Still to this day Exhausted gives me chills. Probably the best song Dave's ever writen. Catchy, great melody, kickass guitar tone and a fragile voice... You can clearly tell what period of time Dave wrote the song in.
yes, that combination of the slowpaced vocal on top op that chord-progression, gives it that mysterious feel about it. Also love that part where it breaks down slowly and suddenly it's back to the riff and fades out..It's a song I often go back to. Same with MIA from the 3rd record
Indeed , I love how the guitar sounds sad and the lyrics reflect it while the bass and drums feel like a up beat almost pop sound with punk undertones in them . Moreover, Just the brilliant way it all just comes together makes me feel like moshing BIG time : )
I still have this song on a cassette tape from the very broadcast Dave is talking about. It was the Pearl Jam pirate radio special. I recorded A LOT of good shit from that broadcast. The live set by SOundgarden was AMAZING. First time I ever heard "Kyle Petty, Son of Richard." When he played the Dave Grohl demos I was HOOKED right away. That's when I learned that Dave wasn't just a drummer in Nirvana.
I recorded this too, from the Detroit area way back when. Unfortunately I wore that tape out, and now it's lost, in several moves. There was also a funny Matt Lukin answering machine message to Eddie, trying to find out what neighbors have been using his trash bin. Then a call to Mike Watt, etc.
@@guidedby9 That's right! I remember someone yelling in the background "WATT!WATT!" While Eddie V was trying to introducing a song or something lol and there was some weird home recording they played called 'Johnny Get Off of My jig' or gig? Not sure how they spelled it but it was a weird sound sculpture type thing with a little kid yelling JOHNNY!
I think this song is Dave’s breaking point from nirvana, it’s definitely going for the feel, and it was written in Nevermind days, but it’s different enough that it sera it apart, it’s weird that it sounds like a farewell, a goodbye to something or someone, cold and slow, almost like they knew what was going to happen back then, kinda sad and freaky
Hey Barrett, you could make 2020 seem a whole lot better if you email/call Dave and get him to finally release all these amazing demos you've got. 25th anniversary of the first album would be a great time to do it. Love all these videos, respect from the UK🤙🏻
man.. I gotta say the first album is my favourite FF album. I love bits and pieces of the rest of the discography, but nothing beats Dave being Dave all on his own.
Hopefully the tape wasn't shedding and if it was, that everything was transferred already :) Still hoping one day Dave will wanna release a bunch of this stuff as some kind of boxset. Still obsessing over how good Slackers Password was! Thanks Barrett.
Thankfully we already have this unofficially. Like Dave said in this video it was broadcasted on the radio. Here is the whole broadcast: th-cam.com/video/IN6EcPus-Fw/w-d-xo.html
Yeah we do thankfully :) Had it for years but it'd be nice to have the masters backed up for a potential re-release (with a new mix perhaps for whenever that happens).
IIRC, from some things I've been able to dig up, the "petrol can" was actually a old Fender Amp Can. I had one and the single-button "distortion" was a super grungy, fuzzy sound. Wish I knew what happened to mine...
At 2:50 in this he is talking about Eddie Vedder playing is on his radio show (except it is listed as "This Is A Cause"). For context this is what Dave is talking about - th-cam.com/video/i1xkrmk4-mQ/w-d-xo.html (Man, I love the internet)
This is one of my absolute favorite FF songs as I was 15 following along with Dave's career and I'm a sucker for an album end song... and this song dwarf's most other end songs. I love this.
I always wondered how they got the super gritty sound on this version. For what it's worth, I get really close with an ES-125TDC into a super fuzz clone into a JCM900, though. It's such a great, gnarly, gritty, grungy distortion. I'd love to hear more about the "petrol can" used on the final version. I heard that it's an MS-2 pointed into a literal petrol can.
I don’t remember where I read this but I think Dave said one time that to get that sound he was using a really banged up amp that was dying so he used that to get that really dirty sound
For the demo it was the "blowing up amp", as for the album....I'm fairly confident in saying he was referring to the Fender "Amp Can" they marked for only a couple years in the 90's. It had an on/off distortion button that was pre-set.....no control of the effect. It has a unique blend of distortion and fuzz. While Dave was probably playing a different guitar, here's the sound on an old MIM Strat....judge the sound for yourself. th-cam.com/video/MoRgYjmAmVA/w-d-xo.html
The version of Exhausted on the initial cassette demos that I've been listening to on TH-cam is one of the greatest sounds that could ever enter an ear. It just has more soul and dirt than the studio album version. Barrett, has that original beautiful mix you did ever been released, or can I only hear it on TH-cam?
It sounds like so many bands from late 80's and early 90's, like Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. Nirvana wasn't the only band with that sound and Dave and Kurt had pretty similar taste in music.
“Damion/Damon’s radio show” refers to the New Music Hour hosted by New Music Guru Damon Stewart on FM100 KISW, Seattle’s Best Rock. Stewart is the voice heard at the beginning of “Searching With My Good Eye Closed” on Badmotorfinger.
I always wondered what that sound was. When I first picked up a guitar, my buddy had a squier strat and this small fender solid state amp. Sounded like shit. When that first foo fighters record came out and exhausted came on I thought it was recorded through a similar amp😂😂😂.
Nah I think you can. I can’t remember where I read it but I think Dave once said that the amp he used for the demo was dying and had a hard time pushing out sound which makes that really dirty noise
@@jaggass yeah so obviously that amp was practically on life support. When I play exhausted I use this really shitty amp that’s pretty small and use too much overdrive and it’s sounds close. The excess overdrive makes it so the amp has a hard time handling the power so it’ll spaz out and sound like an amp that’s ready to die
The “petrol can” refers to a battery powered guitar amp I bought in London (it’s in a red gas can) that I’ve used on most of the records I’ve recorded and used a lot on Dave’s early stuff.
@@laundryroomstudio awesome! Does that have any correlation as to why one of Dave's early songs floating around the internet back then was called Petrol CB. The chorus of that song repeats the lines "There's That Song Again"
@@laundryroomstudio cool man. I always thought it was Dave singing there. The first year or so the only version I found online it always cut off at the point where you started singing then. And I never got to here how that song ended until about two years later when I found the full version. You gotta turn it up to hear the last cool drum roll while it's fading out. I love that song. We didn't have youtube back then. It wasn't as easy to find cool stuff.
Seeing when these songs were recorded makes me wonder if Dave knew Nirvana was coming to some sort of perhaps untimely end. He had that whole first album in the can before Kurt died. Hmmmm... Hedging his bets? Plan B?
I mean, he always wanted to make mysic...it just so happened that he became the drummer in Nirvana. I believe he has mentioned before that Kurt wasn't always happy with his sound and that was probably all the more reason to be thinking what to do next...not that someone will die, but the band might end for him soon anyway...
Regardless of whether you do or do not believe Kurt's passing wasn't of his accord, Nirvana was never going to last. Kurt was tired of the spotlight, and as evidenced by his successful career, Dave could never stay relegated to simply banging drums the rest of his music life. He had been in bands prior and there's no doubt he just wrote music to write music. It was just happenstance that his position as part of the biggest rock group of the 90s enabled wide release and exposure of his excellent solo work.
These tapes should have been baked and tranferred before playing. I don't know why they would have continued playing a tape that was obviously shedding this bad.
Still to this day Exhausted gives me chills. Probably the best song Dave's ever writen. Catchy, great melody, kickass guitar tone and a fragile voice... You can clearly tell what period of time Dave wrote the song in.
"Oh george" is a good one too
From what I recall, he wrote it back in 92. He showed it to Kurt and he loved it.
yes, that combination of the slowpaced vocal on top op that chord-progression, gives it that mysterious feel about it. Also love that part where it breaks down slowly and suddenly it's back to the riff and fades out..It's a song I often go back to. Same with MIA from the 3rd record
@@KSandy-iy6fg apparently Dave’s least favourite FF song. I agree with you though, love “Oh George.”
I miss when he sings like this
Exhausted is the most Nirvana Foo Fighters song ever. Closest as it gets.
When I listen to it I swear I can hear this being sung by Cobain, being a fantastic Nirvana song
So true
Well it was made when Dave was still on Nirvana so it seems like a Nirvana song
makes sense coz kurt loved this song and alone + easy target
The Nirvana song that never was.
Exhausted is THE definitive FFs track.
absolutely
totally
STILL my favorite song by Dave.
How ?
Facts. That chord progression.
Exhausted is the live long best song of FF ever, for me.
It's my favourite Foo's song. This version is amazing to me.
Dear God, please! Release this box set of Dave's sessions with Barrett!!!!
Hell yeah. I'm not the biggest FF fan but I love Late!Pocketwatch and his demos from early 90's era. That would be amazing as a box set.
My favorite song... For real...
Mine too
Laundry Room Studio why don’t you convince Dave to write more music like this?
Indeed , I love how the guitar sounds sad and the lyrics reflect it while the bass and drums feel like a up beat almost pop sound with punk undertones in them . Moreover, Just the brilliant way it all just comes together makes me feel like moshing BIG time : )
2 years later... Still my favourite song... For real...
I still have this song on a cassette tape from the very broadcast Dave is talking about. It was the Pearl Jam pirate radio special. I recorded A LOT of good shit from that broadcast. The live set by SOundgarden was AMAZING. First time I ever heard "Kyle Petty, Son of Richard." When he played the Dave Grohl demos I was HOOKED right away. That's when I learned that Dave wasn't just a drummer in Nirvana.
I recorded this too, from the Detroit area way back when. Unfortunately I wore that tape out, and now it's lost, in several moves. There was also a funny Matt Lukin answering machine message to Eddie, trying to find out what neighbors have been using his trash bin. Then a call to Mike Watt, etc.
@@guidedby9 That's right! I remember someone yelling in the background "WATT!WATT!" While Eddie V was trying to introducing a song or something lol and there was some weird home recording they played called 'Johnny Get Off of My jig' or gig? Not sure how they spelled it but it was a weird sound sculpture type thing with a little kid yelling JOHNNY!
I think this song is Dave’s breaking point from nirvana, it’s definitely going for the feel, and it was written in Nevermind days, but it’s different enough that it sera it apart, it’s weird that it sounds like a farewell, a goodbye to something or someone, cold and slow, almost like they knew what was going to happen back then, kinda sad and freaky
Hey Barrett, you could make 2020 seem a whole lot better if you email/call Dave and get him to finally release all these amazing demos you've got. 25th anniversary of the first album would be a great time to do it.
Love all these videos, respect from the UK🤙🏻
Please barret!! Upload the complete version of *"Watered it down"* and upload the new *"Riffy Thing"* pleeaaasee!!!
I don’t think it’s his choice to make
man.. I gotta say the first album is my favourite FF album. I love bits and pieces of the rest of the discography, but nothing beats Dave being Dave all on his own.
Definitely one of my favorite songs dave has ever written, cudos.
Dave’s vocals on here are so beautiful. Beautifully sad.🥺
Hopefully the tape wasn't shedding and if it was, that everything was transferred already :) Still hoping one day Dave will wanna release a bunch of this stuff as some kind of boxset. Still obsessing over how good Slackers Password was! Thanks Barrett.
Thankfully we already have this unofficially. Like Dave said in this video it was broadcasted on the radio. Here is the whole broadcast:
th-cam.com/video/IN6EcPus-Fw/w-d-xo.html
Yeah we do thankfully :) Had it for years but it'd be nice to have the masters backed up for a potential re-release (with a new mix perhaps for whenever that happens).
@@90sArchivethat video isn’t available anymore…
Fortunately, lots of uploads on YT. You just have to look it up as the Exhausted Demo. People usually also label it as 92' or 93'.
All these out-takes need to go up! and we need to see the Petrol Can!!
IIRC, from some things I've been able to dig up, the "petrol can" was actually a old Fender Amp Can. I had one and the single-button "distortion" was a super grungy, fuzzy sound. Wish I knew what happened to mine...
Love how dave drums and relives the moment.... 👌
Awesome version of an awesome song
I love FF, they're my favorite band ever. The recent albuns are good, but the old ones are so fuc*ing special. I miss grunge so much.
At 2:50 in this he is talking about Eddie Vedder playing is on his radio show (except it is listed as "This Is A Cause"). For context this is what Dave is talking about - th-cam.com/video/i1xkrmk4-mQ/w-d-xo.html (Man, I love the internet)
No words to explain how much I love this song and everything that comes around it... Thanks for that.
This is one of my absolute favorite FF songs as I was 15 following along with Dave's career and I'm a sucker for an album end song... and this song dwarf's most other end songs. I love this.
These need to be released!!! 😂
Yesss it keeps getting better
1992 was the first demo for exhausted I believe
My favorite song of all time. So fun to play on guitar.
I always wondered how they got the super gritty sound on this version. For what it's worth, I get really close with an ES-125TDC into a super fuzz clone into a JCM900, though. It's such a great, gnarly, gritty, grungy distortion.
I'd love to hear more about the "petrol can" used on the final version. I heard that it's an MS-2 pointed into a literal petrol can.
I don’t remember where I read this but I think Dave said one time that to get that sound he was using a really banged up amp that was dying so he used that to get that really dirty sound
For the demo it was the "blowing up amp", as for the album....I'm fairly confident in saying he was referring to the Fender "Amp Can" they marked for only a couple years in the 90's. It had an on/off distortion button that was pre-set.....no control of the effect. It has a unique blend of distortion and fuzz. While Dave was probably playing a different guitar, here's the sound on an old MIM Strat....judge the sound for yourself.
th-cam.com/video/MoRgYjmAmVA/w-d-xo.html
one of my favorite song (from FF)
still my favorite ff song got this album when it came out when i was 12, this song has the best distortion, still wonder what his pedal set up was
JCM 800 and Proco Rat Turbo, as well as the Petrol Can.
Their best song
The version of Exhausted on the initial cassette demos that I've been listening to on TH-cam is one of the greatest sounds that could ever enter an ear. It just has more soul and dirt than the studio album version. Barrett, has that original beautiful mix you did ever been released, or can I only hear it on TH-cam?
it has never officially been released. some day..
Amazing song, like Good Grief
Thank you for uploading this. Love this song on so many levels..
It sounds like so many bands from late 80's and early 90's, like Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. Nirvana wasn't the only band with that sound and Dave and Kurt had pretty similar taste in music.
back everything up before these tapes rot or something
It's probably all been transferred now.
@@jaggass yea this demo is on youtube
Release slackers password!!
Seconded!
“Damion/Damon’s radio show” refers to the New Music Hour hosted by New Music Guru Damon Stewart on FM100 KISW, Seattle’s Best Rock. Stewart is the voice heard at the beginning of “Searching With My Good Eye Closed” on Badmotorfinger.
Probably the best FF song ever.
last grunge rock.
Que bellicimo!!!
Wow esto es una reliquia! Los comienzos de grohl después de Nirvana
I always wondered what that sound was. When I first picked up a guitar, my buddy had a squier strat and this small fender solid state amp. Sounded like shit. When that first foo fighters record came out and exhausted came on I thought it was recorded through a similar amp😂😂😂.
Get a shitty small amp and some override pedals and it’s pretty damn close it’s actually kinda easy to sound like it but not exactly like
I don't think anybody will get an amp sound like that again.
Nah I think you can. I can’t remember where I read it but I think Dave once said that the amp he used for the demo was dying and had a hard time pushing out sound which makes that really dirty noise
@@mickroyster6442 The amp blew up sometime later.
@@jaggass yeah so obviously that amp was practically on life support. When I play exhausted I use this really shitty amp that’s pretty small and use too much overdrive and it’s sounds close. The excess overdrive makes it so the amp has a hard time handling the power so it’ll spaz out and sound like an amp that’s ready to die
Should of called it "Grunge is dead"
what does "petrol can" refer to if i may ask?
The “petrol can” refers to a battery powered guitar amp I bought in London (it’s in a red gas can) that I’ve used on most of the records I’ve recorded and used a lot on Dave’s early stuff.
@@laundryroomstudio awesome! Does that have any correlation as to why one of Dave's early songs floating around the internet back then was called Petrol CB. The chorus of that song repeats the lines "There's That Song Again"
@@mattwhite3414 yes it does and fun fact that’s me singing the “it’s been thrown away again” part
@@laundryroomstudio cool man. I always thought it was Dave singing there. The first year or so the only version I found online it always cut off at the point where you started singing then. And I never got to here how that song ended until about two years later when I found the full version. You gotta turn it up to hear the last cool drum roll while it's fading out. I love that song. We didn't have youtube back then. It wasn't as easy to find cool stuff.
Riffy thing
💓💕💓💓💓💓💕😈
tha&nks
Seeing when these songs were recorded makes me wonder if Dave knew Nirvana was coming to some sort of perhaps untimely end. He had that whole first album in the can before Kurt died. Hmmmm... Hedging his bets? Plan B?
I mean, he always wanted to make mysic...it just so happened that he became the drummer in Nirvana. I believe he has mentioned before that Kurt wasn't always happy with his sound and that was probably all the more reason to be thinking what to do next...not that someone will die, but the band might end for him soon anyway...
Regardless of whether you do or do not believe Kurt's passing wasn't of his accord, Nirvana was never going to last. Kurt was tired of the spotlight, and as evidenced by his successful career, Dave could never stay relegated to simply banging drums the rest of his music life. He had been in bands prior and there's no doubt he just wrote music to write music. It was just happenstance that his position as part of the biggest rock group of the 90s enabled wide release and exposure of his excellent solo work.
I’m pretty sure these demos were recorded in 1992 so they were coming up with things to do after nevermind came out
I think Dave might have had some time to kill while his bandmate’s ‘hobbies’ were taking up more and more of his schedule.
Why wouldn't he when his band leader was a heroin addict. I'd have a Plan B for sure.
These tapes should have been baked and tranferred before playing. I don't know why they would have continued playing a tape that was obviously shedding this bad.
They had been baked and transferred already. Dave wanted to play the tapes so I baked them again prior to this filming and they were NOT shedding.
The tape wasn’t shedding, it’s just the guitar tone that’s really sludgy. I love it but I reckon it’s not for everyone.