Dave Grohl Explains Background of Recording “Everlong”

Credit: Hayley MaddenFoo Fighters have a ton of hits, but their 1997 single "Everlong," featured on the band's sophomore album, The Colour and the Shape, is always mentioned as one of the band's best songs. As Dave Grohl explains, the track's iconic riff came from a recording session for another Foo Fighters hit.

"I remember coming up with the riff while we were recording 'Monkey Wrench,'" Grohl says in a video interview for NME. "In between takes, I was fooling around and I found that chord, and I was doing it and I thought, 'Oh, that just sounds like Sonic Youth.' Then I was really into it and I formed it into a 'song-song.'"

The legend of "Everlong" was further bolstered by its famously weird video, directed by Michel Gondry. As it turns out, the "Everlong" video could have been a whole lot stranger.

"You should have seen what Michel Gondry wanted to do," Grohl says. "The idea, he pitched it to me, it took him an hour to explain it, and I had to tell him, 'Dude, you know the song's four f****** minutes long, right?'"

"[Actress] Daryl Hannah was supposed to be my love interest!" he adds.

Foo Fighters are currently on tour in support of their latest album, Sonic Highways.

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