In an interview with Warren Huart, recording engineer Bradley Cook looks back on engineering the Foo Fighters classic The Colour and the Shape- particularly Dave Grohl’s work on the song “Everlong”. Alternative Nation transcribed comments from the interview. Hearing the vocals isolated off the mixing console, Cook recollected:
“On this record, Dave told me the first record, Dave tripled all his vocals, just tripled them out-that’s not so great and Gil [Norton, producer of the FF’s sophomore effort] kind of wanted him to step out of that and do more lead vocally stuff cause Dave hated his voice. So he [Dave] wanted to double, triple it; some of the songs were single vocals and it brought him out.”
Source: William Spevack/alternativenation.net