Foo Fighters: Back and Forth Page #4

---

Each song would have a different line-up.

Instead of getting a bus for the first tour...

"We'll get a van. "

I'd never done a bus tour, so to me it was

totally obvious, "Yeah, we'll get a van.

"What, we get to buy a brand new one?

Ha! Awesome!"

We played six shows a week,

and the places held maybe anywhere

from 300 to 600 people,

and Foo Fighters were making

As the tour was going on,

the venues were getting bigger,

and we started having that

really nice but weird sort of pressure.

There was a lot of attention,

because it was Dave's first tour after Nirvana.

The shows had

all of these Nirvana fans that came.

They didn't know the songs

because the record hadn't been out yet.

So there was a song called Marigold

by Nirvana,

that Dave had written and sang on.

It was the only thing they knew to yell out

when we were playing.

So you'd just hear, "Marigold!"

Marigold! Marigold! Marigold!

Shut up!

And we never played it.

How weird that must have been for Dave.

Arriving in record stores Tuesday

was one of the most buzzed-about

new releases of the year,

the self-titled debut album by Nirvana drummer

Dave Grohl's new band, Foo Fighters,

who wowed crowds

on Mike Watt's recent club tour.

Personally, to me, it was a big deal

when that record came out,

because rather than go in

and record something as a band,

we used the stuff I had recorded on my own.

That cassette.

That's the first record.

Making their network television debut

right here with us,

we couldn't be happier,

ladies and gentlemen, Foo Fighters.

Hi, Jena!

And the winner is...

Foo Fighters, Big Me.

I would like to think of this award

as some sort of closure, it's...

Stop throwing Mentos at us at our shows.

That's what I'm trying to say.

There were lots of interviews and,

you know,

Dave not wanting to talk about Nirvana.

Every question in every interview

was about Nirvana.

You can imagine what they were,

like, "Is this song about Kurt?"

Take any song from the record.

"Is that song about Kurt Cobain?"

What's it like to be at a press conference

and not be asked any questions?

Fine with me,

because I didn't wanna answer

any of the questions that were asked.

There were some people

that really resented me for starting this band.

"How dare you f***ing start another band. "

They asked me, like,

"Why did you decide to carry on

"and make music that sounds like Nirvana?"

I said, "Well, wait a minute.

"What do you mean,

like loud rock guitars and melodies

"and cymbals crashing and big-ass drums?

"'Cause that's what I do.

"That's... I was in that band and this is, like...

That's what I do.

"You want me to f***in' make

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes