I've read alot of Interviews about it and Will just dosn't like to talk
about it, but I get the idea that he might have felt intimidated by Grohl.
You have to understand one thing, Dave Grohl is an amazing "straight
ahead" drummer probably the best, whereas Will is a really amazing
"creative" drummer and he does really awesome fucked-up off time shit,
something I've never heard from Grohl. And he (Goldsmith) has a little
more Linear drumming style. But I think I read somewhere (I'm not sure if
Will was saying this or if it was the interviewer) where he said something
to the effect of
When Dave would have a riff it would be like, sure you can come up with
any drum beat you want but I bet that I already have one in my head thats
100 times better.
I have a feeling that Will held back his drumming in order to please Grohl
but He just took that as an excuse to rerecord Will's tracks. I have
never heard "The Colour and the Shape" but I know they kept Will's drums
on one or two of the songs, I wonder what his parts sound like. I also
heard somewhere that Will developed Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in Europe while
touring with Foo Fighters, he comnented on that in an interview by saying
that, "those songs always had to be Balls to the Walls" I saw the foo
fighters play in Chicago on the Mike Watt tour and at one point during
Watt's set both Will and Dave were playing Drums while Eddie Vedder was
playing Guitar, Watt was playing bass ofcourse and Pat Smear was singing.
It was very very cool.
