Dave Grohl is a fairly easygoing, good-natured guy. He's constantly smiling or cracking jokes, and even when he's busy with some hard-core onstage shredding, he still maintains his affable, everydude vibe. All that said, there are only two things
that make him very, very angry — and he had to do both of them in the video for the Foo Fighters' new single, "D.O.A."
"There are only two things I hate in life: one is being strapped into anything, and the other is going upside down. And we did both of those, like 15 or 20 times, all day long," he sighed. "We're strapped into this rotating room, and we've got these harnesses on underneath our clothes, and we've got these cables that went down through our pants and hook into the steel-grate floor. On the second take, I was upside down and I was like 'Hold up everybody! I'm gonna puke!' And I heard the director say, 'No no no! Keep going!' So they cranked the music and I had to keep going. It sucked."
Somehow, Grohl and the rest of the Foos made it through the "D.O.A." shoot, directed with near vomit-inducing tenacity by newcomer Mike Palmieri (see "Foo Fighters Brave 'Barf Ball' For Gravity-Defying Video"), and the end result is an eye-popping clip that they're extremely proud of.
"The whole thing looks awesome, though. Michael is a great director who hasn't done a whole lot of videos," Grohl said. "He's probably best known for that Bravery video ['An Honest Mistake' — see 'The Bravery Bring Today's Technology To Yesterday's Sounds'], but he'll be famous one day. His mind works overtime, and his treatment was insane. When it comes to putting performance in a video, you're like 'OK, what can we do that no one's really done before?' And sometimes, you have to strap yourself into a rotating barf ball to do something no one else has done."
But it's not wholly original. For vignettes interspersed throughout the video, the Foos don costumes and flex their acting muscles. Bassist Nate Mendel plays a card shark and drummer Taylor Hawkins assumes the role of a businessman, but it's Grohl's role — a solemn waiter on a train — that'll have fans reminiscing about the band's earlier clips.
"I know, I played a flight attendant in the 'Learn to Fly' video, and now I'm a waiter in this one," Grohl said. "I should've been a waiter [in real life]. Who knows? I'll probably get there soon."
The Foo Fighters just kicked off their co-headlining tour with Weezer last week in Duluth, Georgia, (see "Weezer, Foos Bring Arena-Rock Spectacle To Foozer (WeeFighters?) Tour Kickoff") and they'll be on the road for the foreseeable future. But they've already made plans to work with Palmieri again on the video for their next single, "Resolve," though Grohl is less than psyched about the whole thing.
"We asked Michael to come up with another treatment, and he made another great one," he sighed. "He's promised that it's going to be another uncomfortable performance."
This report is from MTV News.
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