Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you’ve heard the Foo Fighters decided to record their just-released album, Wasting Light, in frontman Dave Grohl’s garage. But, the real question is, “Why?”
Grohl told MTV News, he simply found the relaxed approach to recording refreshing, invigorating and fun.
“The making of this album was kind of the most fun we’ve ever had making a record, because it was so laid-back,” he said. “I wish every album was like this, where I didn’t even have to get out of my pajamas. Dude, it was in my house. ... I liked doing it this way. Let’s leave it at that.”
Listening to the raw-sounding album, it’s obvious the collection was recorded the lo-fi, old-school way: with tape, no computers and a lot of spirit.
“It was my idea to do it to tape, which nobody does it to tape anymore, everyone uses computers, and computers are rad and whatever, but tape, you have to actually play, and you have to be good. You can try to make it sound as good as it can, but at the end of the day, you get what you get on tape, that's it,” Grohl said.
The recording took Grohl back to the Nevermind days.
“When I first brought it up, I said, ‘Hey, I want to do this to tape,’ and everybody was like, ‘Well, can you do that?’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s the way we used to do it,’ and Butch [Vig], the producer, he produced Nevermind, like, 20 years ago, and that was tape,” he said.
“…I basically said, ‘If I see one computer in my house, you’re fired.’ Why go 99.9 percent of the way? If we’re going to do it, let’s go all the way.”
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