The Foo F-ilosophy- A Tribute To A Decade Under The Influence
About a month ago I went to the Foo Fighters homepage looking up info and found out the new album is coming out in June. I got the first single "The Best Of You" from iTunes with a free credit of mine. The classic Foo sound on the albums The Colour and the Shape and There Is Nothing Left To Lose stick out in my mind as some of the best songs and best sounding tracks of mainstream modern rock. Their last album shyed away from that going to a more heavy, distorted sound, but they've gone back to their classic sound. I personally can't wait until the double album is released. In all this, frontman Dave Grohl put a message on their website. Here is just a small bit.
"It [the album In Your Honor] will surprise you. It surprises me. Almost a year in the making, from 5 hours of bedroom demos, to warehouses being built from the ground up, to months of rehearsals, to the construction of an 8,000 square foot classic recording studio, to the recording of 40 songs, to the final track list of 20 songs, it is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life.
There are subtleties. There are complexities. There are extremities. There are familiarities. There is orchistration. There is simplicity. There is a pile of blown speakers on the floor. Never before have we ever put so much effort into the making of an album. 1st record- 6 days. 2nd record- 2 months. 3rd record- 3 or 4 months (but mostly just drinking and BBQ) 4th record- 2 and a half weeks. 5th record- writing, rehearsing, recording = 9 months. You can decide for yourselves. There are a few guests. They may seem strange to you. They don't seem strange to me. I just love music. Music can be faceless. It can be nameless. After all, it's the sound that makes your hair stand on end, right? It will."
-- Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
These guys put a lot of effort into the album. What especially hit me was the last couple of sentences. I too love music, as long as it's rock or blues or jazz. Although I really hope that his guests are not rap artists; the world doesn't need another Run DMC/Aerosmith song or Jay-Z/Linkin Park. What we do need is a rebirth of classic blues, and uptempo jazz as well as better modern rock. I will admit I like the blues and jazz stuff, not only because the songs get you in a good mood but also because they are intricately written. Plus it was this stuff that really created rock-n-roll when mixed together.
Dave's philosophy is one that is ingenious, but only to an extent. I mean as long as the music can create that mood of out-of-this-world ness, then yeah, it can be whatever, whether you're into rock, jazz, etc.. I'm currently writing songs, most are a more alternative rock sound, some are a pop/punk/alternative, and some are harder. The sad thing is that now, if you are a band and release an album in one genre, people expect more of the same. That's probably why Dave started the band Probot which the singer from Motorhead was in. They are a hard rock band, while Foo Fighters are a more mainstream alternative. Grohl was also the drummer in Nirvana, probably the greatest grunge band of all time. He has music ambition and keeps putting out gold. The Foo Fighters music is timeless, and they are one of my top 10 bands.
ROCK ON THROUGH TIME
"It [the album In Your Honor] will surprise you. It surprises me. Almost a year in the making, from 5 hours of bedroom demos, to warehouses being built from the ground up, to months of rehearsals, to the construction of an 8,000 square foot classic recording studio, to the recording of 40 songs, to the final track list of 20 songs, it is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life.
There are subtleties. There are complexities. There are extremities. There are familiarities. There is orchistration. There is simplicity. There is a pile of blown speakers on the floor. Never before have we ever put so much effort into the making of an album. 1st record- 6 days. 2nd record- 2 months. 3rd record- 3 or 4 months (but mostly just drinking and BBQ) 4th record- 2 and a half weeks. 5th record- writing, rehearsing, recording = 9 months. You can decide for yourselves. There are a few guests. They may seem strange to you. They don't seem strange to me. I just love music. Music can be faceless. It can be nameless. After all, it's the sound that makes your hair stand on end, right? It will."
-- Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
These guys put a lot of effort into the album. What especially hit me was the last couple of sentences. I too love music, as long as it's rock or blues or jazz. Although I really hope that his guests are not rap artists; the world doesn't need another Run DMC/Aerosmith song or Jay-Z/Linkin Park. What we do need is a rebirth of classic blues, and uptempo jazz as well as better modern rock. I will admit I like the blues and jazz stuff, not only because the songs get you in a good mood but also because they are intricately written. Plus it was this stuff that really created rock-n-roll when mixed together.
Dave's philosophy is one that is ingenious, but only to an extent. I mean as long as the music can create that mood of out-of-this-world ness, then yeah, it can be whatever, whether you're into rock, jazz, etc.. I'm currently writing songs, most are a more alternative rock sound, some are a pop/punk/alternative, and some are harder. The sad thing is that now, if you are a band and release an album in one genre, people expect more of the same. That's probably why Dave started the band Probot which the singer from Motorhead was in. They are a hard rock band, while Foo Fighters are a more mainstream alternative. Grohl was also the drummer in Nirvana, probably the greatest grunge band of all time. He has music ambition and keeps putting out gold. The Foo Fighters music is timeless, and they are one of my top 10 bands.
ROCK ON THROUGH TIME
posted by Anonymous at 5/17/2005 11:28:00 PM
14 Comments:
Is grunge another name for slob
nirvana kicked ass. i can only imagine what more they could have done, much like i can only dream of the music Hendrix could have bestowed upon the masses, or what Keith Moon would do on the drums.
the whole grunge music revolution of the early 90s is what killed the 80s metal movement.
You do know that Metalica is played
to torture inmates at Gitmo. The Jihadis think it is Satanic.
i think i would agree with you because the F.F.'s songs kick ass, they seem to have more fun doing it, and you can listen to them anytime. nirvana has good stuff, but every time i listen to them i gotta be in the mood for it. plus Grohl is a better vocalist than Cobain.
I believe that foo fighters was the name that WW2 pilots gave UFOs.
if that is true, then that is awesome. i thought they just pulled that name out of thin air the whole time.
Dredging up from my mental storehouse of seldom relevant information:
When the pilots first noticed them, and evidently they were relatively common; the upper echelons thought they might be a secret weapon. That caused quite a scare because they would shadow the planes and sometimes approach close enough to circle.
After some investigation, they decided that it wasn't some Axis weapon but they had no idea what they were. The pilots reported that they were small, round globes of light that could change direction at impossible angles and reach incredible speed.
Different theories were offered, (reflection from water or clouds, ball lightning etc.) and rejected by the pilots.
Evidently, word came down the chain of command that any pilot or crew that reported them was getting a psych examination. The pilots quit reporting them but still talked about them among themselves. They called them, Foo Fighters.
I don't know what significance the name, Foo Fighters, held for the pilots.
That's the story as I remember it.
crop circle stories are garbage. people will do anything for fame.
Elijah,
Its not really a secret.
I've developed a unified (spook) field theory to explain them all. :^)
I agree with Drummaster, crop circles are a bunch of crap.
I need to tell you about my buddy Johnny's abduction. The evidence is overwhelming, he was either abducted by aliens or he just thought they were aliens, after he smoked all of that opium laced hashish. Of course if it was the hash, he must have stumbled into a gay orgy.
On a serious note, yes I'm fasicinated by the unexplained and unexplainable. I've had several things happen to me. (Non-UFO related)
Warren, I too am a fan in the unexplained. I saw a show on TV about abductees making claims about waking up and seeing aliens and not being able to move. Researchers were comparing it to sleep paralysis, which puts people in a state of non-motion, but being fully aware of what is going on around them. They also said some things about slight image distortion. As for UFO's I personally believe I have have seen one, and I do believe that aliens/intelligent beings on other galaxies than ours do exist.
Drummaster, the history of these evens go back much further than WW2 than most people would have you think. It seems that strange things have always flown across and fell from the sky.
There is a public domain book in Project Gutenberg named The Book of the Damned by Charles Hoy Fort.
It was first published in 1919 and gives many newspaper accounts and their sources. The language is stilted and formal and Mr Fort's ideas seem quaint by today's standards, but it provides much food for thought.
You might find it interesting and many of the accounts are eerily similar to latter day accounts.
While you are there you might want to look around at some of the other offerings. There are over 15,000 e books, many are famous works no longer in print from all genera.
you have obviously researched this way more than i have. quick question, do you believe that there is a government conspiracy covering up the whole thing? Maybe its because of the X-Files and Men In Black.
Yes and no. I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, more of a policy. The government knows more than it lets on and covers up stories about events that happen at military bases but actually knows very little.
I read an official report about events at Malmstrom Air Force Base/Minuteman base that happened in 1975. Then later I read a report from a UFO group and later still a report released under the Freedom of Information Act in 1978-81 HERE
The first official report chalked everything up to computer and weather problems. The report from the UFO group sensationalized the incident with UFOs landing and aliens running around the base.
The problem was that I used to play poker and work with a guy that was working Airforce Security, (enlisted guy), on that base at the time the events took place. He told me what happened before I looked up the reports and his story fell somewhere in the middle of the first two reports.
Yes there were UFOs. (Lids blew off the Minuteman silos, which wasn't in any of the reports). They didn't land and fighters were scrambled to intercept but they couldn't get a radar lock and the UFOs left them like they were sitting still.
What I found most interesting was that there was a similar incident that happened at the same base in 1967. I ran across it looking for the 1975 incident.
There is a problem when we deal with human beings. Our perceptions of reality are not the same. When faced with something we have no reference for in our daily existence, we trend to relate it to something we know or have heard about. UFOs may not be vehicles at all, at least not in the way we think of a vehicle.
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