Dave Grohl, Times Like His by Martin James

Author:Martin James [Martin James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784187637
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

In support of the winter 1998 tour, Foo Fighters had released their third single from The Colour And The Shape. ‘My Hero’ was perhaps an obvious choice of single thanks to its radio friendly hooklines. The CD release in the UK proved to be the beginning of the band’s use of new technology as CD extras. The single included a cross platform enhanced CD portion, which featured the full-length ‘Everlong’ video, thirty seconds of the ‘Monkey Wrench’ video, and screenshots from a Brixton Academy show in November 1997. It was one of the first enhanced singles (the very first having come from south London dance-rock crossover act Transcendental Love Machine a year earlier).

Other tracks included on the single were ‘Dear Lover’ from the album sessions and ‘Baker Street’, the Gerry Rafferty song recorded by the band for their 1997 Radio 1 session. ‘Baker Street’ would later appear on the EMI artist’s compilation Come Again.

Following their Japanese dates the band flew to Australia for shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth before playing two dates in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. The band then travelled to New York for a one-off date at the Roseland Ballroom and an appearance on The Howard Stern Show.

During their rare few days off in March, they opted to go into the studio! Their first session was to record a new version of ‘Walking After You’ at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood. This was followed by a session at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California, to record the new song ‘A320’.

The reasons for the new version of ‘Walking After You’ was that it had been licensed for use in the X-Files movie. Grohl had wanted to provide the track with more emotion, having been unhappy with the original vocal track. However, he also had high hopes that this love song about his separation from Jennifer Youngblood would be the catalyst for, and soundtrack to, Mulder and Scully finally getting together!

“Having watched the show so much for so many years, you fall in love with the characters,” he says. “And I guess you sorta expect them to fall in love with each other. ‘Walking After You’ is basically an intimate sort of love song where you’re so dependent on someone else that you know, if they walk out on you, then… then you’re walking after them. Because you need them. So I guess my dream was to give this to the X-Files and have them use it in a scene where Mulder and Scully finally get together (laughs). The love scene! It would be amazing to see that happen with a song that meant a lot to me playing in the background. That would be pretty beautiful.” (8)

‘Walking After You’ would be released as a limited edition single in May 1998. The flipside featured Ween playing their song ‘Beacon Light’. ‘A320’ on the other hand would eventually turn up on the soundtrack to the movie Godzilla.

“It (Godzilla) was fuckin’ lame,” laughed Grohl. “So we sat through the whole movie wondering where the hell they were going to put our song.

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