Whats the biggest difference in die music you e making nowadays compared to in die early days?
Grohl: One is that we’re much more prepared. Rather than going into the studio and writing music in session, we’ve written most of the music before getting in here, so we’re prepared. I can already hear what kind of album it’s going to be.   It’s great when you walk into the studio and you throw down an idea that’s spontaneous and new and fresh and exciting, but then you wind up a year later playing that live and you’ve elaborated on it, you’ve made it better. And that’s kind of what we’ve done. I think if we’d made the album six months ago it wouldn’t be as good as making the album now, because the music that we were writing. six months ago, some of it we’ve kept and just elaborated on. It’s twice as good as it was before. Shiflett: I don’t know how to say it exactly, but with ‘Times Like These’ off our last record, three or six months into touring, however long it was, it sounded totally different and more powerful and a little more interesting than it did on the record. We wrote
