Dave Grohl's 14-year-old daughter Violet is featured on the new Foo Fighters album Medicine At Midnight, set for release on February 5th. Violet supplies backing vocals on the album's opening track, “Making A Fire.”
While chatting with the BBC, Grohl revealed how the collaboration came about, saying, “At around two or three o'clock (every day), I would take a break and go pick her up from school. Sometimes she'd want to come back to the house, and she'd sit on the couch and do her homework.”
He remembered, “One day, (our producer) Greg Kurstin said, 'Hey Violet, would you like to do a back-up vocal?' And she got behind the microphone, she did a few takes, and on the chorus of 'Making A Fire,' that's Violet's high vocal in there.”
Grohl went on to explain, “It didn't seem official until my accountant called a few months ago and asked where she should deposit Violet's check. And I said, 'What are you talking about?' She said, 'Well, she sang on the album, so she has to be paid for playing on the record.' And I said, 'You can take that money and give it to me, and I'll put it in an account for Violet that she can open when she's 18 years old!'”
When we last caught up with Dave Grohl, he told us the most important thing is keeping the human element in music: “The most important thing is that there's a human element to what you're doing. With digital technology, it became a lot easier to manipulate these performances. I think what that does is it really takes a lot of personality out of music, you know. Like John Lennon didn't really sing perfectly in key and John Bonham didn't really play perfectly in time, but they just — it felt great.”
