Friday, August 5, 2011
Kerrang's 50 albums you need to hear in 2011.
"Would you like a tour?"
Dave Grohl opens his front door and guides us into his Los Angeles home. At the end of the hallway to the left, Dave's wife Jordyn is reading the couple's four year old daughter Violet Maye a bedtime story: 19 month old Harper Willow is already asleep in her own room. A doorway to the right opens into one of the property's two garages, where Taylor Hawkins' drum kit has temporarily displaced Dave's beloved Harley Davidson motorcycles. Upstairs is the guest bedroom, Dave's office until a few months ago, when Jordyn informed her husband that Harper would now be needing her own bedroom downstairs, meaning that the guest bedroom would now need to move upstairs, meaning that Dave better clear out his shit pronto before the builders arrived to make the necessary alterations.
Dave Grohl opens his front door and guides us into his Los Angeles home. At the end of the hallway to the left, Dave's wife Jordyn is reading the couple's four year old daughter Violet Maye a bedtime story: 19 month old Harper Willow is already asleep in her own room. A doorway to the right opens into one of the property's two garages, where Taylor Hawkins' drum kit has temporarily displaced Dave's beloved Harley Davidson motorcycles. Upstairs is the guest bedroom, Dave's office until a few months ago, when Jordyn informed her husband that Harper would now be needing her own bedroom downstairs, meaning that the guest bedroom would now need to move upstairs, meaning that Dave better clear out his shit pronto before the builders arrived to make the necessary alterations.
INTERVIEW WITH FOO FIGHTERS
The Foo Fighters recent release, One By One was anything other than an easy birth. In fact, for a while, rumors circulated that the album wouldn't see the light of day. It seems Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, always the mad workaholic, was engaged in so many side projects that little time was left for the band. From studio time with David Bowie and video shoots with Tenacious D, to his metal project Probot and collaboration with Queens of the Stone Age, in April 2002, Grohl ended up cancelling his studio sessions with the Foo Fighters – a move that cost the band three months of work and over half-a-million dollars.
According to Dave, the effort sounded "far too clean, too tame and boring" and he decided the band needed some time out....
NYROCK:
Dave, for a while, it looked like the end of the band was near and One By One might not happen....
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed by singer/guitarist Dave Grohl in 1995 in Seattle, USA. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters in 1995, Grohl drafted Nate Mendel (bass), William Goldsmith(drums) (both of Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft), and Pat Smear (guitar) to complete the group. Goldsmith left during the recording of the group’s second album The Colour And The Shape(1997), soon followed by Smear. They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl left prior to the recording of the group’s third album, There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999).
Chris Shiflett joined as the band’s second guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left To Lose. The band released its fourth album One By One in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and harder-rocking material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace in 2007. Over the course of the band’s career, three of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album, and all six have been nominated for Grammys. The band’s seventh album Wasting Light was released in 2011 and peaked at #1 in several countries.
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