***OFFICIAL FOO FIGHTERS THREAD***

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  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Newch91 wrote:
    Video for "These Days" is available on iTunes for free for 48 hours starting now.

    Anybody know what arena that was filmed at?

    It was compiled of video from their most recent Australian/New Zealand tour. From just the one time watching it, I would say the majority of the stadium shots were of Aami Park in Melbourne and Metricon Stadium in Brisbane. IE when you see the roof of the stadiums, but as far as the closeup crowd shots.......who knows! :lol:
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Foos win Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song & Best Hard Rock performance and butch loses for producing it :?
  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Video for "These Days" is available on iTunes for free for 48 hours starting now.

    Anybody know what arena that was filmed at?

    It was compiled of video from their most recent Australian/New Zealand tour. From just the one time watching it, I would say the majority of the stadium shots were of Aami Park in Melbourne and Metricon Stadium in Brisbane. IE when you see the roof of the stadiums, but as far as the closeup crowd shots.......who knows! :lol:
    There's definitely footage from the Auckland show there including one of our own's banners near the end. :)
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    norm wrote:
    Foos win Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song & Best Hard Rock performance and butch loses for producing it :?
    Who won it?
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
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  • CTD10CTD10 Posts: 351
    Congrats to the Foo's....much deserved...what an awesome album,
    ctd
  • samjamsamjam New York Posts: 9,283
    SO proud of the Foos win! But I couldn't help but shake my head at the fact that after Dave's amazing acceptance speech, what plays? LMFAO -____-
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  • samjam wrote:
    SO proud of the Foos win! But I couldn't help but shake my head at the fact that after Dave's amazing acceptance speech, what plays? LMFAO -____-
    agreed. Foo's deserve everything they won and more. I loved every second of Grohls speech and i think everyone there did too. but dude.....then you go play an electronic music tribute???
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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    samjam wrote:
    SO proud of the Foos win! But I couldn't help but shake my head at the fact that after Dave's amazing acceptance speech, what plays? LMFAO -____-
    agreed. Foo's deserve everything they won and more. I loved every second of Grohls speech and i think everyone there did too. but dude.....then you go play an electronic music tribute???

    i've always liked dave grohl, and i'd consider myself a casual foo fighters fan...AND, i kind of liked the speech in theory. but doesn't anyone else get the impression that in his speech, he's trying to come off as a little more punk rock than he and his band really are?

    i can't tell you how many times he went out of his way last night to announce to everyone how they just made their album in his garage without a fancy recording studio. it was pretty much every chance he got, and he's been throwing that out there every opportunity he gets.

    COME ON DAVE! your garage IS a fancy recording studio. this isn't some shack they hunkered down in for a month with a shitty tape recorder, which is how it seems he would like people to believe it went down. this is a finished garage at a mansion we're talking about...a garage with the best recording equipment money can buy. and the production on 'wasting light' is near flawless. shoot it straight dave. you're not impressing anyone.
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    Lifted wrote:
    a garage with the best recording equipment money can buy.

    it was recorded straight to tape, no fancy digital pro tools crap, even if he does have a nice garage! :lol:
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    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
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  • conmanconman Posts: 7,493
    my sister sent me a video last night of my 2 year old niece totally rocking out to their grammy performance.. the first one, not the one with the DJ :D
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Oh, what a night we had last Sunday at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The glitz! The Glamour! SEACREST! Where do I begin?? Chillin' with Lil' Wayne...meeting Cyndi Lauper's adorable mother...the complimentary blinking Coldplay bracelet.....much too much to recap. It's really is still a bit of a blur. But, if there's one thing that I remember VERY clearly, it was accepting the Grammy for Best Rock Performance...and then saying this:

    "To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what's important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do... It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head]."

    Not the Gettysburg Address, but hey......I'm a drummer, remember?

    Well, me and my big mouth. Never has a 33 second acceptance rant evoked such caps-lock postboard rage as my lil' ode to analog recording has. OK....maybe Kanye has me on this one, but....Imma let you finish....just wanted to clarify something...

    I love music. I love ALL kinds of music. From Kyuss to Kraftwerk, Pinetop Perkins to Prodigy, Dead Kennedys to Deadmau5.....I love music. Electronic or acoustic, it doesn't matter to me. The simple act of creating music is a beautiful gift that ALL human beings are blessed with. And the diversity of one musician's personality to the next is what makes music so exciting and.....human.

    That's exactly what I was referring to. The "human element". That thing that happens when a song speeds up slightly, or a vocal goes a little sharp. That thing that makes people sound like PEOPLE. Somewhere along the line those things became "bad" things, and with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years they became easily "fixed". The end result? I my humble opinion.....a lot of music that sounds perfect, but lacks personality. The one thing that makes music so exciting in the first place.

    And, unfortunately, some of these great advances have taken the focus off of the actual craft of performance. Look, I am not Yngwie Malmsteen. I am not John Bonham. Hell...I'm not even Josh Groban, for that matter. But I try really fucking hard so that I don't have to rely on anything but my hands and my heart to play a song. I do the best that I possibly can within my limitations, and accept that it sounds like me. Because that's what I think is most important. It should be real, right? Everybody wants something real.

    I don't know how to do what Skrillex does (though I fucking love it) but I do know that the reason he is so loved is because he sounds like Skrillex, and that's badass. We have a different process and a different set of tools, but the "craft" is equally as important, I'm sure. I mean.....if it were that easy, anyone could do it, right? (See what I did there?)

    So, don't give me two Crown Royals and then ask me to make a speech at your wedding, because I might just bust into the advantages of recording to 2 inch tape.

    Now, I think I have to go scream at some kids to get off my lawn.

    Stay frosty.
    Davemau5
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    norm wrote:
    Oh, what a night we had last Sunday at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The glitz! The Glamour! SEACREST! Where do I begin?? Chillin' with Lil' Wayne...meeting Cyndi Lauper's adorable mother...the complimentary blinking Coldplay bracelet.....much too much to recap. It's really is still a bit of a blur. But, if there's one thing that I remember VERY clearly, it was accepting the Grammy for Best Rock Performance...and then saying this:

    "To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what's important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do... It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head]."

    Not the Gettysburg Address, but hey......I'm a drummer, remember?

    Well, me and my big mouth. Never has a 33 second acceptance rant evoked such caps-lock postboard rage as my lil' ode to analog recording has. OK....maybe Kanye has me on this one, but....Imma let you finish....just wanted to clarify something...

    I love music. I love ALL kinds of music. From Kyuss to Kraftwerk, Pinetop Perkins to Prodigy, Dead Kennedys to Deadmau5.....I love music. Electronic or acoustic, it doesn't matter to me. The simple act of creating music is a beautiful gift that ALL human beings are blessed with. And the diversity of one musician's personality to the next is what makes music so exciting and.....human.

    That's exactly what I was referring to. The "human element". That thing that happens when a song speeds up slightly, or a vocal goes a little sharp. That thing that makes people sound like PEOPLE. Somewhere along the line those things became "bad" things, and with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years they became easily "fixed". The end result? I my humble opinion.....a lot of music that sounds perfect, but lacks personality. The one thing that makes music so exciting in the first place.

    And, unfortunately, some of these great advances have taken the focus off of the actual craft of performance. Look, I am not Yngwie Malmsteen. I am not John Bonham. Hell...I'm not even Josh Groban, for that matter. But I try really fucking hard so that I don't have to rely on anything but my hands and my heart to play a song. I do the best that I possibly can within my limitations, and accept that it sounds like me. Because that's what I think is most important. It should be real, right? Everybody wants something real.

    I don't know how to do what Skrillex does (though I fucking love it) but I do know that the reason he is so loved is because he sounds like Skrillex, and that's badass. We have a different process and a different set of tools, but the "craft" is equally as important, I'm sure. I mean.....if it were that easy, anyone could do it, right? (See what I did there?)

    So, don't give me two Crown Royals and then ask me to make a speech at your wedding, because I might just bust into the advantages of recording to 2 inch tape.

    Now, I think I have to go scream at some kids to get off my lawn.

    Stay frosty.
    Davemau5
    :lol::lol::clap:
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • samjamsamjam New York Posts: 9,283
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Newch91 wrote:

    Awesome! That's gotta be a major hint that they will be playing this year's Reading, the line up is out on Monday, hmmmmm.....
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Newch91 wrote:

    Awesome! That's gotta be a major hint that they will be playing this year's Reading, the line up is out on Monday, hmmmmm.....
    Good point. Didn't think of that.
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  • PJ88PJ88 Posts: 1,074
    Newch91 wrote:


    That's great! Thanks for the link/laugh. :lol:
  • This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!
    :o Welcome! :D
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Newch91 wrote:
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!
    :o Welcome! :D

    :D A lot of great links are here. I'm trying to catch up now! haha

    I went to a show in Pittsburgh back in September. Anybody know how to find a bootleg of it?
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!

    This is one of the best threads on the board! :D
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    thefixer9 wrote:
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!

    This is one of the best threads on the board! :D
    This will end up being the official Foo Fighters. Or it already is.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    Newch91 wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!

    This is one of the best threads on the board! :D
    This will end up being the official Foo Fighters. Or it already is.

    You should just change the thread title to "Official Foo Fighters Thread"
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • KathiKathi Posts: 1,828
    Newch91 wrote:
    This is the first time I'v seen this thread!!!! It's Great :clap::clap: I wish I would have seen it earlier!
    :o Welcome! :D

    :D A lot of great links are here. I'm trying to catch up now! haha

    I went to a show in Pittsburgh back in September. Anybody know how to find a bootleg of it?

    There's no official FF boots, but check out foofighterslive.com, if a recording is around it will be mentioned there.
  • Kathi wrote:

    There's no official FF boots, but check out foofighterslive.com, if a recording is around it will be mentioned there.

    Thank You :)
  • KathiKathi Posts: 1,828
    Foos are playing Lollapalooza Chile tonight, in about an hour, there's a live stream, here's what you need to do to watch from outside the country:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ?hl=es-419

    If you've got chrome - click the link and then click to add to your Chrome.If you haven't got chrome download that and do then do the same. Once you've done that look in the top right hand corner next to the spanner icon there should be a grey black box with a green box underneath that with a white ': D' icon inside it - click on that an it should open up with a selection of channels. Then click on the Lollapolooza logo which at the moment is on the last option on the bottom row.
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    It's about time you changed the title of this thread! :lol:
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
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