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I was writing about time. And how much has passed and feeling born again, feeling like a survivor, thinking about mortality and death and life, and how beautiful it is to be surrounded by friends and family and making music." Foo Fighters "Wasting Light" @ CDJapan". CDJapan.co.jp. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011 . Retrieved March 13, 2012. a b Diehl, Matt (December 23, 2010). "Foo Fighters Reunite, Play New Songs at Secret Show". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 21, 2014 . Retrieved January 15, 2012.

Foo Fighters Go Garage Band on 'Wasting Light' // The Observer". The Observer. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016 . Retrieved June 3, 2015. Thor': Foo Fighters take a 'Walk' with Marvel film". Los Angeles Times. April 15, 2011. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011 . Retrieved November 3, 2011. Italian album certifications – Foo Fighters – Wasting Light" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Halperin, Shirley (December 23, 2011). "THR Music Editor's Top 10 Albums of 2011". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012 . Retrieved January 10, 2012. a b Ryan, Kyle (April 12, 2011). "Foo Fighters: Wasting Light". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011 . Retrieved April 12, 2011.The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Foo Fighters; 'Wasting Light ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien . Retrieved June 20, 2021. Chris really likes Vox AC30s, though he used a Marshall now and then. We tried this brand‑new amp by this small boutique company Audio Kitchen and it sounded great — Chris used it on a couple of songs and Dave used it on three or four songs. It's just got a really cool tone. You don't necessarily have to turn it up loud to get a saturated sound on it. All the controls are very interactive between the tone and the boost and the bottom end. The guy who makes it sent us two — one was called the Big Chopper and the other was called the Little Chopper, but both great amps.” The full Wasting Light production team, from left: Foos frontman Dave Grohl, former Nirvana bassist Krist Nolosevic, engineer James R Brown, mix engineer Alan Moulder and producer Butch Vig.

Top Selling Albums of 2011". Recorded Music NZ. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013 . Retrieved March 21, 2021. For his part, Butch Vig took some convincing. "Well, the first day we sat down and talked about it,” the producer laughs, "he dropped one bombshell: 'I wanna do it in my garage.' I thought, Well, he's probably got a pretty nice garage. So we went down to his house and opened it up — and it's just a shitty little rectangular room, about 18 feet by 20 feet or something. Hard, dry wall. It just sounded like a trashy garage. But we put up a drum kit and four mics and Dave started playing and it sounded good. Really intense, because the room is small and the sound pressure was just super‑crushing loud. Then he dropped the second bombshell: 'I want to do it on tape.' I was like, 'OK...' — in my head, thinking what we'll do is we'll probably record on tape and then dump it into Pro Tools.” Musiikkituottajat – Tilastot – Myydyimmät levyt 2011" (in Finnish). IFPI Finland. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012 . Retrieved March 3, 2021. IFPI". Hitparáda – TOP50 Prodejní (in Czech). IFPI Czech Republic. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012 . Retrieved April 20, 2011.Despite the various trials along the way, though, both Vig and the Foo Fighters are clearly very happy with the distinctively live‑sounding, comparatively raw production of Wasting Light. "People say it sounds honest, unlike anything they've heard lately,” Vig states. "I think we're just used to hearing everything so tight and perfect and Auto‑Tuned these days. That sounds great, but this sounds real somehow.” a b Treuen, Jason (April 12, 2011). "Foo Fighters: The TMN interview Artists". The Music Network. Archived from the original on September 12, 2012 . Retrieved August 13, 2011. Full Report From The 2012 WWE Hall Of Fame Ceremony". Wrestling Inc. March 31, 2012. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012 . Retrieved April 1, 2012. FOO FIGHTERS: WASTING LIGHT DEBUTS AT #1 IN TWELVE COUNTRIES". RCA Records. 2011-04-20. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02 . Retrieved 2012-01-15.

Album Review: "Wasting Light" by Foo Fighters". The Owl Mag. April 5, 2011. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016 . Retrieved June 3, 2015. Peters, Mitchell (2011-03-25). "Foo Fighters: The Billboard Cover Story". Billboard . Retrieved 2011-08-13. Twenty years on from the landmark recording of Nevermind, Wasting Light sees Grohl reunited with that album's producer, Butch Vig and — for the first time since Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994 — his former Nirvana bandmate, bassist Krist Novoselic. Two strict conditions were imposed upon the making of Wasting Light: Grohl insisted that it had to be recorded entirely to tape and, if that wasn't enough of a headache‑provoking scenario for Vig, entirely in the Foos' frontman's two‑car garage at his home in Encino.I was worried 'cause I'd got so used to mixing from Pro Tools,” he admits. "I was slightly nervous about it, with it being such a big record. But it was a relative challenge, and I remembered there were things that were great about tape. It makes you work in a different way. You don't get so bogged down because you can't keep looping around the same sections. I really love what tape does to the vocals, how it rounds them off. You don't get all the transients that pop out and thump your compressor.”