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Though he has mostly stayed out of politics throughout his career, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says that his time performing on the John Kerry campaign trail last year helped inspire the band's upcoming double album In Your Honor. In an interview with XFM, Grohl said, "I went out and supported John Kerry on his campaign trail, only really because George W. Bush was using one of our songs at his political rallies. It just goes to show how out of touch that man is if he’s using our songs at his rallies."He continued, “There’s no way of stopping the president playing your songs, so I went out and played it for John Kerry’s people instead, where I thought the message would kinda make more sense. So I spent quite a lot of time on the trail."
Grohl says the name In Your Honor came from the feeling he got from the crowds at the campaign stops. He told XFM, "When I’d play at these things I’d play acoustic, so it wasn’t like a Foo Fighters show, and the first 20 rows of the audience would all be people in wheelchairs, then farmers, then schoolteachers and blue collar factory workers, but it was really cool. And I got to see how all these people came together, really strong people, passionate and devoted to this honorable cause. The strength of community and human will, it was inspiring. The album, although it isn’t a political record, I was really, really inspired by how passionate people were last year to make a change.”
In Your Honor lands in stores on June 14. As we reported yesterday, the band just filmed a video for the first single "Best Of You."
