Dave Grohl to release Bad Brains cover with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Charlie Benante for Record Store Day
nme.comDave Grohl is set to release a Bad Brains cover with Anthrax‘s Scott Ian and Charlie Benante for Record Store Day 2024.Back in November last year, Anthrax teased a collaboration with the Foo Fighters frontman on their social media.
The band shared a photo with Grohl and captioned it: “New album is going to be awesome #FooThrax”.Now, it’s been revealed that Grohl will team up with Anthrax co-founder Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante for an exclusive Record Store Day 7 inch.
The trio will release a cover of hardcore legends Bad Brains’ ‘The Regulator’ under the name G.B.I., and only 3000 coopies will be pressed.On Instagram, Ian wrote that the cover came to be when Anthrax and the Foos were coincidentally recording at the same time at Studio 606.
When Ian bumped into Grohl, he texted him the next day, suggesting a Minor Threat or Bad Brains cover. In response, Grohl “replied immediately with the Spotify link for ‘The Regulator’.” “I said I’d be there at 12:30pm and he said, ‘See you at 1,'” Ian revealed. “It was that simple.”“We ripped Regulator live in 2 takes, the way it should be!
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