Dave Grohl has long been a champion for authenticity in music, famously using his 2012 Grammy speech to celebrate "the human element of music," and in a recent NME interview, the Foo Fighters frontman was at it again, denouncing the recent trend of bands going on nostalgia tours to perform their old albums in full.
"F--k, man! I don't like it when a band's tour is just to play one past record," Grohl vented to NME. "I f--king hate that. I don't like it when bands do that. It's presumptuous. It's lazy."
The topic of these nostalgia tours came up when Grohl was discussing the Foo Fighters's plans for their upcoming 20th anniversary, which at one point included a re-recording of the band's self-titled 1995 debut album, which Grohl originally recorded by himself in a matter of days.
"So what if, for the 20th anniversary, we went in and re-recorded the first record — same songs, same arrangements, in sequence — but as the Foo Fighters 2014?" Grohl pondered, before mentioning that he had dismissed this plan after drummer Taylor Hawkins told him it was "the worst idea ever."
"I mean, I don't mind playing a lot of those old songs just to revisit," Grohl went on to say about the band's planned anniversary shows. "But the best way to celebrate our 20th anniversary isn't to focus on 20 years ago, but to focus on the last 20 years, meaning two years ago and six years ago and eight years ago."
Foo Fighters's upcoming studio album Sonic Highways is set for release Nov. 10 and will be the band's eighth overall, their first since 2011's Wasting Light. The album has been accompanied by an ongoing HBO documentary series of the same name, which follows the band as they record the album in eight different American cities in legendary studios.
Check out Foo Fighters's "Feast and the Famine" from Sonic Highways here:
