That time Dave Grohl was awesome

[Randy]

Probot is massively overlooked. For all of Dave Grohl's supposed metal cred, most of his output is shitty indie rock music. THIS, however, was a near 10/10

Fucking Lemmy

King goddamn Diamond with Kim Thayil

[Budda]

I remember buying this in high school and being disappointed

[playstopause]

Foo Fighters or not, Dave Grohl as always been cool in my book.

[Randy]

I remember buying this in high school and being disappointed

Curious what missed your expectations. Too metal? Not metal enough?

[beneharris]

I remember buying this in high school and being disappointed

It missed the mark for me too. I really should give it another go.

[Budda]

Curious what missed your expectations. Too metal? Not metal enough?

Not metal enough. Iirc i was deep into melodeath type stuff (arch enemy, dark tranquillity, amon amarth etc) and was left very confused. I understood the guests were big deals but didnt get the music.

[petereanima]

The Probot LP is seriously one of the thigns that is at the same time under- AND overrated. It was completely hyped at the release, but - imho - due to Dave's "usual" invovlements, to the wrong crowd - typical Foo Fighters/Nirvana fans are not the audience for this. At the same time, most of the metalheads ignored it, also due to "pffff, DAve Grohl fokken nirvana...".

LP was released by Southern Lord iirc, and that was at a time when they started heavy promotion of stuff like Sunn O))), Khanate and Earth - so their audience (usually the ex-Black Metal/og Hardcore "elite") was deep enough into it to "get" it, but besides the Shake Your Blood single (which got heavy airplay back then), i had the feeling nobody liked it.

But frankly, the record is a gem that you can enjoy from start to finish - and it also really shows what a talented guy Dave is. Dude managed to NAIL the style for each of the guests.

[Randy]

I think it was here for a hot second but never broke the top 50. It had a couple weeks at most that "hey Dave Grohl made a metal album" got it any press but that didn't really help sales in the long term.

But yeah, kinda what Budda said... This came out post nu metal but it wasn't groovy, during melodeath and metalcore but it wasn't very elaborate or overproduced. So if you were an early 2000s metal kid it probably missed it's mark but the line-up put together is was too trv kvlt to deny.

[d8200]

I still have this CD lying around somewhere. Just as you guys said, my indie-rock and grunge friends said it was too heavy, my metalhead friends were like "fuck that dude" and didn't give it a listen. I remember the album as a whole was solid, but there were only a few standout songs (Lemmy's being one). As for Dave Grohl's metal cred, you have to be a serious fan to know who some of these people/bands are. It's not like he called up the "Big 4" metal bands and did blatantly commerical cash-grab album.