Warning to my kids: this video would be rated R for language if the MPAA had anything to do with it.  Therefore, since we don't let you watch R rated movies at home, let's not watch R rated videos daddy posts on his website, okay?  We like Dave Grohl as a person, but we don't want to talk like him.

Okay, now that we've got that little bit of hypocrisy out of the way, let's get to it.  If you're at all interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff of Dave Grohl recording the new Foo Fighter's album, check this video out.  He gives a tour of his garage where they recorded the album (and sure enough it is a real garage - I especially like the pink little girls bike along the same wall rows of microphone and instrument cables are hung on) and talks about recording demos there and how they recorded using analog tape and how he didn't want to lose the "garagy" sound that he liked so much.  Oh, and he shows the "Foo Fighters Guitar" he's used on all the FF albums. 

All in all, Dave Grohl's garage sounds like a cool place to record an album.  My garage is freezing cold and has dirty slush all over the floor.  

I hate Dave Grohl.
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Paul over at fooarchive.com made some notes a couple of days ago on the latest phone interview with Dave about their completed album.
http://www.fooarchive.com/news/?p=291

Steve Harris Interview at xfm where Dave talks about recording in his house, what the album is going to sound like (big), when it's going to come out (spring) and the huge shows they have planned in the summer.
http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/interviews/steve-harris-speaks-to-dave-grohl

Here's an article about what the home life of Dave Grohl is/was for the recording of the album.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3205399/Foo-Fighter-Dave-Grohl-talks-fame-and-family.html

I hate Dave Grohl and so should you.
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Here's a link that will only be active for seven days if you want to listen to a  Zane Lowe (BBC) phone interview with Dave Grohl.  The Dave interview starts at around 59 minutes in (just drag the cursor there in the media player).  Or check out the Dave Grohl Bootleg Interview version I found.  Here are the highlights from FooFightersArchive.com:
  • Zane Lowe caught up with Dave on the telephone to primarily plug some UK dates next Summer but that wasn’t all that was covered. So here are the points of interest:
  • 2 nights at Milton Keyes Bowl on July 2nd & 3rd 2011. Support comes from Biffy Clyro, Jimmy Eat World & Death Cab For Cutie.
  • The new album is “full on” thanks to Butch Vig keeping Dave to his promise it’d be the heaviest Foos album yet.
  • 7 songs have been recorded with a possible 7 more to go.
  • Bob Mould sings with Dave on ‘Dear Rosemary’.
  • Krist Novoselic plays bass on a track.
They're also making a movie about the process (with a director and everything).  In 2011 you "won't be able to get the Foo Fighters out of your hair" according to Dave.  Did you catch that they only have seven songs recorded so far?  I have a chance of Beating Dave Grohl yet!  In the interview, Dave promises the album will be done by their July shows in England.  July!? Phhhh.  I plan on being done next month.  At least with the recording part of it.  Check back in a few days where I lay out my plan on how I'm going to do that. 

Thanks for reading.  You rock!
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Here’s a phone interview with Dave Grohl on the eve of Them Crooked Vulture's Australian tour.  He explains the origins of the new super group, which had its beginnings at Dave’s 40th birthday party at Medieval Times (I’m sure there’s some sort of joke in there).  He also talks about how he ended up playing on Slash’s new album that’s coming out. 
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