i think the message is that while some of these guys have been chill enough to ride with dave for almost 20 years - they're riding with dave. the guy recorded the first album entirely by himself so it's not like it became a dictatorship, it always was one.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
dave: "american cities...rich with musical history...
four of the six foo fighters: "hey, la! we're from there! can we..."
dave: "........the desert......there's always something that's pulled me to it..."
pat: "hey what about the germs, i think we were naked raygun big"
dave: "oh right, right, punk heroes...you, joan jett, sst, 80s underground i'm all about that....but the desert...ever heard kyuss...now that was cool...josh told me a story..."
taylor: "FUCK YOU I'VE BEEN IN THIS BAND SINCE THE 90s I'M MEETING AN EAGLE"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
irl lols at that
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
New Orleans song was the most hilariously non-sounding-like-the-city-we-just-immersed-ourselves-in yet
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Are the other band members (besides Taylor) always quiet anonymous plain dudes on purpose so they don't alienate the very large Foo Fighters fan demo of quiet anonymous plain dudes?
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
XP - Yeah, I was hoping for some crazy track with a bounce rhythm and some horns, then we get another pumped up Rick Springfield tune. *caveat* I only listened to the first 40s
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
ha yeah I turned it off too maybe there was a brass band breakdown at the end lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but they made sure the camera panned across portraits of disappointed looking New Orealns legends during the video
xxxpost
― Evan, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
The others come across very well on that Doc that came out a couple of years back, esp Nate.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if joe walsh was a compromise to keep dave from having to meet don henley
(well, yeah)
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:20 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He's the AIDS denier
― benbbag, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Really? I guess that must have been in the special features.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/02/foo-fighters-hiv-deniers
Mendel says he was won over by Maggiore's book, and passed it around to the rest of the band, which includes former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Mendel says that he would steer anyone considering an HIV antibody test toward Maggiore's group."If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
"If you test positive, you are pretty much given a bleak outlook and told to take toxic drugs to possibly ward off new infections," says Mendel.
With the other band members on board, Mendel aims to use the Foo Fighters' celebrity to get the message out to a broad audience. The Foo Fighters plan additional benefit shows, and have placed a banner ad on their Web site linking to Alive and Well. Mendel says that he does not have HIV, nor does he have any friends with HIV besides Maggiore, who has remained asymptomatic.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
Watched the Seattle episode last night. Some genuinely moving parts, especially toward the end. And then, for no fucking reason at all, the mood shifts completely and Dave interviews Macklemore. WTF
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
haha wow ok glad I turned it off before that
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Hawkins bums me out, but I bet it's kind of a bummer to be Taylor Hawkins.
Can't really think of another example of such a famous band whose drummer is not the best drummer in the band, besides maybe that one time Sheila E was one of Ringo's all-stars
― sheesh, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:54 (nine years ago) link
Are the other band members (besides Taylor) always quiet anonymous plain dudes on purpose so they don't alienate the very large Foo Fighters fan demo of quiet anonymous plain dudes? --Evan
weird to see that pat smear is now a relatively quiet anonymous plain dude, but he's rich, so that prob makes up for it.
regarding current foo fandom, this is so OTM it's not even funny ( ok it is funny bc I'm laughing)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
Grohl just basically spilled the beans on The Daily Show that there will be a second season. Hopefully it won't be tied to an album, but of course it will.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Has this been addressed yet?
http://jezebel.com/dave-grohls-sonic-highways-systematically-erases-women-1666309945
I don't necessarily agree (maybe Hole weren't mentioned because - ultimately -- HOLE DON'T MATTER)...but just throwin' it out there.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Said article also features this line...
"Kanye West, an artist as complicated, heart-driven, and relevant as Nirvana ever was, is seen in a short clip at the beginning, near the credits, but is not mentioned thereafter."
Kanye West is complicated?
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
FOH
― resting waterface (m bison), Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
There have been a bunch of women on the show - heart, joan jett, dolly parton, emmylou harris.
Hole is/was terrible
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Oh Kanye's complicated alright: http://gawker.com/which-giant-titted-anime-statue-was-kanye-west-obsessed-1667243236?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
That being said criticism of the show being conventionally rockist is obviously legit
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
"i wish there was more women in it" is more a than valid note, but the claim of systematic erasure in the headline doesn't really match the "sure there was heart but where's bikini kill?" tone of the rest of the post. not totally sure what the definition of "systematically erasing women" would mean, but i assume it would mean having even less than the token legends like dolly, joan jett, etc.
also hole was from la
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
i stopped watching after my own thinkpiece went up, but unless nate mendel got a lot of love in the seattle episode one could argue he's systematically erasing the other foo fighters almost as much as he is women
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
"sure, taylor got to jizz his pants at an eagle for one minute, but is the occasional doofy grin all he's had to contribute since 1997?"
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
"Why, on the LA episode, is there a lengthy interlude about the desert outside the city because Queens of the Stone Age once recorded there, but can't even make a gesture towards Chris Shiflett, the band's guitarist since 1999, who was raised in Santa Barbara?"
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I started laughing really hard when the Seattle episode transitioned from grunge to Macklemore. It did a really great job of making the city look like a LA's farm team. Getting so sick of Subpop's "We're losers...really!" schtick.
Austin episode was the highlight of the season for me. Hope season 2 explores the scenes in completely innocuous cities. Maybe send Dave Grohl to Newbridge.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
dave-grohls-sonic-highways-systematically-erases-calvin-johnson
i was going to at least check out the seattle episode of the final three but ever since news of macklemore floated out i haven't been able to force myself
― da croupier, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
I thought the Austin one was terrible. Too much spillover from Nashville, and the rest was overwhelmingly Austin City Limits centric.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure the NYC one will make me froth at the mouth. Nate got about three nanoseconds in the Seattle episode.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
seconds away from watching the final one, and I have every expectation that it will please AlexinNYC very much. Given the deeply conservative worldview presented by Grphl so far, the only thing I can think of that would annoy AiNYC is if the show declined to make a case for Killing Joke as a huge influence on every right thinking act in town, or as a signature achievement in human history.
I have no doubt that Grohl will walk around town and lament clubs that are no longer there, which would be in line with the program thus far. surely there will be a lengthy CBGBs segment.
― veronica moser, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I hope he just interviews Bono, Sting, Madonna, Taylor Swift and other musicians rich enough to live in New York. Then he can lament how the death of CBGBs means no more bands like Interpol or the Strokes.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Was really praying for a sax-playing bill clinton to walk in and interrupt the obama interview segment.
oddly this was easily the worst episode (ugh a fucking kiss hagiography and no mention of the velvets), resulting in the best foo fighters song of the series. Which was still pretty blah.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Close your laptops and hire a string section and world-class arranger, kids.
― Andy K, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
I still think Taylor Hawkins is just filling in between Alanis Morissette tours
― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
It bums me out because this band could be good if Dave just gave in and went back on drums and got someone to help write not so structured songs.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
this band could be good if Dave just gave in and went back on drums and got Kurt Cobain to help write the songs
― alpine static, Sunday, 7 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
This band would be great if different people were in it and they traded their guitars for synths and changed their name to kraftwerk
― resting waterface (m bison), Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I kinda got the sense that Grohl just wanted to geek out on Kyuss but felt like it had to be sold as an LA episode
Pat Smear eating a sandwich in the New Orleans episode was great
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Dave Grohl's new band ... Oujia Board Kobain ... I'd buy that ...
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 7 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
" .... N ..... O .... "
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 December 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
― sheesh, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:54 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dinosaur Jr. imo
wouldn't say Hawkins is as good as Grohl all-around but i've never really been able to pick up on any substantial gap in technical proficiency, he's pretty damn good
― some dude, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
He smiles too much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 December 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
NY episode was so terrible
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Also when she was in the Revolution
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5308/35/16x9/640.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, and as much as I like Meg White, Jack White is probably a better drummer
― sheesh, Friday, 9 January 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link