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\u201cThe Teacher\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/iframe><!-- PRX PLAYER EMBED CODE ENDS --><\/p>\n<p>For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Grohl.<\/a> We talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foo Fighters<\/a> song <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Teacher,\u201d<\/a> which is an epic, 10-minute long song. Dave told me it\u2019s the most important piece of music he\u2019s ever written, because it\u2019s dedicated to his mother, Virginia, who passed away in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters in 1994, after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nirvana_(band)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nirvana<\/a> ended. <a href=\"https:\/\/98kupd.com\/foo-fighters-set-yet-another-billboard-chart-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This year, Foo Fighters set a record for having the most Top 10 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/foo-fighters\/14694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They\u2019ve won 15 Grammy awards, including winning the Grammy for Best Rock album five times \u2014 more than anyone else.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Teacher\u201d<\/a> is from their 11th album, <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.lnk.to\/BHWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>But Here We Are<\/em>,<\/a> which came out in June 2023. I sat with Dave in the Foo Fighters practice space, and he told me the whole story of the song. Coming up, you\u2019ll hear the two voice memos he originally recorded on acoustic guitar, plus the two demos he made on his way to figuring the song out.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy or stream \u201cThe Teacher\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Foo Fighters - The Teacher\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MF6trC529M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Song-Exploder-Foo-Fighters-Transcript.pdf\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Lerma<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foo Fighters:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Grohl,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nate_Mendel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Mendel,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Shiflett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Shiflett,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Smear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Smear,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rami_Jaffee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rami Jaffee,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Freese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Freese<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregkurstin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Kurstin<\/a> \u2013 Producer<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taylor_Hawkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hawkins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.2.1) simplesharebuttons.com -->\t\t\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\t\t var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\t\t js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";\n\t\t\t\t fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/foo-fighters\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Teacher\u201d For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><!-- PRX PLAYER EMBED CODE ENDS --><\/p>\n<p>For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Grohl.<\/a> We talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foo Fighters<\/a> song <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Teacher,\u201d<\/a> which is an epic, 10-minute long song. Dave told me it\u2019s the most important piece of music he\u2019s ever written, because it\u2019s dedicated to his mother, Virginia, who passed away in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Dave Grohl started Foo Fighters in 1994, after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nirvana_(band)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nirvana<\/a> ended. <a href=\"https:\/\/98kupd.com\/foo-fighters-set-yet-another-billboard-chart-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This year, Foo Fighters set a record for having the most Top 10 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/foo-fighters\/14694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They\u2019ve won 15 Grammy awards, including winning the Grammy for Best Rock album five times \u2014 more than anyone else.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Teacher\u201d<\/a> is from their 11th album, <a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.lnk.to\/BHWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>But Here We Are<\/em>,<\/a> which came out in June 2023. I sat with Dave in the Foo Fighters practice space, and he told me the whole story of the song. Coming up, you\u2019ll hear the two voice memos he originally recorded on acoustic guitar, plus the two demos he made on his way to figuring the song out.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy or stream \u201cThe Teacher\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/song.link\/us\/i\/1682993597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Foo Fighters - The Teacher\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MF6trC529M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Song-Exploder-Foo-Fighters-Transcript.pdf\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Lerma<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foofighters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foo Fighters:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Grohl,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nate_Mendel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Mendel,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Shiflett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Shiflett,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Smear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Smear,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rami_Jaffee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rami Jaffee,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Freese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Freese<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregkurstin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Kurstin<\/a> \u2013 Producer<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taylor_Hawkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hawkins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.2.1) simplesharebuttons.com -->\t\t\t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\t\t var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\t\t js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";\n\t\t\t\t fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/foo-fighters\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Teacher\u201d For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}