Foo Fighters Hide Sections Of Master Tape Inside New Album 'Wasting Light'
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Written by James Conlon
Foo Fighters have revealed that pieces of the original master tape for their latest album ‘Wasting Light’ have been hidden within CD copies of the LP. The album was recorded entirely using analogue techniques in lead singer Dave Grohl’s own studio garage.
Speaking to LA Weekly, Grohl said that the band had decided to cut up the original master tape into small pieces to share it with lucky fans who had bought the record.
Grohl said: “We recorded the record in my garage to analogue tape, and probably wound up with 20-30 reels of tapes. At the end of the session I thought it would be an extraordinary move to destroy all the masters and give the pieces of the tapes to the fans.”
When asked if anything could be heard on the master tape sections, he continued: “They'd probably get one note, or one drumbeat. I mean, the pieces of tape are like an inch by an inch piece of tape. We chop it up into a million f*cking pieces...if a million people got together and put it back together, they'd get a whole album.”
‘Wasting Light’, Foo Fighter’s seventh studio album, is expected to knock Adele from the Number One spot in the UK albums chart, according to midweek figures.
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