Rise RecordsDave Grohl is one of dozens of musicians to contribute to Greatest Hits Vol. 1, the debut album from Teenage Time Killers. Grohl plays bass on the record, which also features Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182, former Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri, Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear and Lamb of God's Randy Blythe.
"It was like hardcore karaoke with a bass," Grohl tells Rolling Stone. "I just sat there, ripping to my favorite drummer [Corrosion of Conformity's] Reed Mullin and my favorite vocalists -- Randy from Lamb of God, and f****** Neil Fallon, the singer of Clutch, and Pete [Stahl], the singer of Scream."
Teenage Time Killers was co-created by Mullin. The band name is an apt one, because Mullin was Grohl's favorite drummer as a teen.
"Reed was my drumming hero when I was 15 or 16 years old," Grohl says. "Corrosion of Conformity had a record called Animosity, which was one of the defining albums of that hardcore-metal genre. It's a classic."
"This kid would approach me every time we'd play D.C.," adds Mullin. "It ended up being Dave Grohl, and he followed me around and learned how I did triplets and stuff like that. It took him, like, two weeks to figure out all the s*** I knew how to do."
Part of Greatest Hits Vol. 1 was recorded in Grohl's Studio 606 in California, the home of the famed Sound City mixing board. The Foo Fighters frontman plays bass on 11 of the album's 20 tracks.
"It's probably my favorite instrument to play standing up," Grohl says. "My schedule was crazy, so I went in and knocked out a bunch in one day. I don't even remember how many."
"It was really fun," he adds. "Then I continued doing Foo Fighters s***, Sonic Highways stuff, and a little while later, [engineer John] Lou [Lousteau] said, 'Hey, we finished mixing the Teenage Time Killers record.' I was like, 'Oh, that's right. Let me hear it.' He gave me a copy and the f****** thing was stuck in my CD player in my car for months. I listened to it every single f****** day."
Greatest Hits Vol. 1 will be released on July 31.
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