Foo Fighters will play a special show this weekend for Record Store Day.
Dave Grohl is the official ambassador of Record Store Day 2015. The Foo Fighters frontman will lead the festivities on the day, which takes place on April 18 and celebrates the culture of independent record shops.
As well as a four-track 10 inch release, the group will play a show in Ohio, near Dave Grohl Alley, a street named after the band’s frontman.
The band have announced via Twitter that they’ll play Record Connection in Niles, Ohio on Saturday at 12pm local time. See the tweet below and find out more information at the band’s website.
Foos Live! @recordstoreday Sat. 4/18. Record Connection – Niles, OH. Info here: http://t.co/VCC7vQC8FH #RSD15 pic.twitter.com/DcmmYwXSP3
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) April 15, 2015
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Grohl discussed the previously unheard ‘Empty Handed’ and other early versions on the release. “I’d never been the singer of a band and I’d never been the principal songwriter of a band,” he said. “So to me it was just this private experiment, not something that I wanted lots of people to hear, because I didn’t necessarily like my voice.”
He continued: “When you’re in a band with the greatest songwriter of your generation, you don’t want to be the guy saying, ‘Look at my songs, too,'” referencing his years in Nirvana with Kurt Cobain. “So I would record them and put them away. But it was fun to do. I’ve recorded stuff and just erased it.”
Of his early recordings as the Foo Fighters, he explained: “It was just something to do in between tours when I was playing with Nirvana. By the time Nirvana was over, I had, I don’t know, 20, 30, 40 of these recordings that no one had ever heard. There’s a lot more than just those [Laundry Room 10-inch] songs. I think the songs that we picked for the Record Store Day album were maybe picked out of 15 or 20 others that no one’s ever heard.” The release will also include a cover of Kim Wilde‘s 1981 single ‘Kids In America’.
For more information and a full list of this year’s Record Store Day release schedule, visit recordstoreday.co.uk