Image Courtesy of RecordStoreDay.comThis Record Store Day will see the release of a never-before heard Foo Fighters song called "Empty Head." Along with demos of early Foos singles "Alone + Easy Target" and "Big Me," plus a cover of Kim Wilde's "Kids in America," "Empty Head" will appear on the band's RSD release, a 10-inch EP entitled Songs from the Laundry Room.
As it turns out, Songs from the Laundry Room is not a figurative title -- in his D.C. hardcore days, Foo frontman Dave Grohl would record with a friend named Barrett Jones, who had a four-track studio set up in the laundry room of his parents' house.
"I think we put the instruments in [Jones'] bedroom and the control room was in the laundry room in the basement of his parents' house," Grohl tells Rolling Stone. "So he was just our guy. He was the Quincy Jones of Arlington, Virginia."
Both Grohl and Jones then moved to Seattle in the early '90s, where they became roommates.
"I had his eight-track studio in my basement at my house, and I would go downstairs every time I came home from tours and he and I would record songs," Grohl remembers. "That's how the Foo Fighters started, really."
"It was just something to do in between tours when I was playing with Nirvana," he continues. "By the time Nirvana was over, I had, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 of these recordings that no one had ever heard. There's a lot more than just those [Laundry Room] songs. I think the songs that we picked for the Record Store Day album were maybe picked out of 15 or 20 others that no one's ever heard."
In addition to releasing Songs from the Laundry Room, Grohl will act as the official ambassador of this year's Record Store Day. RSD 2015 will be held April 18 in independent record stores across the country.
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