Release and Promotion
The price of the album was just one dollar above what is paid for a regular single disk CD, as Grohl thought the albums "complemented each other in one package, and I don't need any more money". The first 25,000 US copies were in a special edition DualDisc set containing a "making of" documentary in the first disc, and the second disc in 5.1 surround sound. RCA also issued limited 5,000 copies of a quadruple vinyl LP record. The promotional campaign included the MTV special 24 Hours of Foo.
Lead single "Best of You" was released on May 30, 2005, and became the band's highest-charting single at the main American, British, and Australian charts. Follow-up "DOA" was released in August 22, after an early debut as a ringtone for Cingular cell phones. Like "Best of You" it proceeded to top Billboard's Modern Rock Songs chart. "Resolve" and a compact with both "No Way Back" and "Cold Day in the Sun" were also issued as singles. "No Way Back" was included on the Madden NFL 06 video game.
The release was promoted with the In Your Honor Tour. The tour began in the summer of 2005, and ran through to June 2006. It featured two shows per city, an electric one in arenas and an acoustic in smaller venues. The late 2005 concerts included the Foozer tour co-headlined with Weezer. Among the additional band for the acoustic shows was guitarist Pat Smear, who had been in the Foo Fighters from 1995 to 1997, and followed the In Your Honor Tour with another five years as a touring musician before rejoining as a full-time member for the recording of Wasting Light. The acoustic shows from August 29, 30 and 31, 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles were turned into the live album Skin and Bones.
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