Foo Fighters Include Piece of Original Master Tape in Copies of Wasting Light

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The Foo Fighters‘ new album Wasting Light (out today) hardly looks like a 21^st-century album release. The groovy multicolored cover art looks like it would be more at home in a disco, and a sticker on the front proudly states that it was “Recorded Entirely On Analog Tape In Dave’s Garage.”

As if to emphasize the oddity, copies of Wasting Light are also packaged with a piece of the actual master tape. Yes, really — the album’s master has been sliced into “a million fucking pieces,” according to Dave Grohl, and redistributed to the masses.

Analog collectors, take note: you’ll receive an inch or two of  magnetic recording tape, already speculated to be AMPEX or Quantegy Grand Master 456 Studio Audio Tape for use in a 16-track recorder.

While its true that Grohl and company did indeed destroy their master — the closest thing they’ve got is second-generation backup reels — they do also have digital backups, just in case they’re needed for Guitar Hero or other non-analog-friendly endeavors.

Fans looking to band together to see if they can make a longer piece of completed music with their tape fragments have their work cut out for them. As Grohl tells LA Weekly:

“They’d probably get one note, or one drumbeat. I mean, the pieces of tape are like an inch by an inch piece of tape. We chop it up into a million fucking pieces … if a million people got together and put it back together, they’d get a whole album.”