Grohl Sees Double for Next Foos Set

07/18/2004 11:17 AM, Reuters
Melinda Newman

You never know where the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is going to show up.

Now he's playing drums on the new Nine Inch Nails album, but he is already looking ahead to the next Foos record.

Grohl tells Billboard that his band is building a studio in Los Angeles to record its next project; it had done previous albums in Grohl's basement in Virginia.

"I think it's going to be a two-record set," he says. "It's going to be 10 acoustic songs and then 10 tracks that are just koo-koo, really heavy," he says. He adds that the Foos already have a lot of acoustic material that the band has never recorded.

As for Nine Inch Nails, Grohl says Trent Reznor called to ask if he would play on the new album, and they went into Sound City Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., the next day.

"It sounds incredible," Grohl says of the NIN material. "It is first album in five years. I looked at him and said, 'What have you been doing?"'

Grohl will appear on "Bleed Through," which will be out on Interscope by year's end. NIN's last studio album, 1999's "The Fragile," has sold more than 875,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

As is well-known, Grohl isn't one to sit around. If he's not working on a Foo Fighters album, he's usually drumming for someone else, whether it be NIN, Killing Joke or Queens of the Stone Age.

"I like to keep busy. I get bored easily," he says. "But I like to think I'm selective."

Reuters/Billboard