Dr.Horrible
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Not necessarily an OT so much as a reminder to music lovers and Foo Fighters fans that their new HBO series premieres on HBO this coming Friday, 10/17 at 11 p.m. EST, 10 p.m. CST.
The show documents the making of their eighth album as they traveled the country and recorded in different studios after interviewing and recording with a number of diverse stars. From what I've found, the guest stars include Willie Nelson, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Chris Martin (Coldplay), Paul Stanley (KISS) Dan Auerbach (Black Keys), Chuck D (Public Enemy), and Dolly Parton amongst others.
Each show will go something like this:
Trailers for the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TrqXHoL10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QisGE_h8lrU
Track list and guest performers (per wiki):
Track Studio, City Guest(s)
Something From Nothing Electrical Audio, Chicago Rick Nielsen
The Feast and the Famine Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA Bad Brains
Congregation Southern Ground Studios, Nashville Carrie Underwood
What Did I Do?/God as My Witness
Outside Rancho De La Luna, Los Angeles Joe Walsh
In the Clear
Subterranean Robert Lang Studios, Seattle Ben Gibbard
I Am a River The Magic Shop, New York City Chuck D
In order to promote the show the Foo have been on the David Letterman show since Monday and should be on all week. The first performance was the Foo + Zac Brown performing Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" while the second was the Foo + Heart doing Heart's "Kick it Out". Not sure what to expect tonight, but Thursday they'll be performing one of the song's off the new album
Also, after the premiere the Foo will be live streaming their premiere concert at Chicago's The Cubby Bear on Facebook. Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/hbo
Official Site:
http://www.hbo.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways#/
Letterman clips:
Dave's interview with Grohl (just alright)
http://youtu.be/x3TC_taegxs
War Pigs (pretty great)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5ekzTubwU
Kick it Out (pretty good)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qgdVZq1Pfk
Lastly, the album doesn't release until November 10th.
Tour dates announced so far are:
10/17/2014 CHICAGO, IL THE CUBBY BEAR
10/26/2014 LAS VEGAS, NV LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
11/2/2014 NEW ORLEANS, LA VOODOO FESTIVAL
12/10/2014 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA CAPE TOWN STADIUM
12/13/2014 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA FNB STADIUM
1/15/2015 SANTIAGO, CHILE ESTADIO NACIONAL
1/18/2015 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA ESTADIO UNICO DE LA PLATA
1/21/2015 PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL ESTACIONAMENTO DA FIERGS
1/23/2015 SÃO PAULO, BRASIL ESTÁDIO DO MORUMBI
1/25/2015 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL ESTÁDIO DO MARACANÃ
1/28/2015 BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL MEGA SPACE
1/31/2015 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA ESTADIO EL CAMPÍN
6/5 - 6/7/2015 NÜRBURGRING, GERMANY ROCK AM RING
The show documents the making of their eighth album as they traveled the country and recorded in different studios after interviewing and recording with a number of diverse stars. From what I've found, the guest stars include Willie Nelson, Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Chris Martin (Coldplay), Paul Stanley (KISS) Dan Auerbach (Black Keys), Chuck D (Public Enemy), and Dolly Parton amongst others.
Each show will go something like this:
"Basically, the process is we come to a city and we spend a week and we start recording an instrumental, because I interview all of these different musicians from that city," Grohl says. Next, the Foo frontman takes those interviews and transforms them into song lyrics. "I talk about the regional relevance of the music from that city, the cultural influence, that 'made-for-the-sound' of the music," Grohl adds. "There's no way that you can tell the history of a city's music in one hour, so we have to do it in a way that relates to the band and goes from point A to point B and becomes a song."
Trailers for the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TrqXHoL10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QisGE_h8lrU
This might be a good addition to the OP. If you are not from the US you can buy the show for $20.
http://buy.foofighters.com/
The episodes go online the Sunday after they aired on HBO.
Track list and guest performers (per wiki):
Track Studio, City Guest(s)
Something From Nothing Electrical Audio, Chicago Rick Nielsen
The Feast and the Famine Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA Bad Brains
Congregation Southern Ground Studios, Nashville Carrie Underwood
What Did I Do?/God as My Witness
Outside Rancho De La Luna, Los Angeles Joe Walsh
In the Clear
Subterranean Robert Lang Studios, Seattle Ben Gibbard
I Am a River The Magic Shop, New York City Chuck D
In order to promote the show the Foo have been on the David Letterman show since Monday and should be on all week. The first performance was the Foo + Zac Brown performing Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" while the second was the Foo + Heart doing Heart's "Kick it Out". Not sure what to expect tonight, but Thursday they'll be performing one of the song's off the new album
Also, after the premiere the Foo will be live streaming their premiere concert at Chicago's The Cubby Bear on Facebook. Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/hbo
Official Site:
http://www.hbo.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways#/
Letterman clips:
Dave's interview with Grohl (just alright)
http://youtu.be/x3TC_taegxs
War Pigs (pretty great)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5ekzTubwU
Kick it Out (pretty good)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qgdVZq1Pfk
Lastly, the album doesn't release until November 10th.
Tour dates announced so far are:
10/17/2014 CHICAGO, IL THE CUBBY BEAR
10/26/2014 LAS VEGAS, NV LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
11/2/2014 NEW ORLEANS, LA VOODOO FESTIVAL
12/10/2014 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA CAPE TOWN STADIUM
12/13/2014 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA FNB STADIUM
1/15/2015 SANTIAGO, CHILE ESTADIO NACIONAL
1/18/2015 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA ESTADIO UNICO DE LA PLATA
1/21/2015 PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL ESTACIONAMENTO DA FIERGS
1/23/2015 SÃO PAULO, BRASIL ESTÁDIO DO MORUMBI
1/25/2015 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL ESTÁDIO DO MARACANÃ
1/28/2015 BELO HORIZONTE, BRASIL MEGA SPACE
1/31/2015 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA ESTADIO EL CAMPÍN
6/5 - 6/7/2015 NÜRBURGRING, GERMANY ROCK AM RING