Modern-rock mainstays Foo Fighters, clearly a band already known for their entertaining video delivery is back again, with a mini-film for their track, "Walk," the second track from American rock band's phenomenal new album, "Wasting Light," which has been tearing up the charts and causing critics to rally behind the band's raw, retro songs that are sure to be bumping in your car stereo this summer. Foo Fighters have fun with their "Walk" video, especially in the parts when the band's frontman Dave Grohl is stuck in traffic, and gets tazed to within an inch of his life. He have a really really bad day. Seriously...a terrible day."Walk" is more of the goofy antics we've come to expect from the guys. It's very catchy song. According to Grohl, he came up with the verse about "having a trial" after the time he was helping his first daughter Violet Maye on "learning to walk," and eventually she was able to walk on her own. The song was supposed to be on the previous studio album "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace," but Grohl decided to put the final version as the last track of "Wasting Light" because it "sort of makes sense to the album's theme of time and second chances," and to "end the record on a positive note."
The video was directed by Sam Jones, and is, rather oddly enough, a heavily influenced by the 1993's intense crime drama "Falling Down." Sitting in his car stuck in halted peak hour traffic, tipped over the edge by the phrase "punk is dead" scrawled on a freeway underpass, Grohl loses his cool and abandons his vehicle and goes on a mad tear across the city. Although he may be dressed a mild-mannered office worker, Grohl does some damage to his bandmates, beating guitarist Pat Smear with a Slim Jim sword and turning a golf cart into a fatal weapon. Grohl flees from the cops before reaching the Foo Fighters performance space, even throwing in a few badass Pete Townshend-style guitar windmills before the cops come, as Grohl is tasered and arrested.
It is the first Foo Fighters music video to feature Grohl with the rare Gibson Trini Lopez Standard in Pelham Blue, the guitar his signature Gibson DG-335 in Pelham Blue is based on. The video contains a hidden phone number that prompts callers to tell the band their favorite part of the video. The "Walk" clip finds the Foo Fighters back to their costumes, characters and comedic hi-jinks, after a more straight-forward "Rope" video. I can't really think of a better "modern rock" band than Foo Fighters. The band's latest album, "Wasting Light" rules pretty hard, a fantastic collection of beefy, rockin' tunes.
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