{"id":29676,"date":"2015-01-14T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29676"},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:45:04","slug":"dave-grohls-demo-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/dave-grohls-demo-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl&#8217;s demo tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Open Culture<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/dave-grohls-first-foo-fighters-demo-recordings.html\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Jones<\/a> talks about Dave Grohl&#8217;s early work while he was still a member of Nirvana:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like \u2018em or lump \u2018em, you should give \u2018em credit \u2014 Dave Grohl\u2019s Foo Fighters have kind of redefined the concept album with their latest, <em>Sonic Highways<\/em>, pushing a tired form in a refreshing direction. Rather than a self-contained narrative, the record opens itself up to tell the stories of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll itself or, as <em>Allmusic<\/em> puts it, \u201cthe classic rock that unites the U.S. from coast to coast.\u201d Picking up where his celebratory film <em>Sound City<\/em> left off, Grohl ties in his newest release with a series of HBO documentaries that visit cities from New York, to Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, L.A., Washington, DC., and Seattle to tell their musical stories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WKe59su7mSk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the musical history of that last metropolis cannot be narrated without reference to Grohl\u2019s former band, and so, <em>Consequence of Sound<\/em> informs us, \u201cNirvana received heavy focus during the [Seattle Sonic Highways] episode as Dave Grohl recounted his time in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame outfit. Among the biggest revelations was the time Kurt Cobain asked to hear solo recordings Grohl had been working on during Nirvana\u2019s 1992 tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cKurt heard that, and kissed me on the face, as he was in a bath,\u201d Grohl revealed. \u201cHe was so excited. He was like, \u2018I heard you recorded some stuff with Barrett [Jones].\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 He was like, \u2018Let me hear it.\u2019 I was too afraid to be in the same room as he listened to it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Open Culture, Josh Jones talks about Dave Grohl&#8217;s early work while he was still a member of Nirvana: Like \u2018em or lump \u2018em, you should give \u2018em credit \u2014 Dave Grohl\u2019s Foo Fighters have kind of redefined the concept album with their latest, Sonic Highways, pushing a tired form in a refreshing direction. Rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[200,973],"class_list":["post-29676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-music","tag-seattle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7IE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29678,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29676\/revisions\/29678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}