Oh, you thought Dave Grohl was taking a day off? Yeah, right. While finishing up work on the Foo Fighters‘ eighth studio album, the man of a thousand projects has also signed on for his own HBO series.
As Grohl biographer Paul Brannigan reports, the show will center on Dave’s journeys around the world as he explores and utilizes the best recording studios in existence. He explains:
“Studios featured in the series will include Nirvana/Page & Plant producer Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, Don Zientara’s Inner Ear studios in Washington DC – where Fugazi, Henry Rollins’ first band S.O.A. and Grohl’s pre-Nirvana punk rock band Scream recorded – and Rancho De La Luna studios in California, a site at which Queens Of The Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys and Mark Lanegan, among others, have laid songs to tape. The singer has also visited studios in New York, Seattle and Nashville.”
Fans can expect appearances from Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Joe Walsh from The Eagles and Fugazi legend/Dischord Records chief Ian MacKaye.
Another bit of news was tacked on to the update as well, regarding a guest on the new Foo record: guitarist/musician Joe Walsh will appear on the album, he let slip to the Hollywood Reporter. “I was a Foo Fighter for two days,” he explained, “and played on a track of theirs that’s gonna come out. I also play guitar on a War song, so I’m a low rider and a Foo Fighter.”
