PROBOT: PROBOT

Written by The Theory
Published February 18, 2004

Welcome to Cafe Musica y Muerte! How may we start off your stay today? Yes? I see. Allow me to make a sugerencia*? A suggestion! First, do you prefer privacy, or are you more social? Of course, no offense taken! You the cliente, our customer, will always have the final word in your order! Now! You say you prefer headphones? Let me lead you this way.

There! Is that a nice booth or what? What style of headphones do you find yourself most attracted to? Mmmhm? Por supuesto! Just a second. Ah! Here we go. The earbuds, they are our cheapest for the value! It's like ordering the cheeseburger off McDonnie's dollar menu. Yes, good! But, if you need more than a snack it might not quite satisfy. The step up from that is the headphones that are a plastic thingamabob that wrap across the top of your head, not unlike the sort you get free when you buy a cd player. It's like a whore, if you will. May satisfy for the moment, but you won't look fondly back on the experience. Now, our alto coste model is the padded, noise reducing set which can go to volumes two and three times as loud as either of the other options without a crackle or pop of unwanted noise! Excellent decision, amigo! Wait a second and I'll bring a set of your own for the duration of your stay.

That wasn't too long, la derecha? Do you have a choice already, or would you like me to list some things we suggest for you? Well, you have, in your profilo, pardon the sudden Italian! some projects which have featured David Grohl. Nirvana, the Foo Fighters, and current Queens of the Stone Age. I asuma that you, then, have heard the new Grohl project, PROBOT? No?

Well, mi bueno amigo, Probot is Grohl's musical vehicle to his roots. Back before he became famoso in Nirvana, he was in a heavy metal band. Didn't you always wish you were in a heavy metal band? And, of course, he listens to bands like Venom and Napalm Death and Voivod, and many other heavy metal and hardcore and punk bands which make Abuela scream! For, of course, she has a weak heart!

Probot is the end product of four years of labor and preocupacion. Grohl has created a project where he plays drums and he plays bass and he plays guitar. I dare say he's like a camaleon. But rather then be all predictable, he didn't do the lead vocals. Instead, do you know what he did? He went and got people from those bands he listens to that makes Grandma faint! Can you imagine what it would be like to lasso all them vocalists up to get them to sing for him? Maybe he called them and said, 'Hi. I am David Grohl from Nirvana and I need you.' Or perhaps he played with them a bit. 'Hi. I'm doing a musical project and was wondering if you could...' and then the phone would go muerto and he'd grin impishly and call right back, 'I forgot to mention that this is David Grohl.' and of course they'd do it. I mean, who want's to risk the wrath of the mighty Grohl himself?

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Published: February 18, 2004
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#1 — February 18, 2004 @ 11:49AM — Kev

The stuff kills actually. Even the Jack Black track (althought I think the Tom G. Warrior track kinda blows). This however is not for the feint of heart. Funny thing is though, you can hear bits and pieces of old school thrash and metal in the Foos if you listen closely. Everything he's done in the last couple years from Queens of the Stone Age to the latest Killing Joke really rips. He's clearly on a roll.

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