Dave Grohl kertoo Panteran vaikutuksesta Foo Fightersiin

Hiljattain uuden ”Concrete And Gold” -albuminsa julkaisseen rock-yhtye Foo Fightersin keulakuva Dave Grohl kertoi Planet Rockille Panteran ja edesmenneen Dimebag Darrellin vaikutuksesta yhtyeeseensä. Tavattuaan miehen ja tämän bändin Grohl sai idean sille, millaista henkeä hän halusi omalle bändilleen. Grohl kertoo:

”Basically, the way the Foo Fighters work, we get along with everybody. For years, we’ve always been that band, when we get backstage at a festival, the first thing I do is I pick up a bottle of whiskey and I just walk around banging on dressing-room doors to see who’s fun, to see who’s cool. It could be Tricky, or it could be Muse or it could be… whatever — I just look for pals.

Actually, that’s something I learned from Pantera. Back in the day, we did a show with Pantera and we became friends and I would go see them on tour all the time. And I realized that you’d be backstage at a Pantera show and there’d be, like, Marilyn Manson is in that corner, and Kato Kaelin is in that corner, and Britney Spears is in [that corner]… Everybody loved to hang with Pantera. So, to me, that was the coolest thing about them — they were the sweetest people and they had this open-door policy.

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But also with our band, we don’t really plan too much when it comes to making music. So when you’re at a studio, like the studio where we recorded, every week there was someone else in there. Like, Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple was down the hall with Jason Bonham, and then Joe Bonamassa and then Lady Gaga is over there and then Wolf Alice is over here and Rufus Wainwright is over there. So the three months we were there, we were meeting all these people, we were drinking in the parking lot, we were outside smoking, and you just make friends, and it’s literally that easy”