A single Studer A827 24-Track 2” tape recorder had been used during those test recordings and a second was brought in to enable the band to run up to 48 tracks. With exploratory recordings in March 2010 deemed a success work continued in the following weeks to fully prepare Grohl’s house for recording. This is gonna be a record about performance, about how you guys play” he told the band.
I can’t paste drum fills and choruses around. You’ve gotta be so well rehearsed, ’cause I can’t fix anything. He was happy to work that way again, but it came with words of caution for the band members - “That means you guys have to be razor-sharp tight. Whilst he had now adapted to the digital world Butch Vig was still very familiar with recording to tape, the “old fashioned” way. This album was to be 100% analog, just as every band had done in the not too distant past. That was indeed how the past couple of Foo Fighters records had been done, and it was relatively common in the industry.
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“What we’ll do is we’ll probably record on tape and then dump it into Pro Tools,” thought Vig upon hearing the plan. “He dropped one bombshell: ‘I wanna do it in my garage.’” Following that first bombshell Grohl then revealed the next left field decision - recording on tape, entirely in analog. “The first day we sat down and talked about it,” said Vig. And albums usually begin with Taylor and I, we'll go in and work on tempos and dynamic and rough arrangements of riffs, and then after we've narrowed it down to 20 song ideas, we ask the other guys.”įollowing his work producing two songs for Foo Fighters Greatest Hits record in 2009 Butch Vig had agreed to produce the next full-length record but was not entirely prepared for what Dave Grohl had in mind. We soundproofed the garage door so that my neighbors wouldn't call the fucking cops.”Īs with most previous albums demo recording began with just Grohl and Hawkins hashing out ideas. “I literally backed the minivan out of the garage, pulled the lawnmower out, put a drum set in it and set up mics. The Vultures returned home in early February and Grohl immediately began to put his master plan into action. Rather than just record the album in the most expensive studio with the most state-of-the-art equipment, what if Butch and I were to get back together after 20 years and dust off the tape machines and put them in my garage?” Grohl thought to himself.
“OK, we should make a documentary about the recording of this new album and make it a history of the band too. In January 2010 Them Crooked Vultures were booked on a tour of Australia and New Zealand and before a show in Perth Grohl, sat in his hotel room, hatched an ambitious plan for the next Foo Fighters album. The rest of the band similarly kept themselves busy – Chris Shiflett and Taylor Hawkins both recorded albums with their other bands, the Dead Peasants and the Coattail Riders respectively, whilst Nate Mendel joined his former band Sunny Day Real Estate for a reunion tour and also worked on material for his own future solo album. The band leader instead formed supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, recording an album and touring across the world back behind the drum kit. That didn’t mean a long vacation on a beach for the band members, though. Dave Grohl told the media he thought it was time for a long break for the band as they had been working virtually non-stop since their inception in 1995. Except for a brief reprise to promote 2009s Greatest Hits album Foo Fighters were very quiet once touring for their album ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace’ was completed in late 2008.
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