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Chances are, David Grohl will forever be associated with Nirvana. After Kurt Cobain's suicide, he told an interviewer, "I was always going to be 'that guy from Kurt Cobain's band'" -- and most Nirvana fans would probably be lying if they tried to convince him otherwise.
But that was then. This is now. For his part, Grohl is rocketing forward with yet another configuration of Foo Fighters, preparing a new album for a November release and planning a massive tour that will keep him and his brethren on the road for the next couple of years.
It hasn't always been smooth going for Grohl and company, though. Personnel changes have been part of the band since its inception: two guitarists, Pat Smear and Franz Stahl, and drummer William Goldsmith departed after 1997's "The Colour and the Shape" album. The upcoming release, "There Is Nothing Left to Lose," is the third Foo offering, and its sound is as different as the altered lineup.
Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer Taylor Hawkins holed up for months in Grohl's Virginia home with producer Adam Kasper (guitarist Chris Shiflett will be on tour with the band, though he wasn't in on the recording of the album). There, they built a relatively basic recording studio in the basement and set about writing, recording, re-arranging, and re-recording song after song after song. The result is eclectic enough to surprise old fans and raucous enough to keep 'em happy.
MTV News' Bruce McDonald visited the Foo Fighters at their studio for a little tutorial in the fine art of choosing the right cover songs, deconstructing the Woodstock riots, and navigating the touchy dynamics of musicians living in close quarters. Through it all, one thing became increasingly clear: Virginia is for rockers.
MTV News: So you've packed up and left Capitol Records. Why?
David Grohl: When we signed with Capitol in 1995, Gary Gersh was the president of the label, and he was the man responsible for signing Nirvana to DGC. He's a great guy; we liked him so much that we had a clause in our contract that if Gary left the company, we were free to do whatever we wanted to do. He left the company, so we split, too. We spent almost a year without a label and just recently decided to go to RCA.
MTV: Why RCA?
DG: We talked to pretty much everybody -- Interscope, Maverick, Columbia, Epic -- and RCA seemed like they were cool people. We thought, "Well, do we go to the label with all the juice and all the huge bands? Or do we go somewhere where there are great people who are hungry to work, and where instead of swimming in a roster of millions of enormous bands, we really work with them?" RCA was it.
MTV: How long does the new deal last? A finite number of records?
DG: Two. The title of the [new] record is going to be "There Is Nothing Left To Lose," and it's coming out on November 2.
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