Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl appeared on 60 Minutes last night, Oct. 26, alongside Anderson Cooper, who was digging into the singer's latest HBO series Sonic Highways. A shining moment from the interview came when Grohl was explaining how his post-Nirvana band got its name, which he called "the dumbest band name ever."
"I called it Foo Fighters because I didn't want to put my name on it at first," Grohl said about the band's 1995 self-titled debut, on which he played every instrument. "I didn't want people to say, 'Oh, that's the guy from Nirvana.'"
Cooper then asks how Grohl actually arrived at Foo Fighters.
"Had I imagined that it would last more than a month and a half, I might have named it something else," he says in the video below around the 10:10 mark, Rolling Stone noted. "It's the dumbest band name ever."
Most of the clip centers around the band's trip to New Orleans for their TV series. The episode will air Nov. 21, 11 days after the release of their eighth studio album. The record will include the eight songs Grohl and Co. wrote at the different cities they traveled to for the show — see the full tracklist below.
"The musical history of this country is deep," Grohl said. "And there's so much of it that I honestly feel like if music were more a part of our daily lives, this country would be a better place."
Foo Fighters have a handful of dates left for 2014, according to their website:
Sonic Highways Tracklist
1. Something from Nothing
2. The Feast and the Famine
3. Congregation
4. What Did I Do?/God as My Witness
5. Outside
6. In the Clear
7. Subterranean
8. I Am a River
