Hi, I'm Pat Smear.
Taylor Hawkins here.
And we are at Voodoo Fest.
That's easy.
"Sunday Rain".
(laughing) Come on.
(clears throat)
You tell the story.
Dave was writing songs and then we would get together
and put them together and write them as a band
and kind of finesse 'em, put them together,
and he said, "I want you to sing this song,"
and I said, "Oh! Okay, cool."
I sing every once in a while, and I said,
"Well you should play drums on it.
"If I'm gonna sing it, you should play drums."
And so originally that was the plan,
and then someone in our little recording group-
I think it was the engineer, Darrell, who said,
"Well you know, Paul McCartney's gonna be in town
"because he records with Greg as well,"
and he said, "He should play drums on it."
A lot of people don't think of Paul McCartney as a drummer,
but he actually is a drummer.
He played all the drums on Man on the Run,
he played on a couple Beatles songs,
like, Back in the USSR and couple of other ones,
and it was just kind of a funny twist
and then yes, of course that was the most interesting one
to record and watch.
That was when we did it live all together in the same room
and we were like, "Yeah, that's it."
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah.
And we only did it... twice?
Twice, yeah.
Twice.
And he didn't even know the song.
Dave started to show him and started to break it down
and Paul's like, "Ah, it's okay. Let's just play the song."
And we just played it.
Taylor conducted him and we played the song
and we were like, "That was good."
And then we do it again
'cause I think he just needed to do it again
and we did it again and then we were done.
It was cool. It was the most fun.
I think there's good stuff out there,
but I think you have to really go hunt for it.
I mean, when I was in high school,
like Guns 'n Roses was the biggest band in the world
and the biggest thing on the radio.
Um, obviously that's not the kind of thing
that's happening right now.
I always like to think that
there's a Kurt Cobain somewhere in his parents' basement,
hating his parents and hating the world,
getting ready to, like, rewrite rock and roll
with a guitar and a bass and a drum set.
Because I love rock and roll and I like the feel,
and we- I know we both do, like, in our band in general.
Like, you know, we like a human feel to music,
and I feel like- no pun intended-
I feel like that, uh... that's kind of missing a lot,
and it just so happens that right now
hip-hop and sort of throwaway pop music-
well, I call it throwaway pop music-
um, my kids wouldn't, but I do-
just happens to be what's at the top of the charts
for the most part,
except for a couple of weeks ago when we had a number one record!
You know, I don't know, I don't remember where it was,
it was the US or somewhere,
but I remember, because everyone asks us,
"Is rock dead?" "Are you keeping rock alive?"
and our album went to number one somewhere, and...
A couple of places.
Yes, we did good.
But there was one place in particular
where the top 3 albums were all rock albums.
I'm like, "What happened to rock is dead?"
I mean, this is...
They've been saying that to us since the late 90s.
I mean, I remember doing interviews
for Nothing Left to Lose and some German guy said,
"So why do you play rock music still?
"It's dead form of art.
"You know it's dance music now, correct?
"You don't know that.
"You guys are playing a dead form of music."
And we're like, "Well, it's not dead at our shows.
"It's alive and well."
Like I said,
hopefully there's some genius pissed off at the world,
ready to take it all up again.
Dude.
Thank you very much, Fuse-r users.
We are the Foo Fighters-
well, at least two of them.
I'm not really Pat Smear, I'm Taylor Hawkins.
I'm Taylor Hawkins too.
Oh god.
(laughter)
And uh, thank you very much for having us in your room-
in your living room.
Or on your computer.
Or whatever.
-On your phone. -On your phone.
Thanks for having us on your phone.
Thanks for having us on your iPad.
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