“Wheels” by Foo Fighters

"Wheels" was the fresh bait on Foo Fighters' 2009 Greatest Hits, one of two new songs (the other was "Word Forward") the band cut with Butch Vig for the collection. Both were written on the road behind Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, first put down at Grand Master Studios in Hollywood in 2008 and later redone at the band's own Studio 606 in Los Angeles. Dave Grohl had asked Vig on board at a party, and it went well enough that Vig landed the job on Wasting Light next.

It's a big-hearted, mid-tempo rocker, electric and acoustic guitars braided together, riffs trailing feedback, stop-start breaks placed just so, which is roughly what Billboard's Benjamin Sheehan praised. Its first live airing came, of all places, at the White House, at an Independence Day event honoring military service members.

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