Dave Grohl
4/23/20261 hr 10 min
The Foo Fighters icon stops by to tell us all about the band’s new LP.
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First 90 secondsZane Lowe· Host0:00
Album 12, baby. [laughs] Can you believe it?
Dave Grohl· Guest0:03
No.
Zane Lowe· Host0:04
[laughs] Isn't it amazing?
Dave Grohl· Guest0:06
It's pretty wild. I, honestly, I wake up in the morning and I think, I can't believe not only, um, that w- we're still doing this- Yeah ... but honestly, like, it's still so, it feels so good. We rehearse every day.
Zane Lowe· Host0:24
Yeah.
Dave Grohl· Guest0:25
And just to be in the room with the guys and rehearsing new songs or writing new songs, it, it's like, it still feels so good.
Zane Lowe· Host0:35
Probably more precious than ever in a way, and I can hear that in the playing on this. Even on that song there, hearing Nate just up and down the scale, like, just restless and engaged and hungry to- Yeah ... add value, you know?
Dave Grohl· Guest0:46
You know, it's funny, we had this conversation the other day while we were rehearsing that song.
Zane Lowe· Host0:50
Mm.
Dave Grohl· Guest0:51
And, um, and we, you know, we're trying to get it as tight as we can, and then the second half of that song that you just heard, where it bec- where it starts to build up- Caught in the echo for the people that are watching this on a podcast level, yes ... and so we were, everybody was really focused on doing what we did- Mm ... on the record.
Zane Lowe· Host1:11
Mm.
Dave Grohl· Guest1:12
So I was doing this part and it builds this way, and Chris is up here on this thing doing this. Nate's got his bassline. And we're working on it, and it's building, building, building, and I'm like, I'm like, "Okay, it needs to be, like, it, it needs to feel bigger. It needs to feel more."
Zane Lowe· Host1:26
It needs to take off.
Dave Grohl· Guest1:27
It needs to take off. It needs to be less,