Foo Fighters open four-night Kimmel run with ‘Window’ as Grohl recalls Taylor Hawkins
The band played a song from Your Favorite Toy on Monday. Dave Grohl told Jimmy Kimmel how it began with his daughter learning bass and recalled meeting the late drummer.
Foo Fighters opened a scheduled four-night run on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, October 26, with a performance of ‘Window,’ Rolling Stone reported. In an interview with Kimmel, frontman Dave Grohl explained how the song began and recalled his first meeting with the band’s late drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
The band was booked as the show’s musical guest from Monday through Thursday, according to Parade. ‘Window’ is a track from Your Favorite Toy, the band’s twelfth studio album, which Parade says was released on April 24. The Kimmel appearance brought the song and Grohl’s account of writing it to television viewers.
How Dave Grohl wrote ‘Window’
Grohl told Kimmel he wanted to write something simple enough for his daughter Harper, who was learning bass, to play with him. He said her favorite band was the Breeders and that he had that group in mind when he started the song, according to Rolling Stone. Its lyrics came from imagining a hotel window cleaner unexpectedly seeing guests in private moments, he said.
Rolling Stone described the televised performance as settling into a groove before the band fell silent midway through and returned for a brief guitar solo. It was the first of the four performances scheduled for the week; the remaining appearances were still ahead when the reports were published.
Grohl’s first meeting with Taylor Hawkins
Grohl also recalled meeting Hawkins at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas event in 1995, when Hawkins was drumming for Alanis Morissette. Grohl said he felt immediately that they would be friends for life. He told Kimmel that Hawkins joined Foo Fighters within about half a year of that first encounter, Rolling Stone reported.
The childhood story behind ‘Child Actor’
Parade reported another part of the interview: Grohl linked ‘Child Actor,’ also on Your Favorite Toy, to the pressure to perform a version of oneself for other people’s approval. Asked about the song, he recounted being urged to audition for a school production of The King and I when he was about 10. His mother, a teacher involved in the production, wanted him to try for the Prince.
Grohl said he screamed into a pillow for hours, hoping to lose his voice before the audition. He still had to perform the Beatles’ ‘Rocky Raccoon’ on guitar for the director. A friend got the role and Grohl became the understudy. He connected the memory to ‘Child Actor’ partly in jest, Parade reported.
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Sources and context
- Foo Fighters Play 'Window,' Dave Grohl Talks Taylor Hawkins on 'Kimmel'Rolling Stone
- Dave Grohl Explains How the Foo Fighters' 'Child Actor' Relates to a Childhood ScreamParade (republished on Yahoo Entertainment)
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