Foo Fighters - These Days

What this video is

Released at the apex of Foo Fighters' commercial and critical resurgence, this video accompanies the third single from 'Wasting Light' (2011) — an album recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl's garage that debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The video's documentary-style treatment deliberately inverted the era's trend toward high-budget narrative or CGI-heavy clips, instead anchoring its emotional power in…

Why it matters

Exemplifies the 2010s documentary aesthetic in rock music videos — eschewing constructed narrative for raw concert verité. Wayne Isham, a defining architect of the live-performance music video format since the late 1980s (Bon Jovi, Metallica, Def Leppard), applies that arena-rock visual grammar to…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American music video and film director active since the early 1980s. Inspired by David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes,' he built a career directing over 200 projects for artists including Metallica, Bon…