik kan het gewoon terugluisteren op 3FM met de link die Mip1988 postte.
Ik stond gisteren in het voorste vak, mijn 3e keer Foo Fighters en wat was het weer vet, fijn om Dave weer over het podium te zien rennen na de troon in de Ziggo.
Beter komen ze binnenkort weer als het album uit is.
Maar ook Dave Grohl met Them Crooked Vultures. Was ook gedenkwaardig, die avond stond ook Pearl Jam op Werchter als afsluiter en Dave vond het leuk een stukje tamboerijn mee te komen doen met hen. Heb echt nog nooit iemand zo gepassioneerd zien tamboerijn spelen.
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) Een optreden in NL zou fijn zijn, als het kan meer dan 1 datum zodat we niet zo hoeven te zweten als de kaartjes in de verkoop gaan maar dat zal wel niet gebeuren. [ Bericht 100% gewijzigd door bloodymary1 op 03-07-2017 22:13:52 ]
Werchter 2005 was de eerste keerIk was er toen ook, speciaal voor Pearl Jam, was inderdaad gaaf!quote:
Ik ben er nog eens heen geweest in Vorst Nationaal in 2006 of zo. Dat was ook gaaf. En daarvoor al eens op Werchter gezien, maar weet niet meer wanneer dat was. Dit weekend was mijn 20e Werchter. We hebben het gevierd... En Foo Fighters een keer of 6 of 7 gezien denk ik. 3 keer zo en de rest op Werchter.
Maar ook Dave Grohl met Them Crooked Vultures. Was ook gedenkwaardig, die avond stond ook Pearl Jam op Werchter als afsluiter en Dave vond het leuk een stukje tamboerijn mee te komen doen met hen. Heb echt nog nooit iemand zo gepassioneerd zien tamboerijn spelen.
Complete show zonder gelul (of reclame) tussendoor?quote:
Ik kan het gewoon terugluisteren op 3FM met de link die Mip1988 postte.
Ik stond gisteren in het voorste vak, mijn 3e keer Foo Fighters en wat was het weer vet, fijn om Dave weer over het podium te zien rennen na de troon in de Ziggo.
Nieuw nummer.
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Haha, dacht even dat het zo'n saai nummer was, maar dan komt er weer zo'n lekker explosie!
Run blijft een heerlijk nummer. Sommige stukjes doen me qua muziek ook aan Muse denken.
In de Acropolis! Als die maar niet instort dan...Hoho, nou geen NME'tje doen hè.quote:
Ze spelen in het Odeion van Herodes Atticus om precies te zijn.
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Hier spelen ze op dit moment:
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https://twitter.com/GeorgiosBakos/status/884502361485574146
Ben ik ooit ook geweest voor een optreden. Magisch. Vooral als je tussen alleen maar Grieken zit.quote:
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Hoho, nou geen NME'tje doen hè.
Ze spelen in het Odeion van Herodes Atticus om precies te zijn.
En daarna afterparty op z'n Grieks?quote:
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Ben ik ooit ook geweest voor een optreden. Magisch. Vooral als je tussen alleen maar Grieken zit.
https://oor.nl/news/paul-mccartney-drumt-op-nieuwe-foo-fighters/quote:PAUL MCCARTNEY DRUMT OP NIEUWE FOO FIGHTERS
3 AUGUSTUS 2017
Sir Paul McCartney drumt mee op het aankomende album van de Foo Fighters. De ex-Beatle had genoeg aan slechts twee takes voor zijn drumpartij. Andere bekende bijdragen komen van The Kills’ Alison Mosshart en een niet nader te noemen popster.
Paul McCartney hielp een handje mee en verzorgde de drums voor een van de songs. ‘Hij is een vriend’, vertelt frontman Dave Grohl aan ET Canada. ‘We kennen hem al erg lang, hij is geweldig’. Drummer Taylor Hawkins voegt toe: ‘Hij kwam binnen en Dave pakte een akoestische gitaar op en liet hem snel wat horen. Hij zat op een speciale drumset die zijn technicus voor hem opzette. Hij deed het in twee takes’.
Toch is de ex-Beatle niet de grootste megaster die op het nieuwe album te horen is, beweren de Foo Fighters. Grohl zegt dat de ‘grootste popster in de wereld’ ook op de plaat te horen is en dat hij of zij achtergrondvocalen verzorgt op een van de hardste nummers op de plaat: ‘En we vertellen niemand wie het is’. Adele en Taylor Swift zijn het in ieder geval niet. ‘Was het Adele maar, Godallemachtig, dat zou fantastisch zijn’, aldus Grohl.
Concrete And Gold komt uit op 15 september. Eerder hoorden we The Sky Is A Neighbourhood, La Dee Da, Sunday Rain, Dirty Water en Arrows al tijdens concerten. De clip van eerst single Run werd door Dave Grohl zelf geregisseerd.
McCartney hadden ze destijds toch ook gevraagd voor Them Crooked Vultures?
Ben benieuwd wie die "grootste popster in de wereld" zal zijn.
Ze hebben natuurlijk met de Sound City Players ook samengewerkt.quote:
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https://oor.nl/news/paul-mccartney-drumt-op-nieuwe-foo-fighters/
McCartney hadden ze destijds toch ook gevraagd voor Them Crooked Vultures?
Ben benieuwd wie die "grootste popster in de wereld" zal zijn.
Hmm, mwah, tja.quote:
Was me nog niet opgevallen, had niet zo op de clip gelet.
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quote:CONCRETE AND GOLD WORLD TOUR
RETURNING TO AU & NZ STADIUMS IN JAN-FEB 2018
WITH VERY SPECIAL GUESTS WEEZER
PLUS LOCAL SUPPORTS IN EACH CITY
AUCKLAND SHOW DETAILS REVEALED!
Details of each show will be revealed in the relevant AU time zone’s ‘Zero Hour’ on Thursday 7 September
Hearts, minds and attendance records are set to be blown in January and February 2018 as Foo Fighters return to rock stadiums across Australia and New Zealand in support of their ninth studio album Concrete and Gold (out 15 September on Roswell Records/RCA Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia and New Zealand).
Foo Fighters will be joined at all shows by very special guests Weezer, plus a local opener from each city on the tour.
Foo Fighters were last in Australia and New Zealand on their 20th Anniversary World Tour supporting their eighth album Sonic Highways, tearing through anthems including “Something From Nothing” and perennial favorites ‘Everlong’, ‘Learn To Fly’, ‘Best Of You’ and ‘My Hero’, picking up the record as one of 2015’s top five grossing tours in the process:
‘HIT AFTER HIT ON A PERFECT SUMMER NIGHT’ – BILLBOARD
‘THE CROWD YOUNG AND OLD JOINED IN, BELTING OUT SONGS THAT SPAN THE BEST PART OF OUR LIVES… BRILLIANT IN EVERY RESPECT’ – THE ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
Available for pre-order here, Concrete and Gold is the newest Foo Fighters music since 2015’s Saint Cecilia EP and the band’s first full-length album in three years. Concrete and Gold sees Foo Fighters add new dimensions to their trademark hard melodic rock n roll.
The public’s first taste of the new album came in the form of the most enthusiastically received single in Foo Fighters history, the surprise hard rock anthem of the year “Run”, and its time-traveling mind-warp of a video directed by Dave Grohl himself.
The clip for follow-up single, “The Sky Is A Neighborhood” was a Grohl family affair, with Dave sitting in the director’s chair once more and his two daughters Violet and Harper playing the lead roles in the ‘rock and roll fairytale’ (Rolling Stone) video.
With producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Pink) at the helm, Concrete and Gold seamlessly combines hard rock extremes and pop sensibilities across those singles and nine more incredible tracks:
“I wanted it to be the biggest sounding Foo Fighters record ever. To make a gigantic rock record but with Greg Kurstin’s sense of melody and arrangement… Motorhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper… or something like that.” – Dave Grohl
These dates will be the first time Australian and New Zealand fans will experience tracks from Concrete and Gold live in all their glory, holding their own alongside Foo Fighters classics like “Walk”, “These Days”, “The Pretender”, “All My Life” “Times Like These” among countless others.
American alt-rockers Weezer will be leaving ‘Beverly Hills’ behind to join Foo Fighters as their very special guests at all Australian and New Zealand shows on the Concrete And Gold World Tour. These will be Weezer’s first shows in our countries since their acclaimed Blue Album Memories shows in 2013, and only their third AU & NZ tour ever in an illustrious 25+ year career defined by tracks like ‘Say It Ain’t So’, ‘Buddy Holly’, ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’, and ‘Island In The Sun’.
The release of Weezer’s eleventh studio album Pacific Daydream is slated for Friday 27 October through Warner Music, with lead singles ‘Feels Like Summer’ and ‘Mexican Fender’ already receiving buzz from fans and critics alike.
Each Australian and New Zealand show will feature a local opener –
Dynamic and driving Wellington punk band Ayn Randy will open the Auckland show. With a sound duly spiked with shout-a-long hooks, expect a set filled with plenty of urgent punk on rip-roaring songs.
Make no mistake: Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold Australian and New Zealand tour with special guests Weezer will be one for the history books. Act quick to secure your tickets to be part of one of the season’s most epic tours.
http://www.nu.nl/muziek/4(...)um-foo-fighters.htmlquote:Justin Timberlake is de 'mystery guest' op het aankomende album van de Foo Fighters, Concrete and Gold. Zanger Dave Grohl zegt dat Timberlake zelf vroeg om op het album mee te kunnen zingen.
Grohl vertelt aan Rolling Stone dat de band en Timberlake regelmatig drankjes dronken tussen opnames in een muziekstudio in Los Angeles, Californië waar ze los van elkaar nummers opnamen.
"We dronken whiskey op het parkeerterrein. Hij was echt heel cool. De laatste avond dat hij er was vroeg hij of hij mee mocht zingen op ons album. 'Ik wil mijn vrienden dat kunnen vertellen'", aldus Grohl.
De bijdrage van Timberlake is uiteindelijk niet heel groot: op een nummer zingt hij de "la la la's". De Foo Fighter-zanger was erg onder de indruk: "Die jongen komt nog eens ergens", aldus Grohl lachend.
Benieuwd naar het resultaat wel, hopelijk gaan ze niet een te commerciële (lees:: poppy) kant op.
Nah dat valt wel mee als je de huidige tracks hoort, al zou je het wel verwachten als je dit leest over Timberlake en kijkt wie de producer is. Maar goed, dit klinkt ook vrij spontaan, niet echt alsof er gevraagd is of Justin asjeblieft wil komen zingen, maar gewoon dat ze elkaar tegen kwamen en Justin zei 'Goh, lijkt me gaaf een stukje mee te doen'. Zo drumt overigens Paul McCartney ook op een nummer.quote:
Ik vind Timberlake best tof... maar om dat nu te vragen op een Foo Fighters album...
Benieuwd naar het resultaat wel, hopelijk gaan ze niet een te commerciële (lees:: poppy) kant op.
Hele artikel is overigens ook de moeite waarde:
quote:What a Foo Believes: The Sweet Life and Rock & Roll Faith of America's Biggest Band
Dave Grohl goes deep on bro-ing down with Justin Timberlake, missing Chris Cornell and his band's star-studded new LP
"This is my first day off in weeks," Dave Grohl says, barefoot in his kitchen in jeans and a biker T-shirt, big goofy Dave Grohl grin on his face. The 48-year-old Foo Fighters frontman doesn't get much downtime these days, between making records, touring, directing documentaries and gigging with pretty much anyone who asks. (Grohl: "I just like to jam!") But today, he finds himself uncharacteristically unoccupied. "What should we do?"
Grohl already dropped his two older daughters off at special-effects camp. His youngest, three-year-old Ophelia, is at pre-school, so now he has the day to himself. Next week, the Foos will hit the road in support of their ninth album, Concrete and Gold, flying first to Chicago, then Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe, then back home to throw their own festival, Cal Jam, on October 7th. So Grohl would be forgiven for taking just one day to chill. But "drummers are like sharks," as Foos guitarist Pat Smear says. "They have to move all the time or they die." So instead, we're going to cross a few errands off his to-do list.
But wait – "Do you have anything you need to do?" Grohl asks. I do not. OK, then. Let's go!
Casa Grohl is a two-acre spread on a resplendent Encino, California, hilltop, with sweeping views of the San Fernando Valley. "It used to be all orange groves around here," Grohl says. "And 80 or 90 years ago, it's where a lot of Hollywood actors had weekend homes." This very neighborhood used to belong to Clark Gable. "Now it's maybe the most unhip place to live in Los Angeles."
We hop into Grohl's Tesla, a $140,000 spaceship with Sonic Youth on the stereo, and he heads down the hill, drumming on the steering wheel the entire way. Grohl drums constantly – clapping his hands, tapping his feet, smacking the meaty part of his thigh. It's both unconscious and compulsive, like he'll explode if he doesn't get the rhythm out. "He's always high-energy," says his friend Paul McCartney. "I mean, I'm an enthusiastic person, and I think he's possibly doubled."
Grohl merges onto the 101 and steers us toward Amoeba Records, the legendary Hollywood record store. His middle daughter, Harper, 8, just started learning to play the drums, so he wants to buy her some records to play along to. (He already taught her Queen's "We Will Rock You"; there's a YouTube video of her playing it at a Foos show, one of the more adorable instances of nepotism you'll see.) Harper has requested an Imagine Dragons LP – the girls have been into vinyl since Grohl got them a Beatles box set to "make sure they had some sort of musical foundation before they went straight to fucking Iggy Azalea" – but he's also going to "counter that with a little AC/DC," he says. Even for an eight-year-old, "you can't go wrong with 'Highway to Hell.' "
We pull up to the curb, and Grohl puts some money in the meter and lights a cigarette. (He usually makes it through half a cigarette on the walk from the car to wherever he's going.) At the front door, a manager-type woman says hi and asks if he's here for the show. "No," Grohl says, "I just want to buy a record."
The woman frowns apologetically. "We actually have a Lana Del Rey in-store right now," she says. "I don't know if you can get to the records."
Sure enough, the aisles inside are packed with Lana Del Rey fans. The only section we can reach is the A's. Grohl grabs Highway to Hell, then tries to worm his way to the I's for Imagine Dragons. "Excuse me, sorry," he mutters as he squeezes by, "I'm really sorry ..."
It's by now well-established that Grohl is an avuncular Everydude, someone who "can make a whole stadium feel like he had a beer with every single one of them, and it's not bullshit," drummer Taylor Hawkins says. Grohl is to rock what Tom Hanks is to Hollywood: the head cheerleader, the de facto mayor, and the guy everyone wants to hang with. The Grammys need someone to shred while Deadmau5 fiddles with his laptop? Get Grohl on the phone. The Oscars want a rock star to play acoustic guitar during their "In Memoriam" segment? Just tell Grohl where to put his stool. Your cousin Ronnie's Sabbath cover band has a gig tonight and their drummer had to bail? Text Grohl the address, he'll be there in 20.
But to a store full of teenage Lana Del Rey fans, Grohl is just a long-haired middle-age guy who's in their way. As he works through the crowd, one young woman looks particularly vexed. "Is the store still open?" she asks him pointedly. "They told us it was going to be shut for the next hour."
Grohl looks contrite. "I'm just getting my daughter an Imagine Dragons record," he says.
The girl narrows her eyes. "You should buy her a Lana record," she says.
Grohl smiles and holds up his LP. "I got her AC/DC?"
Even the Foo Fighters know there's nothing especially groundbreaking about the Foo Fighters in 2017. They're arguably the biggest American rock band of the past 20 years, selling out stadiums even as the deck is stacked increasingly against them. "There's no rock music – fucking none," Hawkins says. "Alternative-rock radio just sounds like Men at Work or Kajagoogoo." Hawkins says he recently asked his son, Shane, 10, if any of his friends like rock. Shane said no, only Drake and Lil Yachty. "I get it," Hawkins, at 45 the youngest Foo, says. "Would I have liked a band of 45- and 50-year-olds when I was 17? I'm gonna say no."
Grohl gets it too. "I remember being 26 and saying I'm not gonna do this past 33," he says. "Now I'll be 50 in a year and a half." The baby from the Nevermind cover is now four years older than Grohl was when Nevermind came out. "I never thought I'd end up at a rock festival with fuckin' gray hair in my beard, but it happened," he says. "And I'm cool with it."
When it comes to rock, Grohl is a lifer, a standard-bearer and an evangelist. "I still enjoy going to see new bands," he says. "I think there's a whole new generation just waiting to come out." ("We must seem like Gandalf to them," he adds.) He also still cares about making records – and what's more, making them good. "I've always been afraid of becoming a heritage act," he says. "I feel like we have to prove ourselves over and over to be a band worth following."
When it comes to the music, "our formula is pretty simple," Grohl admits. "When you put us in a room, it sounds like the band. So the challenge is to figure out how that evolves."
At the same time, Hawkins says, their reliability is "one of the reasons we're still here and doing it at the level that we're doing it." They're a known quantity – like Coca-Cola or IBM. "Without sounding too business-y," Hawkins says, "I think we deliver something people can count on: big choruses, guitars and a little bit of screaming."
Outside the record store, Grohl stubs out another half-cigarette. "Actually," he says, "the studio where we made the new record is right down the street. We can stop by if you want."
We head over to EastWest, a studio compound originally built for Frank Sinatra. "We mixed Nirvana Unplugged in here, ages ago," Grohl says as we walk inside. He opens the door to the glorified closet that is Studio 3 and drops his voice to a reverent whisper. "The Pet Sounds room," he says. "Isn't that nuts?"
To oversee Concrete and Gold, the band enlisted producer Greg Kurstin, a pop wizard who's worked with Sia and produced and co-wrote Adele's "Hello." Grohl is a big fan of Kurstin's band the Bird and the Bee, and he hoped Kurstin might bring his flair for harmonies and arrangements. "There's a lot of stuff on this record that's been bouncing around in Dave's head for a long time – the superlayered vocals and countermelodies and all that," says guitarist Chris Shiflett. "It was cool to see Dave let go and have somebody actually produce the record," adds bassist Nate Mendel. "Usually it's tough for him to let go of the reins."
As Hawkins says, "I think it's our most psychedelic record, and our weirdest."
The bandmates hadn't recorded a full album in a big commercial studio since 2002's One by One, so they'd forgotten about the fun of random studio encounters. "You'd walk down the hall, and Lady Gaga would be in the kitchen," Grohl marvels. Lately he's become a big barbecue enthusiast, so he parked his smoker out on the patio and appointed himself pitmaster for the building. "I was cooking for, like, 40 people a night," he says proudly. "I'd be in the middle of a vocal take and be like, 'Fuck, I gotta go check the meat.' " But the socializing paid off, as the Foos pulled all sorts of random guests into their sessions – like Boyz II Men singer Shawn Stockman, whom Grohl bumped into in the parking lot one day. (How did he even recognize Stockman? Grohl shrugs. "Nineties, baby!")
Then there was the day Justin Timberlake dropped by. He listened to what the Foos were doing and liked what he heard, and pretty soon he and Grohl were hanging out regularly. "We'd drink whiskey in the parking lot," Grohl says. "He was really, really cool. Then the night before his last day, he says, 'Can I sing on your record? I don't want to push it, but – I just want to be able to tell my friends.' " So the band had him add some "la la la's" to one track. "He nailed it," Grohl says. "I'm telling you – the guy's going somewhere."
But even that wasn't the Foos' most exciting guest. That honor belongs to Sir Paul McCartney. He and Grohl are buddies – they socialize with their families and have jammed together a few times. So when McCartney had to borrow Kurstin in the middle of the Foos' recording, Grohl decided to call in a favor. He texted McCartney: "Do you want to play drums on one of our new songs?" McCartney's response? "You're crazy, man!"
But to the band's delight, he agreed. "Even if it had been banjo, I think I probably would have showed up," McCartney says. The last time he got a call like that from Grohl was to collaborate on the soundtrack to Grohl's 2013 documentary, Sound City. "I was jamming with these two guys I'd never met," McCartney says. "And then I heard them talking in the studio, and it was like, 'Oh, shit! You guys are fucking Nirvana!' "
"It's inspiring," Grohl says, "because he's still playing for the same reasons we all started playing when we were young. He just wants to jam."
Unsurprisingly, Paul McCartney is a pretty good drummer. "You don't generally think of him as a drummer," Hawkins says. "But he laid that track so fucking effortlessly. He never even heard the song – Dave kind of explained it to him with an acoustic guitar. And he was like, 'Yeah, yeah. I think I know what you're doing.' "
McCartney played two takes; they used the first. "He was so fucking good," Grohl says. "We played for an hour, then took a break and had bagels and tea. I thought we were done – I didn't want to rag him out – so I was out having a cig, and someone goes, 'Hey, Paul wants to jam some more.' He rounded everybody up, and we jammed for hours: 'Let's write some songs, man!' "
"Well, you know," says McCartney. "Once you get the meter running ..."
Last summer, Grohl did as he usually does and went off by himself to put lyrics to the songs. "I Airbnb'd this house on this olive-tree farm in Ojai," a small artist enclave in the foothills outside L.A. "I thought, 'OK, I'm gonna go for five days, bring all these instrumentals and a case of wine, and see if I can come up with something.' "
A week before Grohl left, Donald Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination. "I'm not an outwardly political person," says Grohl. "But it's pretty easy to figure out where I fall on the map."
Soon Grohl found himself in his underwear, wine-drunk, screaming nonsense phonetics into a microphone. Subconsciously, a lot of his political anxieties came out. One song, "La Dee Da," channeled the feelings of a teenage Grohl, a lonely punk-rock kid in suburban Virginia. "It's a portrait of me as a teenager, feeling completely alienated and repressed by the conservative environment of the early to mid-Eighties," he says. The album's opening track, "T-Shirt," came after Trump's inauguration, but it shared some of the same concerns. "I watched the infamous press conference in the East Room – the one that turned into a screaming match. The fucking WWE one. All that gross ambition for power and control freaked me out. I was like, 'Oh, my God. This is what we've become.' "
That said, if you didn't know the backstory, there's nothing explicitly political about the album. "When the Foo Fighters go out and tour, we play to everyone," he says. "I like to think that music is something that can bring two opposite sides of the spectrum into the same arena for three hours of relief. There's a part of me that thinks I'm better at giving people hope. So that's where I'd rather be."
Back outside, Grohl eases the Tesla onto a quiet side street. "I haven't shown you how fast this car is yet, have I?" He presses a few buttons on the touch screen and puts the car into something called ludicrous mode. "It doesn't have a combustion engine – it's just magnets or whatever," he says. "So it goes zero-to-60 in 2.4 seconds. It's fucking insane. It feels like this."
Suddenly he punches the accelerator, and the car launches forward like an F-16 from a catapult. Grohl laughs. He floors it again, and we scream. "It's impractical!" he says. "It really is the stupidest thing."
Anyway: On to the next stop. Grohl's mom has been renovating her kitchen, and he's been meaning to go see it. He takes out his phone and calls her: "Whassup, Mom!" She says there's been a setback – someone measured the sink wrong. "Oh, crap," says Grohl. "Well, we're just running dumb errands. We'll swing by."
However cool you think Grohl is, Virginia Hanlon Grohl is approximately 37 times cooler. A former English teacher, she raised Grohl and his sister mostly on her own after divorcing Grohl's dad (a Republican speechwriter and campaign manager) when Dave was six. She made ends meet with off-hours jobs at a department store and a carpet-cleaning service; now retired, she recently published her first book at the age of 79 – a collection of interviews with the mothers of other famous musicians (Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine, Dr. Dre) called From Cradle to Stage. "My mother is now fully entrenched in the music industry," Grohl says, laughing. "She'll be like, 'I can't talk – I have a conference call with Live Nation!' "
We pull up to her house, a bungalow not far from Grohl's place, and he taps out "Shave and a Haircut" on her front door. "What's up, Mama!" he says when she answers.
She ushers us into the living room. "Would you guys like a Diet Coke?" she asks. She returns with two cans and takes a seat next to Grohl on the sofa.
"Did you have a nice dinner last night?" she asks him. "I feel so bad."
Apparently Grohl called and asked her to babysit, but she already had plans. "Don't feel bad!" he says. "I called you on, like, an hour's notice. It was totally fine."
"But you just sent me to Italy for my birthday," she says. "And I had the best time of my whole life. ..."
Grohl turns to me. "My mom's 80th birthday is next month, so we got a place in Tuscany for a week."
"It was a castle!" Mrs. Grohl says. "All for us." She says it was an incredible trip, although they did get stopped by Foo Fighters fans a lot. "But you were wonderful to everybody," she says. "Because we were drinking wine."
She asks what we've been up to today, and Grohl tells her about the record store and EastWest. "What's that?" she asks.
"The studio we recorded at?" says Grohl. He looks a little hurt. "Supportive mother!"
"Well, heck, it took me three months to get in," she says. "It was a closed session!"
"Mom!" says Grohl. "What are you talking about? Don't tell people that!"
Grohl's mom used to be a singer herself, in a high school vocal group called the Three Belles. When her only son wanted to drop out of high school at 17 – the same high school where Mrs. Grohl taught, no less – to tour Europe with his punk band Scream, she was nothing but supportive. "Musicians are the most fun people," she says. "And they work harder than anyone in the world."
"Hmm," says a skeptical Grohl. "You think?"
"They're all complete workaholics," she insists. "You. Dre. Pharrell." A pause. "Maybe not Adam Levine." Grohl cracks up.
Then Mrs. Grohl tells a story. "When David was born, they took me into the delivery room when it was time, and there were all these guys standing around," she says. "All new ... whatever you call them when they're in the last stage of becoming doctors." Apparently these new residents had yet to see a baby delivered. "So when he was born," she says, "they all burst into applause. I didn't think about that until years later, when I had this epiphany: 'Oh, my God. That's the first sound he ever heard.' "
Grohl smiles. "Let's keep moving."
Grohl grabs an espresso at the coffee shop on the corner, then decides to swing by Studio 606, the band's studio-slash-headquarters since 2005. We walk through the massive warehouse garage, filled with dozens of guitars, as well as the giant shield that Grohl got for his birthday at Medieval Times. ("They knighted me!" he says.) We go inside, where the walls are lined with 25 years of memories, posters and platinum plaques from Foo Fighters and Nirvana.
In hindsight, it's easy to forget how unlikely it is that Foo Fighters became a thing. After Nirvana ended, it seemed like Grohl, the happy-go-lucky drummer, might never get out of their shadow. But to hear the band tell it, Grohl's time in Nirvana made him the successful frontman he is today. "He learned so much that he was able to use to escape a lot of mistakes," says Smear, his bandmate in Nirvana as well as the Foos. "I watched it happen with Foo Fighters – like, 'Oh, I know why you're doing this: Because Nirvana did it and it was good!' or 'I know why you're not doing this: Because Nirvana did it and it was bad!' "
Grohl calls the three years from 1991 to 1994 "a crash course in the danger of a band becoming so popular so quickly." "When the Foo Fighters started," he says, "we made some pretty clear decisions about what to do and what not to do." On the to-do list? "Go out and play some shows. Start from the ground up." And the not-to-do list? Grohl laughs ruefully. "I mean ... heroin?"
Nearly a quarter-century into their career, the Foos are not just a stadium-filling rock band; they're a fixture in the firmament. So what's the secret? According to the Foos, a few things.
For one, they've been consistent. They've never broken up, never dramatically changed their sound – just cranked out good albums every two or three years. "A lot of people don't know this, but we've never had a big, successful record," Mendel says. Their bestselling album, from back when people still bought albums, was 1997's The Colour and the Shape, which sold around 2 million copies. (Comparative data point: Creed's My Own Prison, released the same year, sold 6 million.) "The success the band's had, we've been able to grow with it over time," Mendel says. "It never overwhelmed us."
In their first few years together, there were divorces, lineup changes, near-breakups and Hawkins' 2001 heroin overdose, which put him in a coma for two weeks. "We went through a lot of crazy periods with our band early on," Hawkins admits. But since then, it's been pretty smooth sailing. "I'm not saying that I can't piss Dave off, or Dave can't bum me out – Dave can hurt my feelings more than anyone else in the world," says Hawkins, who's now sober. "But there's not an evil, out-to-get-you vibe. It's more sibling-like."
Grohl has also been good about making sure the Foos never felt like a backing band. To wit: The group shares all publishing revenue equally. (Contrast this with Kurt Cobain, who renegotiated Nirvana's contracts to retroactively give himself a bigger share.) "I think Dave learned that this is the way to keep a band happy and feeling like a band," Smear says. "He's naturally a generous person – but he also gets that there's an upside."
(As Hawkins puts it, "He was a fucking drummer, man! I think because he was in that back seat, he knows how we'd feel if we were treated badly.")
And finally – if perhaps contradictorily – there's no doubting whose band it is. "This band works because it's not a democracy," says Shiflett. "People can read into that what they want – but it's a big reason why the band hasn't broken up."
"It's a benign dictatorship," says Hawkins. "I've learned to keep my mouth shut until Dave's really looking for input."
Grohl prefers to think of the band more as a family. "I mean, I know at the end of the day it's my name at the bottom of the check," he says. "But we all hold different responsibilities that keep the thing fucking going."
Next door, the band is in the middle of building Studio 607, a multimedia complex with editing suites and a screening room where Grohl can do post-production work on his growing body of TV and film projects (which include Sound City and the 2014 HBO series Sonic Highways). He has a lot of plans: He wants to make a documentary about tour vans and Eighties indie-rock culture, and he's been working with a Hollywood producer to develop a feature film, which he would direct. "But I don't have a lot of time to branch off and do those projects that I love when I'm doing Foo Fighters stuff," he says. "So I have to kind of choose my battles."
Which raises an important point. All the Foos have side projects to scratch whatever creative itch the band doesn't fulfill. But of all the side gigs, Grohl's are invariably the coolest. When he's playing at the Oscars or jamming with former members of Led Zeppelin, doesn't the rest of the band get bummed?
"Every once in a while, you do get a little hissy," Hawkins says. "Like, 'Why wasn't I involved in this?' But [former Police drummer] Stewart Copeland, who's one of my heroes, said something really great to me once. I was upset about something – I won't tell you what exactly – so I called Stewart. And he goes, 'Taylor, Taylor, Taylor. You live in a nice house, don't you? You get to do shit that you like? Make your solo records? Right. You haven't texted anyone yet, have you? You haven't called anyone? Good. Don't. Dave's a good guy. You've got a good thing going. Just go for a mountain bike ride, and it'll all seem like nothing.' "
Hawkins smiles. "Wise, sage advice."
It's getting late, so we start making our way back to Grohl's house. When we get there, Ophelia is napping, so we tiptoe upstairs, through the girls' playroom (wagons, bunk beds, toy guitars) and into Grohl's office, where three high shelves crammed with Grammys and VMAs are the only trace of rock star in the house. We sit out on the balcony (where Grohl says he once saw a UFO), and he lights another cigarette, then notices something on the ground. "Whoa," he says. "There's a fucking dead bird, man!"
He crouches down and, with a dad's nonchalance, tosses it into the bushes. "Ugh," he says. "Dead birrrrd. I'm glad my kids didn't find that."
In October, the band is plotting Cal Jam, an homage to an identically named 1974 festival that featured Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Earth, Wind and Fire. The original, held at an auto track east of L.A., drew more than a quarter-million fans. "That speedway aesthetic just seemed so cool," Grohl says. "This skeleton stage in the midday heat, and a bunch of shirtless dudes with Michelob bottles and sunburns and jean shorts." The closest they could come was an amphitheater in San Bernardino, where they'll headline a lineup including Queens of the Stone Age, Liam Gallagher and Cage the Elephant. "A lot of them are drinking buddies. And some I've never met," Grohl says. "I can't wait. It's gonna be fucking fun."
I ask if there was anyone they tried to book and couldn't. Grohl falls uncommonly silent. "You know," he says after several seconds. "We wanted to have Soundgarden. They had agreed to do it. And, um ..." His voice catches. "It didn't happen."
Chris Cornell had been a friend of Grohl's since their Seattle grunge days. "I loved him," Grohl says, voice breaking. "He was a really sweet guy. Full of life. And he had so much to offer. That one hurt," he says through tears. "Over the years you sort of count your blessings that you survived, and when you see another one go down ..."
The nature of Cornell's death dredged up particularly painful memories for Grohl, who knows what it means to lose a bandmate to suicide. "I felt for his family," he says. "And I felt for his ..." He chokes up again. "And I felt for his band, you know? Because that's a long road, man."
Grohl is quiet a long time. "Every time it happens, the same feeling comes up," he says. "It's shocking and confusing and I just don't get it. You get into this with a love of music, and sharing it with people, and you hope everybody feels the same way. I know it's more complicated than that ... but, fuck. It just sucks."
Just then, a car pulls up in the driveway below us. It's Grohl's wife, Jordyn, and Harper, home from camp. He stands up, sniffling. "But, yeah," he says. "I've always felt like the most important thing is just to get home safe. You just gotta keep on keeping on." He starts down the stairs, wiping away tears as he goes.
Downstairs, Ophelia is awake from her nap and watching The Boss Baby on the couch. Harper is in the kitchen, waiting for Grohl. (His oldest daughter, Violet, 11, went to a friend's house.) He steps off the stairs and gives her a high-five. "I said what's up!" he says.
"I said what's up!" Harper answers.
Grohl hugs and kisses Jordyn, then turns back to Harper. "How was camp?" he asks. "Was it the old-people makeup today?"
"No, that was yesterday," she says. "Today I did the Mad Hatter and a dog."
"Really?" he says, excited. "Was it cool?"
"Yeah!" she says.
Today their Labradoodle, Penny, has a birthday, so they got her a doggie cupcake with a "2" on it and some birthday hats. Ophelia runs around trying to put a hat on Penny, giggling, while Harper puts one on her forehead and pretends to be a unicorn. Finally the dog is wrangled, and everyone gathers around her to sing "Happy Birthday." Afterward, Ophelia blows out the candle in her face, and Penny runs off with the cupcake. Grohl smiles, happy to have a full house.
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Ik heb hem één keer geluisterd, Run en La Dee Da beste nummers, verder niet echt heel geweldig. Een paar nummers die me doen denken aan IYH en ESP&G albums.quote:
Ik weet niet wat ik hier van vind nog. Niet onder de indruk tot nu toe, maar nog een paar luisterbeurten geven sowieso.
Ik ga er dinsdag heen en daarna door naar het concert.
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Ik ga er dinsdag heen en daarna door naar het concert.
Op Spotify!
Zitten een paar aardige nummers tussen maar als geheel vind ik 'm niet zo denderend.
Sunday Rain had zo een nummer van The Eagles kunnen zijn.
Ik had geen verwachtingen.quote:
Ik vind het een heerlijk album. Weet niet wat jullie allemaal verwachtte maar ik vind het goed
Awesome. Waar ?quote:
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Ladies and gentlemen, Foo Faaidurs!