There’s a Foo Fighters billboard up in Los Angeles. Is it new album time?
Hot billboard action coming atcha! That is: Foo Fighters are teasing something via the medium of big signs in Los Angeles, where their logo and an ‘X’ have appeared. A clue? Definitely. Signifying Foos’ tenth album? Quite possibly. Worth putting on Instagram? Absolutely.
Back at the start of 2020 we spoke to Dave about the follow-up to Concrete And Gold, and – this may shock you – he was really excited about the record.
“I’m fucking excited for people to hear it and I can’t wait to jump on that fucking stage to play it,” the frontman told us. “There are choruses on this record that 50-fucking-thousand people are gonna sing, and it’s gonna bring everyone’s fucking hearts together in that moment. And that’s what it’s all about.”
But the world has, er, changed since then, scuppering all sorts of plans, including the idea of the band touring in a van like the old days.
Sessions for the band's new album took place at a rented house in in Encino, California. However, though recording Wasting Light in Dave Grohl’s garage meant he had to get the car out and move the lawnmower every time they wanted to do any work, at least it wasn’t haunted.
“I knew the vibes were definitely off but the sound was fucking on,” the frontman told Mojo. “We started working there and it wasn’t long before things started happening. We would come back to the studio the next day and all of the guitars would be detuned. Or the setting we’d put on the board, all of them had gone back to zero.”
After noticing “weird open mic noises” or missing tracks on ProTools, the band then set up a baby monitor to see if they could physically spot what was going on. And, as they had expected, soon they were greeted with “things that [they] couldn’t explain”.
“Then when we found out about the history of the house, I had to sign a fucking non-disclosure agreement with the landlord because he’s trying to sell the place,” Dave explains. “So, I can’t give away what happened there in the past, but these multiple occurrences over a short period of time made us finish the album as quickly as we could.”
Spooky. And it’s not helping those rumours that Dave’s spent time secretly playing in, ahem, Ghost.
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