Foo Fighters' "My Hero": Inside the Song with Bradley Cook - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro
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If you don’t know who Bradley Cook is, he is an engineer who’s worked with countless amazing artists, including Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Counting Crows, Isaac Hayes, Ben Harper, Fishbone, and Everclear. He calls Barefoot Recording a home away from home, having worked there on and off since the studio’s renovation and rebranding in 2000.
Bradley assisted Eric Valentine on projects over the years, while also venturing off on major projects of his own at various studios-notably Grandmaster Recorders, which was unfortunately sold for redevelopment nearly two years ago.Bradley brings 30 years’ experience as an audio engineer to the table, and his résumé speaks for itself!
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Which song would YOU love to hear about? We'll see what we can do next!
We're talking this album or literaly any song ever cuz you're some wizard that can arrage anything?
Ok, if not Alice Cooper, maybe Supertramp's Long Way Home?
Can we get anything about Fleetwood Mac ? The way they came together. And recorded is interesting.
@@lahattec I agree that's an excellent track. The lp version anyway with the harmonica at the end. Heck, anything off Breakfast in America. The production at EMI was 1st rate on that record!!
David Bottrill: Tool - Lateralus. Your pick
This channel is criminally underrated, this should have millions of views!
You’re very kind
+Chris Broxton. Couldn't agree with you more!
You should ask Dave to be in on one of these so we can get his story. He is a great story teller.
thegreatcerebral yes, that would be amazing!
@@Producelikeapro How about a rap-rock cover of My Hero? That drum and bass are so powerful.
Would personally love to see a video for Siamese Dream or Melancholy by the Smashing Pumpkins. Either album to me is one of the best sounding rock records all time. Would love a breakdown of any of those songs from either of those two albums.
What a truly marvellous idea Derrick! You Rock!!
Derrick Lugo great idea 💡
Well this would be at the top of my list for sure.
yes anything 90'a alt rock, Toad the wet sprocket?
@@Producelikeapro Toad the wet sprocket?
This is so great,....these "Inside the Song" vids are like pron for recording nerds.
Thanks Billy! You Rock!
The best category
🤣
What's pron? Some kind of recording nerds' slang?
@@Module79L Swap the placement of the "R" and "O".
I literally cried hearing those guitars soloed. Beautiful tones. The arrangement is insane as well. I mean it’s not like I haven’t heard it before, but it still is an incredible emotional experience
As a FOO FIGHTERS fan I should say: THANKS WE LOVE YOU WARREN
Thanks ever so much my friend!!
The dude straight up said Dave told him that My Hero was about Kurt Cobain that’s pretty gnarly
@Dude Sweet I'm going to assume your comment is sarcastic. clearly you just don't get it
Hearing the isolated guitars is just unbelievable. They are so crisp and soulful.
That's my dream guitar tone. It's so balanced, so clear, and so powerful.
Bradley's eyes light up when Dave's vox come in . very cool . can't wait to see more!
One of my fav FF song. I never knew it was double tracked drums. Amazing.
I know! Amazing!!
Hearing him say it's about Kurt . I think we all figured that. Brilliant song. Fukking brilliant
TH-cam is good sometimes! Videos like this are such a dream come true for me, thanks so much for making them
Thanks ever so much!! Bradley is very generous with his time and talents and of course, wow! The song, the performances!! All incredible!
This song is a beast. drum and guitar tracks are dynamite, and the vocals are perfect. Tremendous song. This and Everlong the best Foo Fighters.
Wait wut... Dave always denied it was about Kurt. Interesting.
Anymore that can be shared about that?
It probably is about Kurt, but Dave just didn't want to talk about it cuz it's a sensitive topic. Understandable, really.
"Back and Forth" on Netflix about this period of the Foo's is really interesting...
Pat was about to quit, and Nate was asked to play live, but Dave was gonna be on the tracks, (was a no-go) soon enter Mr Hawkins.
One of my favorite songs by these guys, especially the guitars, as you pointed out ...Thanks again Warren!
Steve A thanks ever so much my friend! I’m so glad to be able to help! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Steve A I presume you meant William. Nate is the bass player ;)
Love it! I really enjoy listening to how the guitars were built and panned....Is it common to put a rhythm guitar up the middle?
Thanks ever so much Steve! Yes, Bradley is amazing! I learned so much!!
Can't wait for the Monkey Wrench installment of this series!! Maybe you could get Dave to come in and comment on the making of that one?
The guitars are HUGE!
YES!! HUGE!!
this is Masterclass level material Warren, great stuff, thank you man!
Thanks ever so much my friend!!
Coming back to the catalog of videos on this channel has been a pleasure. 2 years later.
I was more excited to see this than Game of Thrones
Hufsteter Medina aw shocks! I’ve never watched Game of Thrones! Haha
@@Producelikeapro Me either. LOL
I'm going to eat all the fookin' chickens you got" - The Hound
Wonderful video AGAIN!!! Bradley, dude, you are so awesome for doing these videos with Warren and allowing us to peek behind the curtain on your productions. My deepest appreciation to you both. I am learning so much, its awesome. Thank you guys! 👍
Thanks ever so much Matt!! You Rock my friend!!
Your content is insane! Thank you so much for these!! You turned a mundane Monday into an awesome Monday!
Hi Jason Bone was shucks thanks ever so much my friend!!
Now that I listen for the eBow at the end of the chorus, I can't unhear it!
I never noticed it - so strange!
I love how Bradley asked “Where is that at?” Lol.
One of the best drum sounds ever!
Thanks for posting this behind-the-scene look at a classic. How much talent is needed to sculpt the sound. Cheers!
Thanks ever so much!
Georg Albert Ruthenberg, aka Pat Smear. Our quiet " hero". Who would have thought ....
Wow That Drum sound is Great! Keep the videos coming Warren Send my good vibes to Bradley x :)
Thanks ever so much my friend!
Not sure what kinda pitch shifting pedals were around in the 90s, but I think that lead part definitely had a pitch shift pedal (Whammy?) with an octave setting on it. Never noticed that before and I've heard this song so many times!
This song was extremely important to me being into music, even including 'my hero' into user names for video games as a kid. Absolutely legendary content for me.
Yea, I just came from the "Dave Grohl “My Hero” on the Howard Stern Show in 1999" video where Dave says it's not about Kurt...
It is probably about ordinary people of which Kurt was ultimately one as well. He might not have wanted to speak about Kurt so just avoided the topic.
Bradley is da man! Love these inside scoops and stories!
Yes, he is Eric!!
Otto: Y'know those drums that are like...... DOUBLE DRUMS!?!?!?? Y'know?
Yes!! Insane Drums!!
@@Producelikeapro When you were saying double drums I was thinking, surely just adding in extra beats or extra cymbal hits right? No one can do a full double take pre-DAW days on drums without it sounding terrible. But no. Fucking Dave Grohl ladies and gentlemen haha, what a player. Ridiculous!
the melvins are a huge inspiration to both nirvana and foo fighters!!
I appreciate that Bradley doesn't talk over the isolated tracks. I've enjoyed the other guests in this series, but there's a tendency to interrupt before even 10 seconds of the track has been played.
Where is that mega high octave lead coming from in the verse? 12:45 never heard it before
Me either! I'm curious how they got that sound.
That’s just so cool:) Nothing Left to Lose was one of my first foo fighters albums I owned as a kid. Would love to hear Stacked Actors or Generator.
wonderful, wish these vids were more detailed and longer, maybe offer a deeper version, thanks warren and brad!
Happy to make them longer!!
Man this album was the soundtrack to my early adulthood in the late 90s, Johnny Parks is a dope tune. Cheers for these insights!
Hey warren i want to say you that you are awsome, i love you and your intro every time u hear it its hits harder!
This was truly amazing to watch, thank you so much Warren!
Thanks ever so much my friend!
It would be marvelous if you could arrange to have Roy Thomas Baker or Nigel Godrich in for a conversation. They've worked on a few amazing albums. - chaz
I agree! That would be amazing!!
Love these videos. Told a lot of my musician/engineer friends about them.
Rick beato goes into the song you go into the mix i love it
Let me show just how old I am.....tho not a specific song suggesting, founding member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils (If you wanna get to heaven & Jackie Blue (written by Lee) "Larry Michael Lee" use to produce bands like Alabama ,Juice Newton , K.T. Oslin and others....He lives in Springfield Mo., Time to go find my walking cane...smile.....once again thank you for these videos, really enjoy them....Mike
Great insight of a brilliant track, Gil gave me a copy of it when it had just been finished & I listened to it over the weekend on returning to he's home on the Monday I told him I loved it "what's your favourite track" he asked...."My Hero" I replied.😉
Pure gold, thank you for this, I miss the 90's....
These are sooo good!
Thanks ever so much!
That bass is everything.
Totally fast forwarded thru the narration, just listened to the tracks, so good
Love those drums!!!
This insight is demonstrative and mind expanding.
Thanks ever so much!!
Oh snap! I never knew there was an organ doubling the guitars in the verses! So cool :)
I’ve always liked that song but those drum sounds so huge and the guitars sound so nice, it’s giving me a deeper appreciation for it , thanks Warren🤙
This guy is great! The absolute best advice ever on how to dial in the Phase! Thank you both!
Great insight, that's really cool that their are two drum tracks on it, mixed so well.
I think this is my favourite Album by the Foo fighters. Good memories. I'm late to find these videos but really enjoying them. Thanks for doing them.
Been on a dave grohl kick all day today and yesterday, then, BAM! This drops. Love it!
the double drums blew my fucking mind
I know it’s a small point in the video, but Dave Grohl has said multiple times that My Hero is not about Kurt Cobain, it’s genuinely about ordinary people, a great example of him saying this is on the Howard Stern show in ‘99
I noticed that too, but I don't see why Bradley Cook would lie, like if Grohl told him that you know? I believe Grohl just really didn't want to talk about Cobain with anyone, which is fair enough.
every track sounds so awesomely good, damn
Love those videos. Bradley and Gil are Gods. They ve done some of my favourite album ever.
So bloody Yummy. I was telling a student about tape. All these episodes are legendary Warren. Kids read your liner notes..Cheers.
Yes! Tape, amazing! Plus the whole album was recorded in a week and a half
OMG this was so great to listen in on! Those guitar parts and the double drums! I will look at parking garages very differently in the future :-) One question was what was Daves vocal recording chain on the record? February Stars is a track I’ve obsessed about for a very long time. The warmth in the sound is what vocals need to sound like. Any thoughts Warren?
You are on fire warren. This is an awesome series
Thanks ever so much Ryan!!
My fav FooFighters song. Great insight on recording this.
Not sure if Bradley was just mistaken or mislead but there are interviews with Dave Grohl in which he specifically says "My Hero" is NOT about Kurt Cobain... just wanted to make sure people knew that's not who Dave wrote the song about. He identified Kurt's brilliance and never thought of him as "ordinary" as the song lyrics would imply... great song tho and great video Warren.
exactly
The idea of the song has evolved over time, but it was initially inspired by Cobain. Also, he didn't say it definitely wasn't about Kurt, he said it was "more about ordinary heroes" ... that's basically verbatim of what he said on Howard Stern. He's even said "There's definitely an element of Kurt in that song."
From Radio X:
"Some people assume that Dave Grohl is referring to the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who sadly lost his life to suicide in 1994. Grohl has previously said that it was somewhat influenced by grunge icon, saying: "There's definitely an element of Kurt in that song.' However, by 1999, Grohl had distanced himself from that idea."
I personally think he just got tired of people asking him about it and wanted to expand its meaning. Or, it's possible he was thinking of more than one person. That certainly happens; but it's not true to say the song is NOT about Cobain.
@@leafbelly wtf is radio x and why would I care what they think. Dave has repeatedly and still to this day says the song is absolutely not about Kurt. Period.
15:57 I never noticed that sound except perhaps at the very ending of the song, the fade out.. But very cool video!!
Another awesome video thanks Warren!!
Thanks ever so much Justin!!
So awesome, this show is a great idea
Hi Johan Burger thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro I always knew in my heart it was the greatest job in the world besides being the composer but seeing this really is something special. Only thing that truly matters in the world is music
My bloody valentine pleasssseeee !!!!
Would be so cool seeing how they made some of those songs they did in a bit more depth
did not know the song was about Kurt.... (exploding head) not sure how I never put that together. Double drums in the whole song with a garage take, freaking genius
MikeyLPSessions the double drums are amazing aren’t they?!
Another gem ! Had no idea that while I was at MI grandmaster was around the corner!
Great video as usual Warren! Did anyone notice the crazy looking mask in the reflection of the door at around 8:55 to 8:58? Haha.
Haha that's Eric wearing his Blue Headphones!!
in an interview with howard stern he said it's not about kurt cobain. it's about ordinary people being heroes not celebs like kurt
Hey Warren, Ben Mize was the drummer on Recovering The Satellites from Counting Crows. Ben is one of my best buddies for over 25 years. I would be more than thrilled to hear Bradley break down a song from that album, maybe Angles Of The Silences? Thanks brother. I am a musician and I really dig these breakdown videos!!!!
Easily best FF album, great rundown!
OMFG yes! Fantastic song!!
Indeed Holy Smoke! haha Thanks for watching!
Strange. I thought Dave Grohl said multiple times that this song was not about Kurt Cobain.
That's just for the public. It's a very personal song to Dave.
fuck Dave, why would you deny it all the time?
Alexandre Martini Dave is not denying it. The producer is lying, but it’s okay. My Hero is a song about ordinary people.
BoxOfCurryos I don’t see any reason why Bradley would be lying. From what I can tell, Dave is tired of people asking him if all his songs are about Kurt so he just denies it at this point, and who can really blame him?
@@User-jk8wq I too wouldn't want to talk about my relationship with my friend who died
I could listen to 13:06 all day
Me too!!
That shotgun mic is actually the front module for a phaser rifle. :-)
This series is really advancing my ideas of how to build a song. As a singer/songwriter the dimensions I've been thinking in is very centered around just my guitar rhythm and the lyric melody and I've been limited to just thinking of adding drums and bass. Not wrong but I think my thinking has been limited.
Gawd I need to be in the studio more. Come on lotto!
I agree, helps to realise all the subtle things you can do to make a song so much better
Thanks ever so much Loren!! You Rock!!
agreed 100%@@foreignmornings!
Super nice to see that kind of content! Everlong was amazing, this one as well... For instance, I am always feeling that I use to much reverb on vocals, but it isn't necessarily bad thing while listening at Dave's vocals... pretty huge!
I studied the music business in college and had plenty of time studying with audio engineering students in the studio. When using multiple microphones to record drums they would get out measuring tapes to make sure the audio in each microphone was in phase with each other, as was required by the professor. Do the professionals who are recording every day go to the extents of using measuring tapes each time? Do they need to be that precise or do you think they were simply being taught a lesson of the phase relationship?
TannerJamesGaughf marvellous question! I measure mics all the time! Any accent mic and even my ambient mics are measured in phase!
Thank you! Do you know of any examples that aren't in phase so I can hear the difference?
Thank you so much for doing this amazing work.
So awesome. I love it. Thank you Bradley and Warren!
Knowing this is about Kurt, It's clear there's some homage to Nirvana in those chords the first bit are reminiscent of bloom. Wonderful stuff Warren!
Get Terry Date on here for something off of White Pony (Deftones)
Joey Virrueta fuck yeah
All these sons are a testimony to rawness and rock. These days i feel like engineers, mixers and songwriters get so caught up in trying to get everything to be perfect that it slams the recording flat
At first I used to think that "February Stars" was about Kurt, since he was born in February. 'My hero" might not have been about him only, thought. "Friend of a Friend" was the only song Dave admitted to be about Kurt and Krist.
in my top 3 albums ever
Hey! awesome episode. can you tell us maybe a bit more about that rad looking white Bass VI you've got over there? never seen one with this kind of paintjob before!
That belongs to Graham Coxon! We believe that It used to belong to Larry Graham and has Sly Stone written on it!
@@Producelikeapro Oh that’s SO COOL!
btw thanks for the quick response, appreciate it. your channel is amazing, keep on rocking!
tyvm
Warren, it would be awesome to have some Halestorm mixing making ofs!
Marvellous idea!
@@Producelikeapro thank you so so much! I always dreamt to know how did CLAlge capture that huge drum sound at "I Get Off" or "Love Bites"
You have to do monkey wrench now!! pleaseee
This was awesome, for fun...could you record a similar style song using these old techniques? Would be amazing to see the process live!
... I'll volunteer! Come over to London and record my band! Haha
Time Stamps
Drums - 2:37
Kick - 6:46
Bass - 7:28
Guitar - 12:18
Ebow - 15:57
Vox - 16:33
I love these insights. What a great video, Warren. Hey, how about doing something on Lucinda Williams if you can? Thanks for your hard work.
I said it on the first video: I’d LOVE to see a breakdown on an Iron Maiden album with Martin Birch or with Kevin Shirley! :)
Yes!! Amazing idea!! I love Martin Birch's Production!
Produce Like A Pro I’m keeping my fingers crossed!!
Proper epic this one.
Like the Tool/Lateralus shout. Could also enjoy the 80's classic shout too.
What about a Jeff Beck album. Blow by blow or Wired.
I say no more.
Did Mr. Cook work on any other Foo Fighters albums? I'm a huge Foo Fighters fan so I would love to see him break down other songs.
Also, thank you for doing this stuff, I truly appreciate it.
Sadly I don't believe he did@@frankiecampos8909! I wish he did! Such an amazing sounding album!
@@Producelikeapro that's a shame, I really love his work.
So how many limbs would it cost us to get those isolated tracks?
Quiet a few! haha
I'll cherish these videos forever thank you kind sirs! RIP Taylor Hawkins! 🎶