After 16 months on the road, the Foo Fighters are feeling a bit like a broken record, so the rock band plans to spend the spring in frontman Dave Grohl's Virginia home studio laying down some fresh wax.
"We just finished touring for a year
and a half, [so] it's time to write more than the 22 songs we play every night of our f*ckin' lives," Grohl said last week.
The follow-up to 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose is expected to hit stores in late 2001 or early 2002, a band spokesperson said. Lose won the Grammy for Best Rock Album last week, while the video for the single "Learn to Fly" nabbed the trophy for Best Short Form Music Video.
Meanwhile, Grohl continues to work on his death-metal side project, Probot, while also assembling the soundtrack to the upcoming drama The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Starring Jodie Foster, the film concerns a group of Catholic school pranksters who plan a robbery to make themselves local legends.
Probot's music combines instrumental tracks recorded by Grohl and Adam Kasper (engineer, mixer, and producer of There Is Nothing Left to Lose) with the voices of such heavy-metal rockers as Slayer's Tom Araya, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, and Celtic Frost's Thomas Gabriel Warrior. No release date has been set.
Guitar manufacturer Gibson honored Grohl as Best Rock Guitarist (Male) last week at the 2001 Orville H. Gibson Awards.
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