Evil Knievel Didn't Jump Over Generation Gap

For weeks I've bummed around the radio station snagging conversations about Rock music and into the center of the verbal exchange I toss in, "Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl. Which one was more excited about collaborating on a new song?" Talk about the river that runs through Generation Gap. Classic Rocker's versus New Rock Bangers. I can't shake a Blog free from my fingertips before being chastised by either party. It's a ligament Hatfield and McCoys. A fight between the separated sides of Rock, "Quit puttin up stuff about Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. We don't care about Metallica and Tom Morello. They aren't Classic Rock!" Then Paul McCartney walks out from behind the curtain with Dave Grohl at his side. I'm not so f***ed up after all. Ultimate Classic Rock Magazine reports; if it seemed ‘Cut Me Some Slack,’ Paul McCartney‘s collaboration with the surviving members of Nirvana that was unveiled during the 12-12-12 benefit, came out of nowhere, don’t feel like you’re out of the loop — according to Dave Grohl, that’s really the way it happened. Describing McCartney as “just the sweetest, nicest, most awesome person,” Grohl delved into the story behind the song during a recent interview with KROQ (via the NME), saying it came together after the pair jammed for Grohl’s upcoming ‘Sound City‘ documentary. “We walked in; we jammed the song. It just came out of nowhere. The best songs happen that way,” said Grohl. “We recorded it live and put a vocal over it and that was it. It was three hours and it was perfect.” ‘Cut Me Some Slack’ wouldn’t make its public debut for another eight months, but Grohl was clearly still buzzing on the experience. “You have to understand, one of the great things about playing with Paul McCartney or playing with Neil Young is that that generation of musicians, they cherish and respect and value the practice of just going into a room and coming up with something and jamming and making it a song,” he pointed out. “There’s not like seven songwriters and seven producers and digital technology or whatever. It’s like people getting in a room.”