Inside The Foo Fighters
b'Being in a band seems straightforward\\u2026you pick up some instruments and start playing\\u2026but it\\u2019s much more complicated than that\\u2026the music that you end up making is influenced by so many outside forces\\u2026where you grew up\\u2026what music you listened to as a kid\\u2026what music you listen to now\\u2026the city in which you\\u2019re writing songs\\u2026the city in which you\\u2019re recording those songs\\u2026\\n\\nAll these factors (and more!) Affect the music you make\\u2026but how?...and fans love this stuff\\u2026they love to know what other bands influenced their favorite musicians\\u2026it\\u2019s all part of the understanding and discovery of music\\u2026\\n\\nThe Foo Fighters know this\\u2026and they set out to document all the stuff that goes into one particular album: Sonic Highways\\u2026eight songs recorded in eight different cities\\u2026and not only did they make a record, but they made an HBO tv series documenting the whole process\\u2026\\n\\nHere\\u2019s how it worked:\\xa0 the band set up in a new city for each of the eight songs on the record\\u2026they\\u2019d hang out, talk with musicians from that city\\u2026and then at the end of the week, Dave would sit down with a transcription of the conversations he\\u2019d had and then sort of cut\\u2019n\\u2019paste words and phrases from those conversations into what would become the lyrics for that song\\u2026and then the band would get to work on the song\\u2026\\n\\nIt was a very, very interesting way to make a record\\u2014and the process also laid bare the influences that went into writing these songs as well as digging into the influences that made each member of the foo fighters who they are as musicians and who they are as people\\u2026\\n\\nI had a chance to talk to the whole band about all the different things that make the Foo Fighters the Foo Fighters\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'