Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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"Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" is the sixth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was published on 25 September 2007. "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace " was produced as it did The Colour and the Shape by Gil Norton.
The album debuted with 135,685 copies sold in its first week at No. 1 in the UK album charts. In Australia and New Zealand, it reached platinum status in the first week of sales. In the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts, the band managed with their album at # 3 with 168,668 copies sold.
Every Foo Fighters album is traditionally longer represented at the top of the charts as the foregoing. Also, " Echoes, Silence Patience & Grace" did not break from that tradition. ( There Is Nothing Left to Lose - 1 week, One By One - 10 weeks, In Your Honor - 13 weeks Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - 15 weeks ).
The album was named the Best rock album in 2007 with a Grammy.
- 3.1 Foo Fighters
- 3.2 External musicians
- 3.3 Production
Background information
In an interview with XFM on 26 April 2007 Dave Grohl said:
" We've been in the studio for the past month and a half, and we've got about another month to go. We've been recording with our friend Gil Norton. He worked on our second record ( The Colour and the Shape), he's a good guy and he makes amazing albums. So we're making a really big powerful record, Which I'm very excited about ... I can not wait to jump on stage and do this stuff, it's gonna be great. "
About:
" We were the last one and a half months in the studio and we will still need about a month. We recorded with our friend Gil Norton. He has worked with on our second album ( The Colour and the Shape), he is a nice guy and makes incredible albums. So we make a really powerful album, which I am very excited ... I can not wait to jump around on stage and play the stuff, which is great. "
On the song " Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners " Kaki King worked with. It is the first purely instrumental piece that the Foo Fighters have released. Grohl wrote it for the victims of the Beaconsfield mine disaster. Two of the buried miners had requested an iPod with Foo Fighters songs while they waited to be rescued.
The first single " The Pretender " was released on 17 September 2007 on CD and was heard previously from August 2007 on the radio to heat up to the album sales. The second single, " Long Road To Ruin " was released on December 3. " Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running )" and " Let It Die " have both been published only digitally. The album title "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace" comes as a verse in the song " Home " before.
Included tracks
Bonus Tracks
B-sides
The following tracks appeared on the " The Pretender " Single:
The following appeared on the track " Long Road to Ruin " single:
Persons involved
Foo Fighters
- Dave Grohl - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano in "Summer's End", " Statues " and " Home "
- Taylor Hawkins - drums, piano in "Summer's End", backing vocals
- Nate Mendel - bass
- Chris Shiflett - lead guitar, backing vocals
External musicians
- Drew Hester - percussion instrument in " Come Alive ", " Let It Die ", " Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running ) ", " Long Road to Ruin " and "Summer's End" "
- Rami Jaffee - keyboards in " Let It Die ", " Erase / Replace ", " Long Road to Ruin ", " Come Alive " and " But, Honestly ", " accordion in " Statues "
- Brantley Kearns Jr. - violin in " Statues "
- Kaki King - guitar in " Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners "
- Pat Smear - guitar in " Let It Die "
- Strings of "The Section Quartet"
Production
- Gil Norton - producer
- Adrian Bushby - Technicians
- Jake Davies - Pro Tools engineers
- John Lousteau - Technical Assistant
- Rich Costley - Mixer
- Claudius Mittendorfer - Mixer Assistant
- Brian Gardner - Mastering