SYDNEY, Australia (SONY BMG
Music Australia) - The Fooies have risked the well-being of their bellies all in the name of a good clip! The guys shot the video for 'DOA' inside a rotating room, which singer Drave Grohl aptly named "The Barf Ball". We're looking forward to seeing this one...
Foo Fighters have shot the video for 'DOA' with director Mike Palmieri, and it's set to be rather interesting! In what sounds like a rather complex idea, the guys are strapped in a spinning room while a fixed camera films all the action. As the band play the song, the room rotates, with the idea being that the room completes a full circle over the course of the track. Confused? Yeah, us too.
Director Mike Palmieri explained it to MTV like this:
"Halfway through the song, they're completely upside down. The whole video goes one 360-degree rotation ... and at the end ... it's back to zero," he said. "So when you're watching the video, it's slowly turning upside down on you. You'll see the band, and the camera is locked, but their hair is sideways, at a 90-degree angle, which shows that it's the first minute of the video mark. It's pretty much the most confusing video idea ever."
As we thought then. Mike also told MTV that he'd had the idea for the video for a while, but was biding his time until he found a band willing to go the extra yards for video clip brilliance. "I was waiting to spring this idea on the right band. It needed to right band to actually survive making the video," he said.
And Foo Fighters did survive - but only just! With numerous takes in the room Dave Grohl described as "The Barf Ball", the guys started getting a little queasy.
"We had to do about 15 takes inside the room. No one barfed, but they were really getting sick. And they didn't let us know," Mike told MTV. "We'd give them breaks, but as they were getting makeup, and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, I almost peed my pants. I'm gonna die up there!' They really took one for the team."
The 'DOA' clip follows on from the blistering video for the Foo's first single 'Best Of You', shot by Mark Pellington, the man responsible for Pearl Jam's 'Jeremy' vid, and is taken from the guys' chart-topping double-album 'In Your Honor'.
