Foo Fighters have launched a brand new single to mark the band’s thirtieth anniversary.
Dave Grohl has mirrored on the band’s evolution
Frontman Dave Grohl has taken to the band’s official web site to share particulars of At the moment’s Track, their new single, and to mirror on the Foo Fighters’ evolution over time.
The 56-year-old star – who based the rock band after beforehand starring in Nirvana – wrote: “This band started nearly as an excuse. A cause to hold devices round our necks and smoke cigarettes with the home windows rolled up whereas listening to our favourite cassettes as we barreled down the interstate in direction of the following darkish, sticky stage.
“We’d all been within the sport for some time by then, thoughts you. We’d all performed in different bands, with different individuals, some that ended a lot too quickly. However we had been removed from completed. This was a mischievous and perhaps mandatory detour from maturity, reminding all 4 of us that our little brains had been nonetheless wired like an overloaded extension wire, sparking from too many gentle strands on the Christmas tree. A infantile refusal of maturity, white knuckling the final grasps of adolescence. (Mainly, we had been simply f****** round).
“However, earlier than lengthy it turned clear that we had been on to one thing extra than simply escape. Not essentially within the musical sense. Extra of a “life” factor. This was a brand new starting. A change. And it felt proper. We had stumbled upon a shiny new toy that got here with out directions and with a lot meeting required. So, we started to construct it ever so fastidiously, piece by piece. (sic)”
Dave additionally paid a glowing tribute to Taylor Hawkins, who joined the Foo Fighters in 1997, and remained the band’s drummer till his demise in March 2022, aged 50.
Dave – who recorded the band’s eponymous debut album in 1995 – wrote: “Taylor. Your identify is spoken every single day, typically with tears, typically with a smile, however you’re nonetheless in every part we do, in every single place we go, eternally. The enormity of your stunning soul is simply rivaled by the infinite longing we really feel in your absence. All of us miss you past phrases. Foo Fighters will eternally embody Taylor Hawkins in each word that we play, till we do lastly attain our vacation spot. (sic)”
