Video: Foo Fighters: "Long Road to Ruin"
Dave Grohl's willingness to be a ham was part of what made old Foo Fighters videos like "Everlong" or "Learn to Fly" so endearing, and this quality is in full evidence again here. When tensions run high on the set of hospital soap opera "Long Road to Ruin", mustachioed actor Davy Grolton starts a rock band to win back his love interest. He also cries a lot, cruising in his convertible down that aforementioned road.
The charming video, for the song from Foo Fighters' new Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, can't compensate for a tune I've already forgotten. Still, directed by "Big Me" and "Learn to Fly" guy Jesse Peretz, with the acting talents of Rashida Jones from "The Office", this clip is a damn sight better than the band's previous rock-cliché monstrosity for "The Pretender". On the other hand, even though that video was pretty bad, it was nothing worth pulling a Thelma and Louise crash-landing over. You had your whole soap-opera career ahead of you, Grolton! Don't do it, reconsider, read some literature on the subject.
Video:> Foo Fighters: "Long Road to Ruin"
[from Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace; out now on Roswell/RCA]