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7 Corners - The Recording History Of Dave Grohl And Foo Fighters
Make no mistake, ‘7 Corners’ is not just another Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters biography. It’s not a book exploring their personal stories, how many records they’ve sold or the general timeline of the band that you’ve heard many times before. This is a unique book focused solely on the music.
Documenting over 75 different recording sessions spanning 30+ years this book aims to place you in the recording studios and experience what it is like for Dave Grohl, the rest of Foo Fighters and various other musicians to record some of their biggest hits. The recording of all nine studio Foo Fighters albums, demo recording, side projects, Dave’s early pre-Nirvana bands, it is all here.
Hundreds of hours of research has been conducted in putting together the book including talking to many of the people who were at the sessions. Band members, producers, studio owners, engineers, photographers, they’ve all been approached and have helped contribute first hand information to what is undoubtedly the ultimate collection of information on the recording history of an extraordinary musician and his world beating band.
Presented in a chronological order, you’ll be able to live through each session and pass through time with Dave and the band as they record around the world – it’s all documented In this exhaustive collection.
Documenting over 75 different recording sessions spanning 30+ years this book aims to place you in the recording studios and experience what it is like for Dave Grohl, the rest of Foo Fighters and various other musicians to record some of their biggest hits. The recording of all nine studio Foo Fighters albums, demo recording, side projects, Dave’s early pre-Nirvana bands, it is all here.
Hundreds of hours of research has been conducted in putting together the book including talking to many of the people who were at the sessions. Band members, producers, studio owners, engineers, photographers, they’ve all been approached and have helped contribute first hand information to what is undoubtedly the ultimate collection of information on the recording history of an extraordinary musician and his world beating band.
Presented in a chronological order, you’ll be able to live through each session and pass through time with Dave and the band as they record around the world – it’s all documented In this exhaustive collection.
377 pages, Paperback
First published August 5, 2013
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April 21, 2019
7 Corners is a beautifully researched book that comes complete with not just dates and equipment lists but also anecdotes from the studio engineers and producers that have worked directly with Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters. The book is full of titbits that not even the most seasoned fan will know and the sheer amount of work that's gone into this book is evident from the very first page. From the early days of Mission Impossible and Dain Bramage right through to Saint Cecilia and Concrete and Gold, this book covers all of the major albums and every recording session in between.
7 Corners isn't another unauthorised Dave Grohl biography, nor is it just for the gearheads and geeks. It's thoughtfully and lovingly written with the whole fan base in mind and never goes out of its way to project the information over the casual reader's head. There's a whole wealth of information within the pages that with fascinate even the most casual fan.
This is a book for every Dave Grohl fan, whether they've just discovered him or have been following him since the very beginning.
7 Corners isn't another unauthorised Dave Grohl biography, nor is it just for the gearheads and geeks. It's thoughtfully and lovingly written with the whole fan base in mind and never goes out of its way to project the information over the casual reader's head. There's a whole wealth of information within the pages that with fascinate even the most casual fan.
This is a book for every Dave Grohl fan, whether they've just discovered him or have been following him since the very beginning.
September 10, 2017
If you're a fan of Dave Grohl, or just music in general, this is a book that you need to check out. Filled with the details of over 50 recording sessions, the book includes details of equipment used, recording dates, and snippets of interviews of personnel included in the session. While the author had admitted that the book needs an update (it doesn't include the more recent sessions), 7 Corners is still a wonderful insight into the mind, and working methods, of a highly successful musician. Definitely worth a read!
September 7, 2020
'Am I crazy? Or is this a record?'
'Both.'
Look, this book just 100% does what it says on the tin. If you aren't in the top 1% of the Foo Fighters' listeners on Spotify, or the owner of every single Foos album on vinyl, or a curator of your own personal digital collection of every single bootleg and photo every to emerge related to the band... this book will do absolutely nothing for you.
If any of those categories is you, this book will be absolutely fascinating and an excellent balance of technical detail and band anecdotes. Okay... I can't actually personally really speak to how complete the technical detail was (I imagine for a real music tech lover this book does not dive in enough).
But in the band anecdotes realm, there is loads of stuff here that will both make you affectionately roll your eyes (Grohl not being totally self aware about the fact that he is a control freak and Taylor Hawkins being aware to the point that he compares Grohl to the head of a mafia family), and endear you to the band even more (personal favourites are the fact that Pat Smear, Nate Mendel, and William Goldsmith receive royalties from the first album despite not actually playing anything on it, and that Wasting Light was manually mixed with Butch Vig, Grohl, sound engineer James Brown, and mixing engineer Alan Moulder all sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at a control board in Grohl's home office).
Kilmore's work is quite clearly independently produced (there are certainly some editing and grammar errors), but this is overall a tidy, obsessively-written exploration of which most music fans could only dream having of their favourite musicians and their recording processes. Easy to read, too.
'Both.'
Look, this book just 100% does what it says on the tin. If you aren't in the top 1% of the Foo Fighters' listeners on Spotify, or the owner of every single Foos album on vinyl, or a curator of your own personal digital collection of every single bootleg and photo every to emerge related to the band... this book will do absolutely nothing for you.
If any of those categories is you, this book will be absolutely fascinating and an excellent balance of technical detail and band anecdotes. Okay... I can't actually personally really speak to how complete the technical detail was (I imagine for a real music tech lover this book does not dive in enough).
But in the band anecdotes realm, there is loads of stuff here that will both make you affectionately roll your eyes (Grohl not being totally self aware about the fact that he is a control freak and Taylor Hawkins being aware to the point that he compares Grohl to the head of a mafia family), and endear you to the band even more (personal favourites are the fact that Pat Smear, Nate Mendel, and William Goldsmith receive royalties from the first album despite not actually playing anything on it, and that Wasting Light was manually mixed with Butch Vig, Grohl, sound engineer James Brown, and mixing engineer Alan Moulder all sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at a control board in Grohl's home office).
Kilmore's work is quite clearly independently produced (there are certainly some editing and grammar errors), but this is overall a tidy, obsessively-written exploration of which most music fans could only dream having of their favourite musicians and their recording processes. Easy to read, too.
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