Foo Fighters, "Window." Video: Jimmy Kimmel Live, via Rolling Stone
Dave Grohl's sit-down with Jimmy Kimmel. Video: Jimmy Kimmel Live, via Rolling Stone
Foo Fighters play "Window" on Kimmel, and Dave Grohl remembers meeting Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters played "Window," from Your Favorite Toy, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday. The song rides an easy, almost Southern-rock groove, drops to silence in the middle as Grohl sings "I saw your face, there in the window/You were a window cleaner," and closes on an understated guitar solo. It was the first of four performances on the show this week, with a different song each night.
Grohl told Kimmel he wrote it when his daughter Harper, 17, was learning bass: "I'm gonna write a song … that she can come upstairs and put a bass line on, like really simple, and then we can jam together." Her favorite band is the Breeders, so he went for something in that vein. The lyric came from hotel rooms, and the thought that window cleaners see people's most private moments.
He also recalled meeting Taylor Hawkins backstage at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas in 1995, when Hawkins was drumming for Alanis Morissette. On a flight after a show in France, Morissette asked Hawkins what he would do when Dave asked him to join. "No, baby, I love you," he told her. Within half a year he was the Foo Fighters' drummer.
Here comes this blond, surfer dude, like, 'Yo, dude, I love your band.' … I knew, right then, I was like, 'Oh, we're gonna be best friends for the rest of our lives.'Dave Grohl
- The song
- "Window," from Your Favorite Toy
- This week
- Four nights on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a different song each night
- First meeting
- KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, 1995
