Sonic Highways Foo Fighters

• 1 Something From Nothing 04:49
• 2 The Feast and The Famine 03:50
• 3 Congregation 05:12
• 4 What Did I Do?/God As My Witness 05:44
• 5 Outside 05:15
• 6 In The Clear 04:40
• 7 Subterranean 06:45
• 8 I Am A River 07:38
• Total Runtime 43:53

Info zu Sonic Highways

'Sonic Highways' ist der Follow-Up zum vierfach Grammy-preisgekrönten Nummer-Eins-Albums 'Wasting Light', das im April 2011 erschien und Platz eins in den deutschen, britischen und US-amerikanischen Charts erreichte. 'Sonic Highways' ist das achte Studioalbum der Band und wurde von der Band in Zusammenarbeit mit Butch Vig produziert.

Obgleich es sich bei 'Sonic Highways' keineswegs um einen Soundtrack handelt, teilt sich der Longplayer den Titel mit einer gleichnamigen, acht Folgen umfassenden HBO-Serie, bei der Dave Grohl Regie führte. Grohl beschreibt die Serie, die in den USA am 17. Oktober Premiere feiert, als „Liebeserklärung an die Geschichte der amerikanischen Musik“.

„Ich habe mir den Familienstammbaum der amerikanischen Musikgeschichte angeschaut und mich zu den Wurzeln durchgegraben, um mich für das Album inspirieren zu lassen“, erläutert Grohl seine Herangehensweise. Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett und Pat Smear tauchten in die Musikgeschichte und das kulturelle Leben der einzelnen Städte (Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle und Washington DC) ein, wo sie sich jeweils in einem legendären Studio einquartierten, das die einzigartige Geschichte und den Charakter des Ortes geprägt hatte. In jeder Stadt wurde ein Song aufgenommen, jeweils unter Beteiligung von legendären, lokalen Musikern. Auch die Entstehung der Texte verlief diesmal anders als sonst: Grohl fing erst in den letzten Tagen der Sessions an zu schreiben, um die Erfahrungen, Interviews (für die HBO-Doku) und persönlichen Begegnungen mit einfließen lassen zu können.

2013 gab Dave Grohl mit dem Grammy-preisgekrönten Film „Sound City“ sein Debüt als Regisseur, mit „Sonic Highways” dokumentiert er nun „eine Reise, um die Struktur unserer musikalischen Identität zu entschlüsseln… die aber nicht nur ein ‚Making of‘ unseres ehrgeizigsten Albums ist… es ist ‚Sound City‘ auf Steroiden.“ Jede Episode zeigt die regionale Identität der jeweiligen Stadt, wie die Umgebung die Musiker in ihrer Entwicklung prägte und welchen Einfluss diese umgekehrt auf die Kultur ihrer Heimatstadt hatten. Erklärtes Ziel der Band, die im kommenden Jahr ihr 20. Jubiläum feiert, ist es, der nächsten Generation von Musikern „etwas zurückgeben“. Oder in den Worten des interviewten Buddy Guy: „Everything comes from what's come before“.

„SONIC HIGHWAYS ist ein Album mit mehr Tiefgang und Musikalität, das man aber trotzdem sofort als ein Foo-Fighters-Album enttarnt.“ (musikexpress)

„In ihrem ›Liebesbrief an die Geschichte amerikanischer Musik‹ (Zitat Grohl) gelingt es der Gruppe ohne jede Anstrengung, Radio-Mainstream und simple Riffrocker, Punk-Nahes, Orchestrales und metallisch Vorwärtsrollendes zusammenzuhalten.“ (Stereo)

„Dave Grohl und Freunde besuchen die größten US-Musikstädte – Song für Song, mit vielen Gaststars.“ (Rolling Stone)

Dave Grohl, vocals, guitars, backing vocals
Pat Smear, rhythm guitar
Chris Shiflett, lead guitar
Nate Mendel, bass
Taylor Hawkins, drums, backing vocals

Engineered by James Brown
Produced by Foo Fighters, Butch Vig

When Foo Fighters
released a debut album written and recorded entirely by leader Dave Grohl — at that point known only as the powerhouse drummer for Nirvana — in the summer of 1995, few would have guessed that the group would wind up as the one band to survive the '90s alt-rock explosion unscathed. Other bands burned brighter but they flamed out, breaking up after scoring a hit or two, but the Foos steadily racked up success after success, filling up stadiums around the world while staying on top of the charts all the way into the second decade of the new millennium. Once the band's lineup coalesced around the time of its third album in 1999, Foo Fighters' sound also gelled into a recognizable signature built upon the heavy, melodic, loud-quiet-loud template of the Pixies and Nirvana, the modern rock anchored by a love of classic guitar rock. It was commercial without pandering, creatively restless without being alienating, a sound with wide appeal delivered by a band that was happy to tour and record the way bands did back in the '70s. When Wasting Light became their first number one album in America upon its release in the spring of 2011, it was confirmation that Foo Fighters were survivors who had earned a large, devoted audience primarily through hard work.

All of this industriousness stems from Dave Grohl, who had been playing guitar and writing songs long before he began drumming. Throughout his early teens he performed in a variety of hardcore punk bands and in the late '80s he joined the Washington, D.C.-area hardcore band Scream as their drummer. During Scream's final days, Grohl began recording his own material in the basement studio of his friend Barrett Jones. Some of Grohl's songs appeared on Scream's final album, Fumble. Following the band's 1990 summer tour, Grohl joined Nirvana and moved cross-country to Seattle.

After Nirvana recorded Nevermind, Grohl went back to the D.C. area and recorded a handful of tracks that would appear on Pocketwatch, a cassette released by Simple Machines. For most of 1992, he was busy with Nirvana, but when the band was off the road, he recorded solo material with Jones, who had also moved to Seattle. The pair kept recording throughout early 1993, when Grohl returned to Nirvana to record In Utero. Grohl had toyed with the idea of releasing another independent cassette in the summer of 1993, but the plans never reached fruition. Following Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, the drummer kept quiet for several months. In the fall of 1994, Grohl and Jones decamped to a professional studio and recorded the songs that comprised Foo Fighters' debut album in a week. Boiling down his backlog of songs to about 15 tracks, Grohl played all of the instruments on the album. He made 100 copies of the tape, passing it out to friends and associates. In no time, Grohl's solo project became the object of a fierce record company bidding war.

Instead of embarking on a full-fledged solo career, Grohl decided to form a band. Through his wife he met Nate Mendel, the bassist for Sunny Day Real Estate. Shortly before the pair met, Jeremy Enigk, the leader of Sunny Day Real Estate, had converted to Christianity and quit the band, effectively ending the group's career. Not only did Mendel join Grohl's band, but so did Sunny Day's drummer, William Goldsmith. Former Germs and Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear rounded out the lineup. The band, named Foo Fighters after a World War II secret force that allegedly researched UFOs, signed a contract with Capitol Records. The band's self-titled debut, consisting solely of Dave Grohl's solo recordings, was released on July 4, 1995. It became an instant success in America, as "This Is a Call" garnered heavy alternative and album rock airplay. By early 1996, the album was certified platinum in the U.S.

Throughout 1996, Foo Fighters supported the album with an extensive tour, enjoying a crossover hit with "Big Me" that spring. Late in the year, the group began recording its second album with producer Gil Norton. During the sessions, William Goldsmith left the band due to creative tensions, leaving Grohl to drum on the majority of the album. Before the record's release, Goldsmith was replaced by Taylor Hawkins, who had previously drummed with Alanis Morissette. The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters' second album and the first they recorded as a band, was issued in May of 1997. Smear left the group in the wake of the album's completion and was replaced by guitarist Franz Stahl, whose stay proved short-lived; 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded as a three-piece, with ex-No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett signing on soon after.

One by One, the group's most polished production, appeared in late 2002, followed by 2005's In Your Honor, which narrowly missed the top of Billboard's album chart. After releasing a live album titled Skin and Bones in 2006, the band returned to Norton's studio and started constructing a dozen fractured, eclectic rock songs to be released in 2007 under the name Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace. Two years later, the group released its first compilation, Greatest Hits, as Grohl launched his new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, which also featured Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. Foo Fighters reconvened for 2011's Wasting Light, a Butch Vig production that doubled as the official return of Pat Smear, who hadn't played on any of the band's albums since 1997. Wasting Light wound up as a smash success for the Foos, debuting at number one on the Billboard charts, going gold in the U.S. and garnering the band another four Grammy Awards. In the wake of Wasting Light, several other Foo projects emerged — a limited-edition compilation of covers called Medium Rare released for Record Store Day 2011; a documentary of the band called Back and Forth — and the group toured the album into 2012.

In 2012, the Foo Fighters announced they were taking a hiatus and Dave Grohl immediately returned to the confines of Queens of the Stone Age, drumming on their 2013 album ...Like Clockwork. He also threw himself into directing a documentary about the legendary Los Angeles recording studio Sound City. The film appeared early in 2013 to positive reviews, and it was accompanied by a soundtrack called Sound City: Reel to Real, which featured Grohl-directed jams including a variety of Sound City veterans, plus Paul McCartney. Not long after its release, the Foo Fighters announced their hiatus had ended and they were working on a new album. Sonic Highways, released late in 2014, was their most ambitious project yet; each track was recorded in a different city, some with special featured guests, a process documented on an eight-episode documentary series for HBO. Sonic Highways saw international release in early November 2014.

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