All right kids, here's the deal: after talking to everybody for a while
at the St. Louis show (I am still amazed at how much information I
off-handedly received at that show) discussions eventually turned to the
Foo Fighters days. Adam Wade (ex-Shudder to Think, current Sweet 75 w/
Krist Novaselic from Nirvana, duh) was Sunny Day's drum tech this past
tour so we wound up talking a little bit about the whole Dave Grohl
re-recording Will's drum tracks phenomenon. Anyway, of course Will's a
little bitter because one could rightfully construe such an action as a
direct stab at one's ego, but Adam, as a friend of Will's and everything,
could still rationalize why Dave did what he did. The Foo Fighters is
Dave's project. He could, and sort of did, be the Foo Fighters all by
himself, albeit he would have a bitch of a time playing live, and
everyone else affiliated with the band understood from day one that the
Foo Fighters was Dave's band and would be done the way he wanted it to be
done. Just like, until recently, Built to Spill was Doug Martsch's own
thing, the Foo Fighters was understandably NOT a collaboration by any
means. According to Adam, who quite obviously knows the story and goes
way back with Will, Dave had every right to re-record the drum tracks to
his standard. Everyone agrees (including good ol' Dave) that Will is an
amazing drummer and his decision had nothing to do with Will's
ability/skill. The fact of the matter is the drums didn't sound like
Dave wanted them to so he took it upon himself to make them sound the way
he wanted them to, which would be much easier than sitting Will down,
writing out the desired drum lines for him, and supervising them as they
were played. In my opinion, that would be much more degrading. If Will
couldn't play the drum lines he wrote, why would he want to play anything
at all. He's not in a cover band.
-Steevi-
Josh Hamer wrote:
> The story I heard from Request magazine around the time "The Colour
> and the Shape" came out was that Will dropped out saying he didn't
> want to tour as much as Dave wanted... which I guess could go along
> with the Carpal Tunnel Theory... and after Will dropped out of the
> picture Dave rerecorded all the parts during the cleanup phase of the
> album... of course this article was very pro-Dave so it may have been
> glossed over... it just goes to show we'll never know exactly what
> happened there.
>
> Joshua.
>
> >From: "Anup Gurnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Anup Gurnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "jane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [sdre-l]: retards
> >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:54:18 -0600
> >
> >I've read alot of Interviews about it and Will just dosn't like to
> talk
> >about it, but I get the idea that he might have felt intimidated by
> Grohl.
> > You have to understand one thing, Dave Grohl is an amazing "straight
> >ahead" drummer probably the best, whereas Will is a really amazing
> >"creative" drummer and he does really awesome fucked-up off time
> shit,
> >something I've never heard from Grohl. And he (Goldsmith) has a
> little
> >more Linear drumming style. But I think I read somewhere (I'm not
> sure if
> >Will was saying this or if it was the interviewer) where he said
> something
> >to the effect of
> > When Dave would have a riff it would be like, sure you can
> come up with
> >any drum beat you want but I bet that I already have one in my head
> thats
> >100 times better.
> >I have a feeling that Will held back his drumming in order to please
> Grohl
> >but He just took that as an excuse to rerecord Will's tracks. I have
> >never heard "The Colour and the Shape" but I know they kept Will's
> drums
> >on one or two of the songs, I wonder what his parts sound like. I
> also
> >heard somewhere that Will developed Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in Europe
> while
> >touring with Foo Fighters, he comnented on that in an interview by
> saying
> >that, "those songs always had to be Balls to the Walls" I saw the
> foo
> >fighters play in Chicago on the Mike Watt tour and at one point
> during
> >Watt's set both Will and Dave were playing Drums while Eddie Vedder
> was
> >playing Guitar, Watt was playing bass ofcourse and Pat Smear was
> singing.
> >It was very very cool.
> >
>
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