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Artist News
Grohl discusses new Foos
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 24 March 2010
Dave Grohl has been speaking some more about the next Foo Fighters album, the recording of which is set to get underway once the musician has got his commitments to Them Crooked Vultures out of the way. The album, as Grohl has previously said (though I don’t think we ever reported on it), will be produced by Butch Vig, who, of course, produced Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album.
Speaking about working with Vig again, Grohl told BBC Newsbeat: “It’s the first album the two of us have made together in 20 years. There’s something that Butch does that helps a song become a bigger song. At this point I just want to rock”.
Grohl added that he plans to record the album in his garage, just as soon as he’s cleared the “junk and a refrigerator” out of the way. He said: “The way you make an album dictates the way it sounds. One of my favourite [Foo Fighters] records was our third one, which we made in my basement in Virginia. We had sleeping bags that we nailed on the wall for soundproofing. The general vibe on that record is really comfortable. I’d go upstairs and make chilli and come downstairs and do a vocal on a couch. It’s the same idea. To me it’s about switching up the process; we’ve been using Pro Tools and all that computer stuff the last couple of records. We’re putting that stuff in the closet and getting our old tape machines out so that we can just do it like we used to do it”.
