![]() ![]() The basic melody was in place but the whole song structurally was very loose at this stage, at least in one of the three takes recorded. Three distinct takes of ‘New Way Home’ were recorded with one instrumental version featuring the louder, faster part as an intro rather than being towards the end. An early version of ‘My Poor Brain’, a song that was given a live debut in April 1996, featured a slightly longer intro and also ran at a slower tempo, but was otherwise a completed song at this stage, including almost final lyrics. For pre-production work, this didn’t make financial sense and so the band instead decided to spend around a week back in Jones studio, getting the music and themselves prepared for the real deal.ĭemo versions of most, if not all songs later featured on ‘The Colour And The Shape’ were recorded. Since then the preferred recording location had been Robert Lang Studios, although Dave did always take Jones along with him to engineer and produce. Grohl had last visited his friend’s studio in the summer of 1994, recording demo versions of then-new songs which he’d then re-record. Before booking time in a costly professional studio to record the album for real Foo Fighters headed to Grohl’s old haunt – Barrett Jones Laundry Room Studio in Seattle. By late 1996 Grohl had many new ideas for songs, with several of them having already been demoed or played live. ![]() ![]() With the 18-month world tour for the first album complete and Dave Grohl’s side project ‘Touch’ also finished focus turned back to Foo Fighters recording their first full album as a band. ![]()
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