The video, directed by Wayne Isham, is a ‘life on the road” clip. The song is the third single from Foo Fighters seventh album ‘Wasting Light’.
NME’s annual Cool List is published today and Dave Grohl is #12. Which according to the tastemakers at NME makes him half as cool as Lana Del Ray (#6), way cooler than Liam Gallagher (#50), not quite as cool as Arctic Monkey’s drummer Matt Helder (#9) but slightly cooler than Artic Monkey’s Alec Turner (#14). WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? Well, nothing – but here’s the piece:
On shelves now & priced at $7.99 ‘Guitar One presents: Foo Fighters’ is a one-shot magazine containing:
· Dear Guitar Hero: Dave Grohl and Chris Shiflett answer readers’ questions.
· Absolutely Foobulous: Dave Grohl and Pat Smear talk rock fashion, reminisce about Nirvana and praise the Foo Fighters’ 1997 group effort, The Colour and the Shape.
· The Foo Chain: A Foo Fighters axology.
· Smear Campaign: The life and times of punk survivor Pat Smear.
· True Foo: Dave Grohl rejects the glitz of Hollywood and heads home to Virginia to record the Foo Fighters’ soul-searching third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
· Man of Steel: Dave Grohl says goodbye to rock and roll and hello to heavy metal with his smashing project, Probot.
· Honor Society: After a two-year binge of side projects and guest performances, Dave Grohl returns to the Foo Fighters fold for the double album In Your Honor.
· Top Flight: Combine Led Zeppelin’s blues-inspired riff rock with Nirvana’s post-punk aesthetic and the stoner metal sounds of Queens of the Stone Age. What do you get? Them Crooked Vultures, featuring John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
· Fighting Form: Foo Fighters are back in action with a three-guitar lineup and a hard-hitting, bone-crunching album, Wasting Light. Guitar World weighs in with Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.
Get it in stores or pick it up from Future Publishing’s website HERE
After Daltrey and Taylor now Foo Fighters can add Waters to their list of classic rock collaborations with musicians called Roger.
Watch Foo Fighters and Roger Waters perform Pink Floyd’s ’In The Flesh’ on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
This month Q is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary and Dave Grohl features on one of the 25 covers to mark the event.
Inside the issue Dave and the other 24 cover stars discuss ‘the music that changed my life’.
The magazine goes on sale on September 27th but you can pre-order Dave’s cover HERE or any of the other covers via qthemusic.com while stocks last.
The nice people at Harper Collins have given FooArchive some copies of ‘This Is A Call – The Life and Times of Dave Grohl’ signed by the author Paul Brannigan to give away. The book is published on September 29th and you can purchase it on Amazon.
Having already read the book I can confirm it’s totally unparalleled as far as Dave biographies go, so if you’d like to win a copy (UK only – sorry!) then:
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Winners will be chosen randomly on Friday and recieve an e-mail/tweet to ask for their address. Again, the contest is only open to UK residents… but if your overseas and can use a relative’s address – go for it.
This Is a CallThe Life and Times of Dave Grohl ‘Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.’ He has sold over 40 million albums. He’s been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He’s the nicest guy in rock.From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of the life and times of Dave Grohl.In 1990, little-known punk-metal upstarts Nirvana added a new drummer to the band. They were soon to become a global phenomenon – but as we all know, things went wrong. Dave's friend Kurt, frontman of Nirvana, took his own life, plunging the band and their future into chaos. His friends’ grief was mirrored by worldwide sorrow to an unprecedented degree.Defying expectations, a knack that was soon to become his trademark, Grohl refused to see it as the end. In 1995 his new band, the Foo Fighters, rose to join the pantheon of rock deities.The 'wonder years' were by no means calm. The spotlit existence imposed by his celebrity status, the bellowed vilification by his critics and his high-speed lifestyle proved a dangerous cocktail.With an account of Grohl’s life that is more personal than anything written before, more startling, more thrilling, more heart-rending and more inspiring, Paul Brannigan reveals Dave fully for the first time.This is the story of the man who changed music forever.
When grunge classic Nevermind is reissued for it’s 20th anniversary in September it promises to take fans to a different kind of Nirvana entirely. But, Dave Grohl has warned NME, the deluxe and super-deluxe versions really will mean the end of the story.
On his recent whirlwind visit to the UK, Grohl sat down with NME to reveal his plans for the landmark anniversary. Getting the package to bulge sufficiently was, he admits, a stretch.
“Unfortunately Nirvana didn’t have enough time to record album after album after album of unreleased material so we really have to try to find things in the vaults that become really special. For a hardcore Nirvana fan, the unreleased stuff is usually a welcome surprise in that ‘collectors’ type of vibe. But at this point I think whenever we release something, It’s most important that it shines a true light on the legacy of the band.”
Two decades and a stadium rock career all of his own since Nevermind changed the musical landscape forever, Grohl readily admits that Nevermind has become something beyond the control and comprehension of even he, a man who eats stadiums for a living.
“After Kurt died and the band was finished, it sort of become something else, you know? It’s different now from what it was, it represents something that sometimes I don’t really recognise.”
Grohl was keen to play down his involvement. He said: “Krist Novoselic, I really believe, was just as much an architect in Nirvana as Kurt, because Krist has a certain mentality and aesthetic that is entirely Nirvana. So whenever I think of Nirvana I don’t just think about Kurt, and I don’t just thunk about Teen Spirit. The identity is so much deeper than that and deeper in its chaotic fucking bizarre world that we were surrounded by and lived inside.”
Instead Grohl remembers the band as a bunch of redneck weirdos “The sense of humour that the band shared, nobody really else had and people just thought we were weird. There were a few bands that Nirvana felt akin to, like the guys in Mudhoney or the guys in Frogs or a lot of the Olympia bands and Mark Lanegan. But it was this really bizarre sort of redneck-meets-subculture vibe. The two of them grew up in a really small logging town so to hear them talk about their childhood, it was some Twin Peaks shit, it was some backwards logging town shit. But you’ve got Krist, who was totally politically motivated and then you’ve got Kurt who was just such a brilliant artist, that it was that weird conflict or dichotomy or whatever it is. Those two things shouldn’t really co-exist in a way, so whenever something is released, usually to me it’s only authentic it comes from Krist. He still maintains that spirit. We haven’t changed too much as people, a lot has happened but we’re still the same. He hasn’t changed a bit so to hear him speak or to hear him tell stories or to hear him talk about Nirvana, it really brings back the feeling of being in the band because it’s just a part of his soul.”
“We’ve talked a lot about what to do this coming September to make it special for kids, and you’d be surprised at some of the things we talked about doing.” Grohl snarls with his trademark toothy grin, the tease. “and it will probably draw a lot of attention. It’ll be fun.”
Two ‘instrument specific’ publications currently have Foo Fighters covers.
Nate is on the current Bass Player cover (AugUST 2011) while Modern Drummer (September 2011) features Taylor Hawkins:
Check out a gallery of the past 16 years worth of Foo Fighters covers HERE
Today’s NME features Dave on the cover along with a full round-up of T In The Park. Here’s what NME had to say:
And here’s what the crowd thought:
