Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #9

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Is the bass or anything doing

a note coming out of...

Is there anything like that?

Is that gonna, do you want one?

- You know what I mean?

- I'd maybe not do that.

Don't do that.

That was very non-confrontational.

"Maybe don't do that. "

I would maybe not ever do that in the song.

I'm the guy that plays the rhythm

straight up the middle.

And then you have Chris,

and Chris has a really sharp and clean sense

of melodic playing.

Then over here, there's Pat.

And it's like...

when Pat puts on a guitar it just goes...

All of those things... If they're balanced

it sounds like the Foo Fighters.

Did we finally get too grungy?

It's never too grungy! I wonder if it's just,

you're losing, like, the notes.

We've had this expanded band now

for the last couple albums.

As a musician, it's a dream to

be able to play with as many people

and do as many different

things as you can.

So where should we start?

What do you wanna start with?

We gotta get Bob f***in'

rockin' and rollin'.

What am I doing here?

I just learned the song, I got it in my head.

What do you want me to do?

When you meet someone that really helped

you become the musician that you are,

I really think it's important

to acknowledge that.

Bob's voice is so signature,

and to have him come to my f***in' house

and do it on my f***in' record

blows me away.

All right, cool.

You wanna do the bridge?

What do you wanna do, Bob?

Come on in.

I didn't write the middle section of the song,

because I wanted to write it with Bob,

while Bob was there.

But I didn't have the words,

so I sort of explained it,

and we tried it once just with phonetic crap.

Is that gonna make sense?

I think so.

OK, let me write something really quick.

OK, five-minute lyrics.

OK, give me a five-minute lyric break.

Clock's runnin'.

Dad?

Yeah?

Remember you said you'll swim?

I know, I have to write these words

really quick, so I can go sing it.

OK.

OK.

One, two, you know what to do...

That sounds so good!

That is so f***ing cool, you guys!

You can hear, it's really good.

Some of the songs

still had question marks, you know,

the biggest song being

I Should Have Known.

That song became sort of the X factor

in the album.

Yep, that's cool.

F***in' A, right?

I kinda feel like I Should Have Known

is a song that's about Dave's past,

and I think there are definitely references

in there about Nirvana and Kurt.

F***in' A, man.

That's really good.

When I first started writing that song,

it was about someone else

that I was involved with,

and at the end of the day,

I said to myself,

"I should have known

that this was gonna happen. "

But when I sing that song,

it's hard not to think about

all of the times in my life that's happened.

Hey, Krist!

Hello!

We had Krist Novoselic come in and play bass

on I Should Have Known.

That was a very special moment,

'cause I had not been in the same room

with Dave and Krist

since we finished Nevermind.

It does that back and forth twice,

then it does the turnaround chords.

Yeah, it goes, D sharp,

G, D sharp, G, F, C,

then it goes back in D sharp,

G, D sharp...

It's like a six chord.

So it goes...

How was the tone?

I think it f***in' sounds gnarly.

There, it's done. Seriously.

That's all you get, motherf***er.

I was not surprised that Dave asked Krist

to play on the record.

I was surprised it hadn't happened

any other time in the last 16 years.

You never realize how important

the bass sound is to the sound of a band

until you put it in another band and go,

"Oh, there it is. "

I think what Krist played on the song

was the absolute perfect thing for him to do

on a Foo Fighters record.

I think that might be the ending.

We've found it.

Yeah, sample my phone.

The ice cream truck.

It usually takes us a while to name an album.

But I decided to call the record

Wasting Light,

because I honestly feel like

I don't wanna let one minute of this go

without really feeling it.

The best way to prepare to playing

to 85,000 people

is to play at these small club gigs.

Because that's kind of a true test.

You go to see an arena rock band.

They're pretty good,

but would they be any good at the Roxy?

Hold the f***in'...

Then bask in the glory for a minute.

Having Scream be the first band on the bill,

my heroes from my childhood,

the band that

I dropped out of high school to join,

to see them sharing the stage

with my band Foo Fighters

was a really big deal to me.

Yeah, good night, y'all.

Thank you.

You guys wanna hear the new record?

The Foo Fighters

sound like the Foo Fighters

because it's me, and Taylor, and Nate,

and Chris, and Pat.

If it were anyone else, it would sound different.

You never wanna lose anybody,

and you never wanna see someone

disappear out of your life,

but we wouldn't be here

if it were different with William.

We wouldn't be here

if it were different with Franz.

I feel bad about the bad things,

I feel good about the good things,

but I wouldn't change a thing.

We've worked hard,

and we've made a great band.

I'm incapable of doing

almost anything else

at this point in time,

so this is what I do.

I'm an adult that plays in a rock band.

How about that?

I've had people say in interviews,

"So, Taylor,

what is it like to be a rock star?"

And I'm like, "F*** you.

I'm not a rock star. I'm a musician. "

It's a functional family,

you know what I mean?

I go to work coming up here,

and I just f***ing laugh all day

and play great music.

There will probably always, to some extent,

be that feeling,

"This could all end tomorrow.

Who the f*** knows, you know?"

We're all pretty lucky

that we get to do this,

and we have to enjoy it while it's here

and make the most of it.

It's a crazy feeling when something goes

from a spark of imagination

to something you can hold in your hands.

That first cassette...

made in five f***in' days or whatever,

and here we are. It's just like,

"Whoa. How the f*** did this happen?"

Honestly, had I taken

this whole career thing seriously,

I would've named it something else,

'cause it's the worst f***in' band name

in the world!

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