I just feel and see everything differently now.' Anyone who's a father understands how the world becomes a different place when your child is born. This is about reawakening after becoming a father. 'On the last album we split the acoustic side and the electric side into two albums. You can almost dance to this one, and there aren't too many Foo Fighters songs you can do that to.' I grew up listening to the Beatles and Beach Boys and I love writing simple melodies. In order to have songs like Let It Die or Erase/Replace, which are darker and heavier, you need to have the lighter side of things too, like this one. 'I wrote this while we were on our acoustic tour. So, just as I'll sit at a drum kit and play beats, I sit with a guitar and try the same thing. I can write riffs all day long because I look at the guitar like a drum set. As a drummer and a guitar player, the rhythmic quality of a decent riff is like a cannon to me.

'I still listen to Kill 'Em All once a week and there's a part of me that will never lose the love of riffs. Usually you.have a few parameters you're afraid to pass but, this time, there was no fear of going too far.' So we did everything we could to really magnify all those elements and that was fun. If we had a beautiful melody, we'd throw a fucking string quartet in there. We wanted the stops to be pin-drop silent before exploding. When Gil came over to America, we sat at a table and listened to demos for a week and half and just picked the most powerful, dramatic songs. 'We had 30 or 40 song ideas when'we started recording. It's not Bohemian Rhapsody it's a basic four-part rock song with a Chuck Berry breakdown in the middle. It's the sort of song that this band is all about. I had this melodic idea and just went ahead with it, thinking the album needed a four minute blast of rock! We fucking threw this together in an hour. 'The album took us about a month to record, and this was recorded toward the end of that session. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

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