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About Foo Fighters
While he was drumming with Nirvana, Dave Grohl was recording
original songs at home that never received public release. Those tapes
would become the foundation of Foo Fighters, the band he formed in
1995, after the death of Kurt Cobain. Like Nirvana, Foo Fighters
melded loud, heavy guitars with pretty melodies and mixed punk
sensibilities with a sharp sense of pop songwriting.
Dave Grohl began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens,
as well as performing with a variety of hardcore punk bands. In the
late '80s, when he was still in his teens, he joined the Washington,
D.C.-area hardcore band Scream as their drummer. During the final days
of Scream, Grohl began recording his own material in the basement
studio of his friend Barrett Jones. Some of Grohl's songs appeared on
Scream's final album, Fumble. After Scream's 1990 summer tour, Grohl
joined Nirvana and moved to Seattle.
After Nirvana recorded Nevermind, Grohl went back to the D.C. area and
recorded a handful of tracks that would appear on Pocketwatch, a
cassette released by Simple Machines. For most of 1992 he was busy
with Nirvana, but when the band stayed off of the road, he recorded
solo material with Jones, who had moved to Seattle. The pair kept
recording throughout early 1993, when Grohl returned to Nirvana to
record In Utero. Grohl had toyed with the idea of releasing another
independent cassette in the summer of 1993, but the plans never
reached fruition. Following Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, the drummer
kept quiet for several months. In the fall of 1994, booking time in a
professional studio, Grohl and Jones recorded the album that became
Foo Fighters' debut album in a week. Boiling down his backlog of songs
to about 15 tracks, Grohl played all of the instruments on the album.
He made 100 copies of the tape, passing it out to friends and
associates. In no time, Dave Grohl's solo project became the object of
a fierce record company bidding war.
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Instead of embarking on a full-fledged solo career, Grohl decided
to form a band. Through his wife he met Nate Mendel, the bassist for
Sunny Day Real Estate. Shortly before the pair met, Jeremy Enigk, the
leader of Sunny Day Real Estate, had converted to Christianity and
quit the band, effectively ending the group's career. Not only did
Mendel join Grohl's band, but so did Sunny Day's drummer, William
Goldsmith; former Germs and Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear rounded out
the lineup. The band, named Foo Fighters after a World War II secret
force that allegedly researched UFOs, signed a contract with Capitol
Records. The Foo Fighters? self-titled debut, consisting solely of
Dave Grohl's solo recordings, was released on July 4, 1995. It was an
instant success in America, as "This Is a Call" garnered heavy
alternative and album rock airplay. By early 1996, the album was
certified platinum in the U.S.
Throughout 1996, Foo Fighters supported the album with an extensive
tour, enjoying a crossover hit with "Big Me" that spring. Late in the
year, the Foo Fighters began recording their second album with
producer Gil Norton. During the sessions, William Goldsmith left the
band due to creative tensions, leaving Grohl to drum on the majority
of the album. Before the record's release in the spring of 1997,
Goldsmith was replaced by Taylor Hawkins, who had previously drummed
with Alanis Morissette. The Colour and the Shape, the Foo Fighters'
second album and the first they recorded as a band, was issued in May
of 1997. Smear left the Foo Fighters in the wake of the album's
completion, and was replaced by guitarist Franz Stahl, whose stay
proved short-lived; 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded
as a three-piece, with ex-No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett
signing on soon after.
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