Three rock giants joined forces to record a cover of one of the greatest punk bands in history. We're talking about the union of none other than Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters , Scott Ian and Charlie Benante of Anthrax , who together recorded a cover of the song "The Regulator" by Bad Brains .
Speaking about how the idea for the project came about, Ian says ( via Blabbermouth ): “Anthrax were recording our new album at 606 and the Foo's were there rehearsing at the same time. Dave showed up at the studio to hear what we were doing and I went to listen to the Foo's rehearse. I texted Dave the next morning and said, 'Hey! Good to see you another day. Are you rehearsing today? I'll be there playing guitar. Want to record a Minor Threat ? Bad Brains?' He immediately replied with the Spotify link for 'The Regulator'. I said I'd be there at 12:30 and he said, 'See you at 1pm'. It was that simple.”
HR 's health . All profits will be donated to him for this. And what better day to do this than Record Store Day? It helps indie stores too, everyone wins.”
And he continues: “We recorded 'The Regulator' live in two takes, the way it should be! It was so much fun playing with Dave on drums and hearing his voice with my guitar! We're all big Bad Brains fans and we've been asking ourselves WWBBD? ( What would Bad Brains do ?) a lot of times.”
The project, named GBI (Grohl, Benante and Ian), was recorded in just two live takes at Grohl's Studio 606 late last year. The single will be released on April 20th, Record Store Day, on a seven-inch record with cover art by Benante.
"Record Store Day" was conceived in 2007 and is a union of independent record store owners, aiming to celebrate music culture by bringing together fans, store owners, and artists. It takes place on a Saturday in April. Currently, it involves approximately 1,400 independent record stores in the United States and thousands of other stores spread across almost every other country.
The song "The Regulator" is from the self-titled 1982 album, Bad Brains , one of the group's most famous, featuring a sequence of songs in a frenetic rhythm, interspersed with reggae beats and executed with extreme precision. This style, characteristic of the band, paved the way for many other punk and hardcore groups that came after Bad Brains. The profits from the re-recording of "The Regulator" will be donated to the treatment of HR , the vocalist of Bad Brains, who suffers from a syndrome called SUNCT.
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