Professor of Rock

How Foo Fighters Scrapped a $1M Album to Create “Times Like These”


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The Foo Fighters spent over a million dollars on their hyped new album, but they had to throw it away to write their opus: Times Like These. Coming up, they wrestled, creating an album that should have been the biggest of its time. But after a year of work, they trashed it because the band hated it. The songs were infamously called the Million Dollars Demo, but to make matters even worse, the band was about to kill each other. They were about to throw down. So here they were, 3 albums into their career, and it seemed like they were done. Dave Grohl was touring with Queens of the Stone Age, then somehow they found their magic and recorded 14 songs in a few days... including their magnum opus Times Like These, which wouldn’t have happened without all the adversity. But years later, the song means even more… Find out why next on Professor of Rock.


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