There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage,” Grohl says. “Why go into the most expensive studio with the biggest producer and use the best state-of-the-art equipment? Where’s the rock’n’roll in that? What happened to the kid who dropped out of high school, painted houses and worked in a furniture warehouse just so that he could get on the road and fucking escape from everything? I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.