In an interview with Gustavo Turner at LA Weekly, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl explained the band's decision to issue pieces of the original master tape with their new album, Wasting Light. An excerpt from the article is available below:

Imagine our surprise when we received the advance CD of the Foo Fighters' new album, Wasting Light, and we noticed the following sticker copy:

Upon opening the cardboard case we found out that, yes, there was about an inch of magnetic recording tape inside the booklet.

Wait--don't bands often fight protracted legal battles to recover their precious, hallowed "master tapes" from greedy record companies and managers? Aren't these precious objects what you need to remix and remaster later versions of the album every time a new audio format replaces the previous one?

We were confused, and thus we did what we always do when we're confused: we called Dave Grohl.

LA Weekly: So, am I holding a piece of the ACTUAL the master tape for Wasting Light?

Grohl: "Yeah, basically we recorded the record in my garage to analog tape, and probably wound up with 20-30 reels of tapes, masters reels with all the takes on them, reels with alternate takes. At the end of the session I thought it would be an extraordinary move to destroy all the masters and give the pieces of the tapes to the fans. Everyone was saying, 'Can you do that? Is that gonna work?' People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

I think it's much easier than using a computer- you just plug in the machine, and you put your microphone in input and get your levels and hit the red button and that's IT. You don't have to scroll through, don't have to install anything; it's really, really simple. Been about 15 years since anyone had recorded an album to analog tape."

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Wasting Light was released April 12 by Roswell/RCA and consists of the following tracks:

'Bridge Burning'

'Rope'

'Dear Rosemary'

'White Limo'

'Arlandria'

'These Days'

'Back & Forth'

'A Matter Of Time'

'Miss The Misery'

'I Should Have Known'

'Walk'

The video for 'White Limo' can be viewed below: