The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Landmarks Live in Concert host Chad Smith discuss the music their families listened to when they were growing up and how it impacted them. Captured this past July, Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special premieres nationwide Friday, November 10 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).
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[Instrumental music] DAVE GROHL: When I was a kid, 70s AM radio... CHAD SMITH: Ruled!
DAVE GROHL: Dude, I swear to God...still like, that's got such a big place in my heart.
10CC, and Andrew Gold, and Gerry Rafferty... My father was a classically trained flutist.
So he played in orchestras and stuff.
Yeah, he was brilliant.
So he was really into classical, so we would always have the classical station on the radio at home.
Then my mother was really into like, show tunes, and musicals and stuff.
So... CHAD SMITH: This explains a lot.
DAVE GROHL: TA-DA!
CHAD SMITH: Show tunes!
DAVE GROHL: Da...da..da...doo..doo (snapping) Then my sister was kind of like, a new wave girl.
She's three years older than me.
And so she was listening to Tears For Fears, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Bowie.
Um, but then she also loved Neil Young and Crosby Stills and Nash and stuff like that.
And so then I'm listening to like Slayer and the Bad Brains and the Dead Kennedys and things like that.
But I would dip into everybody's albums and listen to them.
CHAD SMITH: I did the same thing.
I dipped into my older sister's and she was like Carly Simon, Seals and Crofts, Three Dog Night, uh... Beatles.
She loved the Beatles.
You know, the softer side of things.
Chicago..and...which is all great stuff but i was like hmm.... you know, I was like... you know, I'll check it out.
And it seeps.
It all...when you're young, and you're a sponge and you love music...and I'd be like (nods head). I wouldn't tell her this.
I'd be like...it's okay.
It's pretty good, Pam.
Thanks.
DAVE GROHL: Who would of 'thunk' that that would give way to 'give it away, give it away now!'
CHAD SMITH: [Laughs] [Instrumental music]
