Dave Grohl Hopes Lemmy Is Alive And Heard The New Foo Fighters Album

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JAKARTA - There is a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister on the new album Foo Fighters. No wonder Dave Grohl hopes his old friend is still alive to hear the album.

Talk to OK magazine! Grohl revealed that the recently released No Son Of Mine is a tribute to frontman Motörhead.

Lemmy's influence on Grohl was significant in various aspects of his musical career. Over the years, Grohl had high praise for the late Lemmy, who he first met at an LA strip club, then worked on his Probot project, and was later recruited for the music video for the single Foo Fighters White Limo.

No Son of Mine, the second single to be released from Medicine At Midnight, Foo Fighters' forthcoming tenth album, reverses the traditional notion of a violent father raising his child to worship God and fear sin.

"I wasn't raised in a religion, I never went to church," Grohl recently told Uncut magazine. "But I was sent to a Catholic school for two years as a reformer when I was a teenager. My religion is my record collection, I view the musicians as my saints and their songs as my hymns."

Speaking to OK !, Grohl revealed that No Son Of Mine was originally written with country swing beats but later made it more aggressive and turned into a song with thick riffs.

"I hope Lemmy is alive to hear it," said Grohl, "because he's going to see how much it affects me."