“The Feast And The Famine” by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters made Sonic Highways, their eighth album, by hauling themselves to eight American cities and cutting a song in each, and "The Feast and the Famine" is the Washington, D.C. chapter, the record's second track and second single in 2014. It's a salute to the city's hardcore punk scene, tracked at Inner Ear Studio in Arlington County, Virginia, with Butch Vig producing alongside the band, James Brown recording and mixing and Don Zientara co-recording.

Pete Stahl and Skeeter Thompson of the Virginia punk band Scream turn up for the gang vocals, Rami Jaffee adds organ, and Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear pile three guitars on top of Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins. The lyric name-checks PMA, as in Positive Mental Attitude. They debuted it live at D.C.'s Black Cat club, but after a single outing on the 2015 tour it hasn't been played since.

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