Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl announced he would record a 25-minute song a few months ago, the length of a short record/EP. Grohl has revealed that he has recorded the song, and the entire thing was filmed.
For 2014’s “Sonic Highways,” the Foos traveled the country with an HBO film crew in tow, and recorded a song in each location to reflect the respective environment. “And then it got weirder and weirder after that,” Grohl says with a laugh in a new Chicago Tribune interview.
Next came his plan to set up a recording studio on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl amphitheater. That never happened. And then there’s his as-yet-released 25-minute instrumental piece recorded live in which Grohl played every instrument and literally ran from one instrument to the next as a film crew captured the mayhem. Yes, Grohl says, he recognizes on paper it’s all a bit nutty. “But when people would ask me “Why are you doing this?” I’m always like “I don’t know. Because I’ve never done it before?”
“It’s just the challenge of doing something new,” he adds. “That becomes your engine after a while. Because the last thing you want to get caught in is extreme monotony. So you try to jam every show a little bit differently and you try to make your albums a little bit differently.”
