"Watered it Down" and "Slackers Password" Sonic Highways Outtakes

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  • @OtavioFesoares
    @OtavioFesoares 7 років тому +170

    Barrett, for the love of everything that is sacred, release Slacker's Password. PLEASE.

    • @laundryroomstudio
      @laundryroomstudio  7 років тому +119

      OtavioFesoares I would love to release a box set of all the stuff!! Not up to me though...

    • @OtavioFesoares
      @OtavioFesoares 7 років тому +20

      Well, ain't that a bitch, eh? Keep it up, though! I'm loving these uploads.

    • @joaoreis5050
      @joaoreis5050 7 років тому +18

      We should do a petition for them to release the song and if it doesn't work we should do a crowdfunding to support Barretts indemnity to the Foo's after he publishes it xD #MakeTheFansGreatAgain

    • @thunderthecovers
      @thunderthecovers 7 років тому +19

      Could you somehow 'leak' it - maybe leave your studio unlocked one evening? 😎

    • @Adefesio94
      @Adefesio94 4 роки тому +1

      @@thunderthecovers leak!

  • @patton303
    @patton303 2 роки тому +25

    But for real, Barrett was getting KILLER tones in those mixes. The drums and guitars sound huge and this is a just film microphone recording some studio speakers. Imagine what the actual mixed songs sound like?

  • @danger1980c
    @danger1980c 7 років тому +79

    Barrett acting coy like he hasn't listened to these songs every week for the last 20 years

    • @laundryroomstudio
      @laundryroomstudio  7 років тому +49

      danger1980 ha! Nope. I've haven't really..

    • @ZachIsARuhtard
      @ZachIsARuhtard 7 років тому +11

      You guys DID record some cool shit together, whether you want to be humble or not haha. Was Slackers Password on "the Marshall" you guys speak of in these videos, because Dave's guitar tracks sound so fucking awesome. If not the Marshall, what kind of amp was he playing through? If you remember.

  • @tasmaniamusic922
    @tasmaniamusic922 7 років тому +162

    Slackers Password is awesome! They should release that song!

    • @thunderthecovers
      @thunderthecovers 7 років тому

      I want all of them!

    • @elenid7530
      @elenid7530 6 років тому +2

      I know right??! I could see them coming out with a new album and that song being on there. I would totally love to see it live... :D

    • @ryanrafuls
      @ryanrafuls 6 років тому

      They honestly should

  • @ABCDyeahyeahyeah
    @ABCDyeahyeahyeah Рік тому +17

    I love the difference in reaction from DG in the two songs. The first one seems like he’s embarrassed by it, the second one his ears perk up and he seems intrigued, almost as if he might want to revisit it. Good stuff, I just stumbled upon this and being a huge Nirvana/early foo fan this is absolute gold for me. The new stuff doesn’t do it for me.

  • @EJ2K2K
    @EJ2K2K 7 років тому +69

    Slackers password is awesome holy shit! Dave, release that officially!!!

  • @michaeljohnson5426
    @michaeljohnson5426 7 років тому +40

    Dave: Please release all of the stuff you recorded between 89 and 94 and put it on a record!!!

    • @dyr234
      @dyr234 4 роки тому +3

      fuck yes! someone needs to personally email him.

    • @bluemcdaniel99
      @bluemcdaniel99 3 роки тому

      @@dyr234 ua-cam.com/video/jLEeR5qytfs/v-deo.html This is the best we have so far.

  • @guidofernandezbrundo2394
    @guidofernandezbrundo2394 7 років тому +63

    Slackers Password WOW!

  • @SDMFdeeger
    @SDMFdeeger Рік тому +7

    Slackers Password definitely kicks ass. Damn! That's possibly better than anything on the first Foos record! I don't know how I didn't see these outtakes until just now!

  • @destiny-theseries
    @destiny-theseries 7 років тому +17

    I love how Dave is so transparent. No other artist would do this.

  • @karlbigmore
    @karlbigmore 7 років тому +42

    That riff on slackers password 😮

  • @kerrie2k
    @kerrie2k 7 років тому +42

    Great tune, I actually find the Foo Fighters therapeutic, I suffer with depression and severe anxiety among other things and when I have one of my anxiety attacks which is near enough daily at the moment, I put the Foo Fighters on, either a live performance or one of their videos and it usually helps to relieve it. I really appreciate the Foo Fighters and I'm grateful that they share their music with us. I wish I could give them an hug and tell them that :) Anyway, I'll stop being soppy now. Thank you for sharing this video with us.

  • @bigmuffexpress
    @bigmuffexpress 7 років тому +21

    I love Watered It Down, wish you could release the version with vocals!

  • @jonathanknox
    @jonathanknox 7 років тому +22

    Cool hearing these early / pre-Foos tracks... thanks so much B / Laundry Room for sharing!!!

  • @anonymoussource5344
    @anonymoussource5344 Рік тому +6

    Yeah, let’s stay silent during Slackers Password and pretend like it wasn’t a potential hit or anything. No big deal.

  • @Nightowl333
    @Nightowl333 7 років тому +40

    Dear Lord SLACKERS PASSWORD! Damnit that is a powerful infectious rock hook! So good, can't believe my new favorite song is not even released to listen to. Someone needs to do something about this, talk to Grohl or some band should at least cover it.

    • @ChickenFriedBrad
      @ChickenFriedBrad 4 роки тому +3

      Hey, man! I know it's three years later, but I took your advice. My buddy and I just did a cover of it not too long ago. You can check it out on my channel (or my band's channel "Noware Official").

  • @fanana_bishh
    @fanana_bishh 7 років тому +9

    I could watch them go through tapes all day.

  • @aliensarerealancient
    @aliensarerealancient 7 років тому +20

    Oh far out slackers password needs to be a single. You should hit Dave up and tell him to release it.

  • @guspalas4641
    @guspalas4641 7 років тому +9

    Good lord! Slackers Password is one the best songs I've ever heard!

  • @revolveronvinyl
    @revolveronvinyl 7 років тому +8

    never in my life thought i'd get to hear NEW stuff from this era. WOW. and somehow i found it right when you uploaded it.

  • @somedaysometime
    @somedaysometime 5 років тому +24

    I don't wanna be that guy, but...Slackers Password's monster riff has a STRONG Nirvana influence.

  • @ke4nyv
    @ke4nyv Рік тому +2

    I need two things: A re-issue of the Pocketwatch Demos on CD and a CD of every demo from the first album era.

  • @mas_grohl3506
    @mas_grohl3506 4 роки тому +5

    It's 2020. It's pretty much a chaos. This is the time to continue and release slackers password!!! People needs something that could cheer em up this year!

  • @yeyoandrew1987
    @yeyoandrew1987 Рік тому +4

    All of these tracks are like Dave's Incesticide.

    • @quill_milk
      @quill_milk 8 місяців тому

      davecesticide we NEED IT‼️

  • @Nockspielt
    @Nockspielt 2 роки тому +12

    Slackers Password is one of the best tracks he ever recorded.....So much better then all the new shit from them, from the last 10 years....

  • @dyr234
    @dyr234 4 роки тому +4

    Dave just needs to release old demos for us foo fighters fans, everything on that first album and and early b sides are crunchy and heavy rockin'. Someone needs to personally email him for this idea and push it strongly.

  • @davidhattersley5045
    @davidhattersley5045 7 років тому +8

    he needs to release slackers password . what a fucking badass tune!

  • @AwesomeJessie10
    @AwesomeJessie10 7 років тому +45

    OH MAN PLEASE RELEASE SLACKERS PASSWORD

  • @anthonysince1969
    @anthonysince1969 4 роки тому +9

    This is my age talking but this is the Foo sound. The new stuff is just to polished.

  • @rf8362
    @rf8362 4 роки тому +2

    I agree with all of you saying to release Slacker's Password. They we're nodding their heads themselves like... This is actually nice now that I remember.

  • @harrywedel95
    @harrywedel95 7 років тому +35

    WATERWATERWATERWATER

  • @satanismyusername
    @satanismyusername Рік тому +1

    Should seriously consider releasing this material

  • @78zappaf
    @78zappaf Рік тому +2

    Near the end of Watered It Down, it sounded like Tom Green doing one of his own songs.

  • @ferabra8939
    @ferabra8939 6 років тому +15

    Wow the second song, slacker's password, is amazing. Sounds like a guy wanting to make it big. Now Dave has a passion and good songs but I guess he's not hungry anymore.

  • @miquel3657
    @miquel3657 7 років тому +28

    Look if you leak these tracks Dave might not talk to you anymore but you'll have our admiration forever instead.

  • @catatonicsuns
    @catatonicsuns 7 років тому +5

    Man, I love these

  • @h879xx
    @h879xx Рік тому +4

    When you don’t remember a song that’s better than everyone else’s released stuff. #slackerspassword

  • @Tiffolo
    @Tiffolo 7 років тому +3

    Slackers password is AMAZING!

  • @OctaveZangs
    @OctaveZangs 7 років тому +5

    0:33 When you realize the song is so much better than what you're doing now.

  • @pacomisterio
    @pacomisterio 7 років тому +5

    Barret, you and Dave must realease some of your demos.. if you search on youtube: "Slackers Password" you'll find a lot of people cutting your video and making wonderfull videos with that song, sound fucking awesome man!

  • @shanekelley7682
    @shanekelley7682 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome songs!

  • @Mashtar
    @Mashtar 4 роки тому

    Slackers Passwords is just amazing!

  • @beyondthegong
    @beyondthegong 5 років тому +5

    Slackers Password / Water It DOWN! 7”!!!

  • @DrSleep00
    @DrSleep00 6 років тому +2

    Quite liked the last song.

  • @bogieontwowheels1903
    @bogieontwowheels1903 6 років тому +1

    Damn Dave!! Record Slackers Password!!!

  • @SeRIoUsPlaYeRx
    @SeRIoUsPlaYeRx 6 років тому +3

    Hey Barrett, Im a big fan of your work! Just want to ask you, if you could tell me which guitar Dave used on these recordings and the pocketwatch cassett? And especially how he got that dark grungy sound?

  • @kurtispopp
    @kurtispopp 7 років тому +7

    I miss when the Foos sounded like Nirvana Jr.

  • @emmapeel1427
    @emmapeel1427 7 років тому +4

    Love slackers password

  • @frasersimpson442
    @frasersimpson442 7 років тому +6

    These recordings sound so awesome. I LOVED the sound of Oh The Guilt too.
    Barrett, can you remember - roughly - what the guitar tracking setup was? (Distortion box especially).

    • @laundryroomstudio
      @laundryroomstudio  7 років тому +7

      for '"Oh The Guilt"? Kurt always used the Boss DS-1 distortion and a Small Stone Phase. I can't remember if he brought in his amp or used my marshall JMC 800 rig.

    • @frasersimpson442
      @frasersimpson442 7 років тому +2

      Hey! Thanks for replying.
      I meant the guitar tracking in this stuff/ the trashier stuff on the first FF record. DS1 > 800 too?
      You still got your 800?

    • @laundryroomstudio
      @laundryroomstudio  7 років тому +12

      Dave used my JMC 800 a lot, still have it. We also used a battery powered amp called "the Can" (it was in a gas can) and on the "Exhausted" demo we used this really fucked up amp that I don't remember what kind it was but it was dying and eventually died. Distortions were MXR Distortion + and Marshall Guv'nor

    • @bruninhaarraes8263
      @bruninhaarraes8263 2 роки тому

      Dave used a Rat Turbo too, right?

  • @bigbowlowrong4694
    @bigbowlowrong4694 Рік тому +1

    💦WATER WATER WATER WATER WATER💦
    lmao

  • @steve5590
    @steve5590 6 років тому +5

    Slackers password is better than anything off concrete and gold.

  • @scottiemartin7558
    @scottiemartin7558 7 років тому +7

    4:05- aneurism by nirvana

  • @lutherandross3165
    @lutherandross3165 2 роки тому +2

    Slackers password = precursor to Local H

  • @camacaron06
    @camacaron06 4 роки тому +1

    I think it would be really cool if they released this and a lot of unreleased foo fighters stuff on a Boxset for 2021

  • @CherubRecords
    @CherubRecords 7 років тому

    Keep digging!

  • @elunicasaso
    @elunicasaso 7 років тому +4

    that move at 4.59

  • @liasophia3172
    @liasophia3172 7 років тому +1

    Thanks😊

  • @foozealand8015
    @foozealand8015 7 років тому +3

    Fan-fucking-tastic

  • @bluemcdaniel99
    @bluemcdaniel99 3 роки тому

    I wonder what video theyre watching cause it has young nate and will in it.

  • @pacomisterio
    @pacomisterio 2 роки тому +1

    "Watered it Down" (with audio D: )
    0:48 - 0:50 (First word)
    1:05 - 1:27 (Dave: Oh.. I remember that..)
    1:35 - 2:07 (Dave laughing ashamed "Interesting.. and weird....." 🤦🏻
    2:23 - 2:40 (Dave: You water it down! down! You water it down! Water water water water it dowwwwwn!!! "Dave laughing again totally ashamed saying: haha.. just making music... 🤦🏻😂"

  • @didybopintitys
    @didybopintitys 5 років тому +2

    Its kind of insane how much he sounds like presidents of the United States lmao

  • @natecorning
    @natecorning 2 роки тому

    I could totally hear CKY playing slackers password

  • @DavidScott-hi4fz
    @DavidScott-hi4fz 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Barrett, can you talk at all about Dave's guitar tone here on Slacker's Password? It's incredible. Is there a DS-1 in there? This stuff is gold. A smart-ass punkish attitude but so much ambition to be great. Man would be great to get a box set of this stuff.

  • @felipecunha3255
    @felipecunha3255 7 років тому +7

    hey Barrett, do you know the official Foo Fighters postboard? it's been there for a little over 15 years, it's maintained by the band but it's not listed anymore, there's only about 20 or so active users who are hardcore fans of the band, one of the administrators is Simon from foofighterslive.com, I'm writing this because I'd like to invite you to join, there's people there who know all about your sessions with Dave and would love so much to be able to have you there and maybe share an anecdote or two, maybe fill in some blanks on some of the information they have. you can find it at forum.foofighters.com , it's not listed anywhere so I think it's only still up for that core group of nerds who love this band so damn much. i hope you'll consider it, thanks for sharing these anyway!

    • @bigbowlowrong4694
      @bigbowlowrong4694 4 роки тому

      I was member #625 (and was there before it changed format some time in 2000). Sad to see it’s gone, but I definitely understand given the rise of Facebook and Reddit.

  • @OtavioFesoares
    @OtavioFesoares 7 років тому +3

    Watered it Down sounds SO much better with no vocals. Almost like Exhausted or Arlandria.

  • @SchoolofRockNRoll
    @SchoolofRockNRoll 4 роки тому

    Release the tapes, Grohl!

  • @ganerus5293
    @ganerus5293 5 років тому

    Water it down is actually good

  • @jordanfats1997
    @jordanfats1997 6 років тому +1

    imagine if Taylor was there to hear WATER WATER WATER

  • @Filmandmusicdegenerate
    @Filmandmusicdegenerate 2 роки тому +1

    I'd do absolutely anything to have the multitrack of Slackers password! oh my lord I'd love to mix my own version when I do my live mix Practice every Friday I'd love to listen to that on the PA!

  • @scottiewallace3149
    @scottiewallace3149 5 років тому +1

    It's a shame about the crackling hiss running through your video.. can you fix that?

    • @StarcrawlerArchive
      @StarcrawlerArchive 4 роки тому

      The crackling hiss is him seeking through the tapes, you can see him fiddling with the remote of the tape reel machine.

  • @dilloncaines7678
    @dilloncaines7678 5 років тому

    Box set!!!!!!! 2019!!

  • @KSandy-iy6fg
    @KSandy-iy6fg 4 роки тому

    4:59

  • @bewb1998
    @bewb1998 6 років тому +2

    Realease watered it down

  • @joshjones967
    @joshjones967 7 років тому +1

    SLACKERS PASSWORD!!!!!! RELEASE THAT SHIT, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

  • @petvee6375
    @petvee6375 6 років тому +2

    Slackers Passwords sounds totally like Nirvana.
    Change my mind.

  • @julianuary
    @julianuary 7 років тому +2

    Not to be petty, but isn't Slackers Password called Wasting Time? That's how it was credited in Sonic Highways.

    • @laundryroomstudio
      @laundryroomstudio  7 років тому +9

      I think what happened was that I wrote "wasting time" on the actual 1/2' inch reel of tape when we recorded the song (just going by the chorus), but I just recently found the lyrics and the song was titled "Slackers Password"

    • @julianuary
      @julianuary 7 років тому

      Oh, ok. Good to know. Thanks, man!
      I just like to know accurate information, haha.

    • @JonathanCooperGB
      @JonathanCooperGB 7 років тому +1

      If Dave would ok it, some shots of the lyrics and stories/other stuff behind all these demos would make an incredible book .... I'd buy it

    • @pacomisterio
      @pacomisterio 6 років тому

      Laundry Room Studio Oralee!! Una pregunta bien respondida!!! :D
      Gracias Barret!!