At the time, Grohl was fielding offers from everyone from the likes of Tom Petty to Danzig, but the thought of joining another band and making music again was debilitating. With his DIY sensibility from his early DC punk days intact, he went into the studio and laid everything down in one week, even recording the songs in the exact order they appeared on the finished LP. After finishing the recording, he adopted the mystery moniker and casually passed a few copies of the sessions to friends for feedback, which then quickly attracted label interest, leading to Grohl signing with Capitol.
Becoming a frontman Although the scuzzy guitars and layers of feedback might have felt familiar, Foo Fighters also showed a whole new side of Grohl, having stepped out from behind the drum kit to showcase his songwriting and singing skills. That album the vocals are quadrupled. And while he had some material that had been sitting for some time, other songs came fresh and fast when he finally decided to record for the first time after Cobain's death. To me it seemed so professional.
I wanted to start a label on my own, release the album with no names on it, no photos, call it Foo Fighters so people thought it was a band. So quietly and with little fanfare, Grohl booked studio time at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, ready to get back into the flow of music again. And he was determined to work it out on his own.
Grohl played drums, bass, guitar and sang on the band's self-titled debut disc, with only pal Barrett Jones handling the production and Afghan Whigs vocalist Greg Dulli, who happened to be in the studio at the time, lending a guest guitar part on " X-Static.
He could do it because he has perfect time. He'd lay down a perfect drum beat and work off that. He'd play drums, run out and play bass, and then put two guitar layers over the top and sing it. I was just watching him record, and he asked me if I wanted to play.
I didn't even get out of my chair. He just handed me a guitar. Oddly enough, the one place where Grohl was not confident was on the vocals.
He told My Brilliant Career , "I was insecure about my voice. You know how people double their vocals to make them stronger? That album the vocals are quadrupled. I didn't want to be a lead singer, I couldn't f--king sing. Eventually Grohl finished his project, but still protective of the work, he only made a small amount of cassette copies and starting handing them out to friends and a few people who showed interest in his work, and eventually started to garner some label interest.
One of the first people to take an interest was Eddie Vedder , who debuted the song " Exhausted " on his Self-Pollution pirate radio show. Eventually, the band signed a deal with Capitol with Grohl also getting his own Roswell Records off the ground.
But Foo Fighters was still a one man project and touring would be required, so Grohl snagged Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both newly free after a down period for their band.
And rounding out the group was Pat Smear , a late-era addition to the Nirvana lineup on guitar. After a mixing touch up at The Shop studio in Arcata, Calif. I was fucking, what, 25 years old? I was a kid. Fuck that. It was a blast. I miss Nirvana with all my heart… I miss Kurt… I dream about him all the time, great dreams and sad, heart-wrenching, fucked-up dreams. I miss it all a lot. When Kurt Cobain passed away and Nirvana ceased to be, Dave Grohl was left with a choice: let his pain consume him and lead him away from music forever, or find a way of working through the darkness….
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