David Grohl of the Foo Fighters: “In Your Honor” a Tribute to John Kerry
25 June 2005
There’s been bits and pieces in the news the past few weeks about the Foo Fighters new album being a tribute to John Kerry.
Spin Magazine has a recent interview with David Grohl, the front man for the Foo Fighters that includes a little Q&A about the campaign, the election and how Grohl was inspired by his experiences on the campaign trail.
Excerpt from Q & A: Dave Grohl
By: Andrew Beaujon
June 24, 2005
I've read that the title of your new album is a tribute to John Kerry.
A few of the songs were written when I came home from the campaign trail. Every day, before he got up to speak, I'd go play acoustic music. And the audiences weren't Foo Fighters audiences. The front row was World War II veterans and teacher's unions and blue-collar workers. I came back from that so inspired by the people and the real emotion and the feeling of a small community all coming together for an honorable reason. That's where the title came from.
Were you crushed after the election?
Fuck, yes. I wanted to riot. But rather than write an angry Rage Against the Machine record, I wanted to give a sense of hope and release and faith. One of the reasons I did that with the Kerry campaign was because I was personally offended that George Bush was using
"Times Like These" at his campaign rallies. We were trying to think of a way to get him to stop. "Fuck, man, I'm gonna send the president a cease and desist order." I wrote that fucking song. I know what I'm singing about, and it basically mirrored what John Kerry's campaign was trying to represent.
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