In an interview with Dave Fanning for RTÉ's "Planet Rock Profiles" before the Foo Fighters' appearance at the 1996 Féile Festival, Dave Grohl said of "Zen Arcade", "That album was amazing. I mean, Black Flag was early on, and then when I discovered "Zen Arcade" I thought, "God, these people write songs, man". It's amazing. It's like the Byrds meets Black Flag, and it just blew me away, and the songs just stuck in your head forever and they were just amazing. When that album, "Zen Arcade", was recorded...I think it was recorded just straight, and I think they all took acid and recorded it in 48 hours. They did the whole album. That is what I had heard. And, to me, I was just like, "God, these people are genius", you know? "This is... this is amazing"."