Foo Fighters
During his Nirvana years, Dave Grohl used to write stuff that he kept it for himself because he felt it wasn't good enough, compared to what Kurt Cobain used to write (we, the fans of Foo Fighters have to disagree). Some time after Nirvana disbanded, and after reject a lot of offers, including the permanent position and drummer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he decided to start a solo project: "I was supposed to just join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life, I thought that I would rather do what no one expected me to do. I enjoy writing music and I enjoy trying to sing, and there's nothing anyone can really do to discourage me." He recorded twelve of his songs after the seudonim of "Foo Fighters", being this the first, homonymous record. He played every instrument by himself, and made vocals in every track.
After the unexpected success (for him, because it's a really good album and every magazine and specialized media gave good reviews of it) this record had, he had to find a supporting band; he thought about inviting Kris Novoselic (Ex- bass player of Nirvana) to this new band, but both agreed that it would be weird for the public, so, after Sunny Day Real Estate disbanded, he invited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith to join him. The group played its debut show at a keg party in February 1995, and made their live debut on a big venue on March 3, 1995 during a show at The Satyricon in Portland.
Goldsmith left the band during the recording of the second album, "The Colour and the Shape".
The current members are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett. The have released 6 magnificent records: Foo Fighters (1995), The Colour and the Shape (1997), There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), One by One (2002), In Your Honor (2005)(Double disc) and Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)
This time I can't embed the videos due to copyright restrictions, but I highly recomend you to watch Times Like These (Check out, Dave's t shirt), Learn To Fly, Everlong, The Pretender, Big Me and Monkey Wrench.
Related Groups:
Daily Music Dose, School of Rock
| Posted by Severus Snape on 10/22/2009 9:41 PM | Visits: 413 |
I mean no disrespect to you whatsoever, but this is DMD write up is awful. Your first sentence practically obliterates any semblance of Dave's place in music history, nevermind making Nirvana unworthy of a mention. Surely, Nirvana as a whole deserve more respect than "After Kurt Cobain decided this world was full of shit and leave, Dave Grohl considered a lot of new jobs". As someone who has listened to Dave Grohl since his drumming days, I'm very disappointed. You never mentioned the how he recorded the first album entirely by himself or even his thinly veiled jab at Courtney Love with "I'll Stick Around"...and that's just the first album. I realize this is the internet and therefore not SRS BSNS, but I really think you could have done a lot better.
This write-up looks like a quick mobile blog but not like a write-up about the band you love.
There's much more to say about this band. Sorry but even the reviews on Amazon are better.
It gives no information! People who don't know the history of Nirvana even don't know what Dave Grohl has to do with Kurt Cobain. Who is Dave Grohl?
It's just a discography and list with the band members for me but there is no real information about them and their music.
I'm sure you can write so much better!
And you obviously don't write more than spam.
I also really like Dave Grohls appearence in The pic of destiny! One of my friends own a t-shirt that says 'Dave Grohl is God'...but in The pic of Destiny he played the devil. That's quite amusing.