“I think about Kurt every day, and I miss him,” Grohl adds quietly, measuring his words carefully. “And I realize that I miss him. But at the same time things keep going, and I’ve got to make sure that things keep moving for me. I don’t know if this band makes anyone else feel better — I just know I have to do it for myself. I have to feel like I’m moving forward.”
Grohl’s only vice, it seems, is his need to manipulate the tide of his band’s popularity to better manufacture an organic feel. To establish a grass-roots theme, Foo Fighters held their inaugural show as a keg party in a friend’s bedroom. Thus baptized, Foo Fighters hit the road this spring as the opening act for Mike Watt before their album was released. After the LP’s release, the band bypassed filming a video for their first single, “This Is a Call.
What Grohl is most comfortable with is recording songs. He’s been doing it since he was 19, and the 12 songs onwere chosen from more than 30 that Grohl had written during the past six years. “Most people would think that all these songs were written starting the day after Kurt died,” says Grohl, back on the highway, his Denver fling a memory. “Everyone wants so badly to make some kind of correlation. I’ve taken heat for a lot of lyrics I wrote four years ago.
“It’s just a very negative song about feeling you were violated or deprived,” says Grohl, who declines to address the subject of Love. So there’s no one in mind? Grohl smirks. “,” he says. He expels a muffled laugh, turns to stare out the window and falls silent as the wind whips relentlessly against the side of the van and the road runs endlessly underneath his feet.
“Krist and I kept in touch, and we would get together and talk, make sure we were each doing OK,” says Grohl. “Eventually, very slowly, things got back to a more normal pace. Everything changed, and it’s going to take a long time to get used to that.” It is perhaps an attempt to tap into this extraterrestrial need that the specter of alien visitation continually hovers around the Foo Fighters’ van. The name itself is World War II slang for UFOs. The band’s own label is called Roswell, after a New Mexico town and the site of a reputed alien landing in the ’40s. And the album cover features a Buck Rogers disintegrator pistol.
Grohl considers Smear the essential element of Foo Fighters because of his proficiency as an editor in Grohl’s songwriting process and his ability to provide comic relief in the van. Grohl is asked to assess each of his current band members. He pauses and laughs. “Hmm … Pat is definitely the star of the show,” Grohl says. “He’s the focal point of the band, and everyone looks up to him.” He pauses. “William makes things exciting.
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Who Cares....The Foo Fighters Suck .Top 40 Corparate Radio Rock Garbage 😝
Wow, I’m old!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame elligible !
Good Grief, George! I'm Exhausted, but I'll Stick Around because This Is A Call For All the Cows to go Floaty down to the Wattershed. Even though I may be Alone or an Easy Target, Big Me is X-Static. Weenie Beenie
RRHoF!!
I guess they stuck around. 🤓
Thank you foo fighters for protecting us from the foo for 25 years now.
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