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}} ''Wasting Light'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released on April 12, 2011 on RCA Records, and is the first album to feature rhythm guitarist Pat Smear since ''The Colour and the Shape'' (1997), making the band a five piece with the album. Wishing to capture the essence of the group's earlier work and avoid the artificiality of digital recording, frontman Dave Grohl arranged for the band to record in his garage in Encino, California using only analog equipment. The sessions were supervised by producer Butch Vig, with whom Grohl had worked on Nirvana's ''Nevermind''. Since the old equipment did not allow for many mistakes to be corrected in post-production, the band spent three weeks rehearsing the songs, and Vig had to relearn outdated editing techniques. The band went for a heavier and rawer sound to contrast with the musical experiments from their previous albums, and most of the lyrics were written as Grohl reflected upon his life and possible future. Guest musicians include Bob Mould, Krist Novoselic, Jessy Greene, Rami Jaffe and Fee Waybill. The recording sessions were documented for fans on the band's website and Twitter, and the album's promotion included the documentary ''Back and Forth'' and a worldwide concert tour that included concerts played in fans' garages. ''Wasting Light'' was preceded by the successful single "Rope", which became only the second song ever to debut at number one on ''Billboard''s Rock Songs chart. The follow-up single, "Walk", also charted highly. The album was a commercial success, debuting at number one in eleven countries, and it received positive reviews from most music critics, who complimented its production and the band's songwriting. In 2012, ''Wasting Light'' and its songs earned Foo Fighters five Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album. ==Background== After the ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' tour ended in 2008, the Foo Fighters went to Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood to record 14 compositions written during the tours so as to possibly release a new album without much promotion and touring. The band eventually decided to take a break instead of continuing to work on those recordings. Three songs from those sessions saw a later release: "Wheels" and "Word Forward", were rerecorded for the band's ''Greatest Hits'' album, and "Rope" became a part of ''Wasting Light''. As "Wheels" and "Word Forward" were the reunion of frontman Dave Grohl with producer Butch Vig, who had previously worked with Nirvana on their breakthrough album ''Nevermind'', Grohl thought it was finally time to bring Vig to produce the next Foo Fighters album.〔 The idea of a new album came back in 2010, as frontman Dave Grohl was touring Australia with Them Crooked Vultures. Grohl decided that "we should make a documentary about the recording of this new album and make it a history of the band too. Rather than just record the album in the most expensive studio with the most state-of-the-art equipment, what if Butch and I were to get back together after 20 years and dust off the tape machines and put them in my garage?"〔"(2011 PREVIEW: FOO FIGHTERS MAKING MUSIC TO BREAK INTO CARS TO )". ''Q'', November 2010〕 Grohl later elaborated that Vig was brought in so the record could be "that one album that kinda defines the band: it might not be their best album, but it's the one people identify the band with the most, like ''Back In Black'' or the Metallica Black Album. It's like you take all of the things that people consider your band's signature characteristics and just amplify them and make one simple album with that. And that's sorta what I thought we could do with Butch, because Butch has a great way of trimming all the fat and making sense of it all."〔 Grohl also used the tour with the Vultures to turn song ideas into demos, which were then brought to drummer Taylor Hawkins to be further developed.〔("I have all these huge fucking riffs, I can scream for three hours... LET'S GO!" ), ''Classic Rock'', May 2011〕 The album would also mark the return of guitarist Pat Smear as a permanent member; Smear left the Foo Fighters after the release of ''The Colour and the Shape'', but had been part of the touring band since 2006.〔 Unlike the band's previous two albums, ''Wasting Light'' was recorded in Dave Grohl's garage in Encino, California, as opposed to the band's home-built studio, Studio 606. Regarding this decision, Grohl states: "There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. Why go into the most expensive studio with the biggest producer and use the best state-of-the-art equipment? Where's the rock'n'roll in that?" Grohl added it was a way to "do something really primal sounding",〔 innovate, break people's expectations and "make records the way we used to fucking make records". The album was recorded using entirely analogue equipment until post-mastering. Grohl said it was done that way because he felt digital recording was getting out of control: "when I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine- it kinda sucks the life out of music."〔 According to Grohl, the analog strategy would make the record "sound rawer and somewhat imperfect",〔 something which guitarist Chris Shiflett agreed was beneficial, declaring that "rock n'roll is about flaws and imperfections".〔 Bassist Nate Mendel added that "we grew up making records on tape, which has a certain sound, certain limitations",〔 and drummer Taylor Hawkins said that the digital recording in contemporary rock n' roll lead to an artificial sound : "they kinda played it and then how someone else manipulated it in a computer, to make them sound a certain way."〔 Hawkins believed an analog project would help the band reclaim its artistic freedom.〔 Once Vig learned about the analog project, at first he considered Grohl was joking,〔"The Garbage super-producer on recording the Foo Fighters' new album Wasting Light" ''Rhythm'' - June 2011〕 but then replied that "You guys have to play really well, because nothing is gonna be fixed" since mistakes are not as easily correctable as in a digital recording.〔 With that in mind, the band spent three weeks doing pre-production and rehearsals at Studio 606, where the composition was completed, going "from forty songs to fourteen", and said songs were rehearsed to be recorded live, while in previous records, as put by Mendel, "we'd often come up with parts in the studio, and the songs would evolve".〔〔Fox, Brian. "Mendelian Genesis", ''Bass Player'', August 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wasting Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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