The Foo Fighters may be on a hiatus while each member does their thing with other projects, but they're planning to help you celebrate the group's 15th anniversary with the Nov. 3 release of Foo Fighters Greatest Hits on Roswell/RCA.
To spice things up a bit, the Foos recorded two new songs for the package: "Word Forward" and "Wheels," the latter of which was debuted at a July 4 barbecue honoring military heroes at the White House.
The tracks were recorded with producer Butch Vig at the Foos' own 606 studio, and will be included with songs such as "The Pretender," "All My Life" and "Learn To Fly," "Best Of You," "Times Like These," "My Hero, "Everlong" and many more.
The Greatest Hits release arrives at a time when founder and frontman Dave Grohl is getting his Zeppelin kicks firsthand in a new band with John Paul Jones and Josh Home of Queens of the Stone Age called Them Crooked Vultures, who are finally restoring a heavy dose of badass to the term 'supergroup'. Meanwhile, bassist Nate Mendel is touring with the once-again-reunited Sunny Day Real Estate, a classic nineties band that paved the way for modern emo, sadly enough.
Mendel tells Billboard.com that the Foos' hiatus is "kind of open-ended. We were pretty much planning to take this year off and start writing. This fall or winter we'll probably start writing new Foo Fighters stuff." As for the Sunny Day Real Estate tour, which kicks off Sept. 17 in Vancouver, "It's fun to do something different. You need some variety," he says. "I've always loved those two Sunny Day records that I played on...and I like the other musicians in the band, so I wanted to just get together and re-live the whole experience."
While their maniacally enthusiastic fans would do anything for new material, the band hasn't even begun talking about putting those gears in motion. "Any old wounds from the past, no one wants to bring them up," Mendel explains. "We just want to focus on positive things, and you start writing new songs and that opens up a whole new can of worms. And those of us that are still playing in bands are pretty busy, too. We get along. We still have a connection that would allow us to make music. So if the will and time is there, it's a possibility at least."
