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"We've been so busy. First we did some promotion in the US from early morning to late night. When we finished in the evening we started practicing the new tracks. Then we did a video for three days. And now we are gonna do some promotion in Europe," says Dave Grohl, while adjusting his hat. "Well, I'm gonna have to go now, see you later!"

The Foo's new album 'There Is Nothing Left To Lose', which was recorded in Grohl's own studio in Virginia, has been on the streets for no more than a month. "We didn't use any modern technology in the recording, it was done in a more raw fashion. It makes it appear more honest, nothing is manipulated in any way. I'm very proud of this album, more than I have ever been before," says Grohl.

After residing in Hollywood and Seattle, Grohl returned to his home in Virginia when the work on the new album got under way. "Hollywood is a fun place to hang out, but you get sick of it. It's fucking fake. As for Seattle, I felt like a foreigner. No, I missed the things that really mattered, the East Coast, NYC, D.C., and I missed mom's cookies."

First Pat Smear left the band, then Frank Stahl was more less kicked out. "Pat didn't want to tour with us any longer...he's also a little bit older than us," says Grohl with a smile. "It was something different with Frank. We were trying to find the right match for the band, and it was really horrible telling him that that we didn't want him in the band anymore. It was like breaking up with your girlfriend," explains Taylor Hawkins.

Grohl on today's music industry: "I'm almost more angry today than when I was 15. It's become too easy becoming a popstar today. I don't mind people like Marilyn Manson, he brought satan back into rock'n'roll, but the bands that reach the top by their looks instead of their music...they piss me off".

Chili Magazine, December 99 - Denmark. Translated by Torben Birkmose

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As presenters has been mentioned Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, Cindy Crawford, Claire Daines, Andy Dick, Rupert Everett, John Galliano, Heather Graham, and Matt LeBlanc. The show will air live on VH1 from New York at 9 p.m. (ET).

Dave Grohl talks about videos, albums, and Nirvana

"We save a flight from disaster and we're everyone on the plane," says head Foo Fighter Dave Grohl of the video for the first single, "Learn To Fly," from There Is Nothing Left To Lose. "I have to play eight different characters. I had to get fitted for this prosthetic fat suit -- like have a cast made of my chest and neck and this shit. Then I had to get a cast made of my mouth because I'm also going to be a teenage girl with braces, which is a secret fantasy I've always had." For the last few months the other thing that Grohl has wanted probably even more than bent teeth has been a new Foo's guitarist. The winner is No Use For A Name slinger, Chris Shiflett, a figure in keeping - albeit a generation removed - with the punk lineage that the band enjoyed with former Germ Pat Smear in their ranks.

"He's wonderful," beams Grohl of Shiflett. "He's rocking our planet right now. We actually went though a grueling audition process, something that we had never done before. We let the word out that we needed a guitarist and got many, many, many responses and chose I think 40 people to send tapes out to. They came by and we played with every one of them. Some were great, some weren't, they were all very nice and all seemed very excited.

"We actually played with Chris early on in the process and thought, 'Wow! I hope everyone's like that!' And nobody was! So he wound up being in the band. The other day I said to him, 'So, how many guitars do you have?' And he said, 'Oh, one.' Woah! You might want to get a couple more because they're going to get thrashed onstage or you'll need another spare in case you break or drop out of tune." Grohl then took him guitar shopping in L.A.

The new album takes on board and assimilates a number of influences that the band soaked up while writing and recording. Rather than being cagey, Grohl is more than happy to act as tour guide. "One of our favorite, favorite, most favorite bands is a band from here in California called Queens of the Stone Age. They just made one of the most soulful, groove-orientated, heavy, hard rock albums you've ever heard," he explains. "It just felt like comfortable insanity and so we were listening to a lot of that. There was that heavy element. Then I'm a sucker for '70s solo recording artists. I really am. People like Andrew Gold who sang 'Lonely Boy' or Gerry Rafferty, who sang 'Baker Street' things like that. So, yeah, that had something to do with it too. That and a lot of death metal. So you can find your way in there somewhere."

Grohl's pop tastes have always been the line in the sand that's separated Nirvana's base from that of the Foo Fighters. But the notion that the shadow of Nirvana is now another age away from the backyard the Foos are currently plowing is not something Grohl will endorse.

"Well to me it's not because it was such an enormous part of my life. To a lot of people I think the music is still alive and important but things, you know, move on... You'll always miss it, you'll always have fond memories, you'll always have bad memories. But it feels nice to go from one place to the next in your life. I think with people's perception of the band, there will always be a hint of that in me. It's nothing I would ever deny; it's nothing that I would ever want to forget. I'm so very proud to have been in that band because regardless of anything outside of the three of us I was so satisfied that I could be involved in something that created such energy within three people. It's like the greatest love affair but with three people. And no sex."

Recent moves to put the despair filled days after Kurt Cobain's death on the wide screen struck exactly the chord with Grohl that could be expected. "I think someone's trying to make a movie about a few kids who were travelling up to the memorial that was held in Seattle after Kurt died. It [his memory] means something else to me than it does to a lot of other people. To some people it's seen as...mmm...something more than human or something more than reality and it was very human and very real and very beautiful and very timeless and it would be a crime to see anyone take advantage of that."