As if being the busiest man in rock wasn’t already enough, Dave Grohl is now getting his very own TV show.
The new series, set to screen on HBO this year, is essentially an extension of Grohl’s Sound City documentary and follows the chief Foo as he visits recording studios around the world and interviews A-list musicians who’ve passed through their doors.
The news of the program broke courtesy of Grohl’s own writer-director pal, Paul Brannigan (the author of the biography, This Is A Call The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl) who broke the news with Classic Rock Magazine.
Brannigan also reveals that the former Nirvana drummer and Hall of Fame inductee has already interviewed Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Dischord Records, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh (who may feature on the new Foos album, more on that later) for the new as-yet-untitled TV series.
The full list of musicians and studios is still under wraps, but some of the spaces Grohl has hit up includes the legendary Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago, Don Zientara’s Inner Ear studios in Washington DC, plus spaces in New York, Seattle, and Nashville (Jack White’s Third Man Records, maybe?). It seems the new Foo Fighters album, the follow-up to 2011’s Wasting Light, is tied in with the new HBO show…
Last but not least, Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California, the infamous desert studio that’s been the HQ for Queens Of The Stone Age and frontman Josh Homme’s other projects, such as the Desert Sessions and Eagles of Death Metal, as well as Arctic Monkeys.
It’s also the same Rancho De La Luna where Foo Fighters and producer Butch Vig where photographed recording and mucking around with BB guns last month, as Consequence Of Sound reports, while making the long-awaited new Foos record.
It seems the new album, the follow-up to 2011’s Wasting Light, is tied in with the new HBO show with the theory being that the band has been recording the new album across multiple studios while Grohl has been shooting his TV series.
Reinforcing that notion are comments from Eagles’ Joe Walsh, who tells The Hollywood Reporter that he laid down some guitar with Foo Fighters during their Rancho De La Luna visit. “I was a Foo Fighter for two days and played on a track of theirs that’s gonna come out,” he says.
Walsh may be one of several guests on the new forthcoming eighth Foo Fighters record, which according to Vig is “almost halfway done” and sees the band experimenting with some “challenging” recording techniques.
So in summary, new Grohl-hosted TV show and Foos LP later this year, and further proof that Grohl is one of the most prolific musicians alive today.
