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Contents Articles Foo Fighters 1 2011 MTV Video Music Awards 11 24 Hours of Foo 17 Alanis Morissette 19 Ann Marie Calhoun 32 Backbeat (soundtrack) 38 Best of You 39 Big Me 44 Bleed Like Me 46 Breakout (Foo Fighters song) 58 Brian May 61 Bridge Burning 76 Capitol Records 78 Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) 90 Chris Shiflett 92 DOA (song) 97 Dain Bramage 100 Dave Grohl 102 Dave Grohl discography 115 Deadmau5 122 Down in the Park 133 Everlong 136 Everywhere but Home 140 Exhausted (song) 143 Five Songs and a Cover 145 Foo Fighters (album) 146 Foo Fighters discography 155 Foo fighter 167 Foozer 171 For All the Cows 173 Gil Norton 175 Godzilla (1998 film) 178 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album 187 Greatest Hits (Foo Fighters album) 191 Greg Dulli 199 Hangout Music Festival 202 Hard rock 205 Harmony and Dissidence 219 Have It All (song) 221 Have a Cigar 222 Heathen (David Bowie album) 225 I'll Stick Around 232 In Your Honor 234 Invaders Must Die 246 Iommi (album) 255 Jackson United 258 James Moll 261 Jesse Peretz 263 Jimmy Page 265 John Paul Jones (musician) 285 Killing Joke 296 Krist Novoselic 308 Learn to Fly 314 Lemmy 317 Let It Die (song) 330 Live at Wembley Stadium (Foo Fighters DVD) 332 Lollapalooza 335 Long Road to Ruin 340 Low (Foo Fighters song) 343 MTV Video Music Award 345 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 365 Medium Rare (Foo Fighters album) 368 Mike Watt 370 Miracle (Foo Fighters song) 379 Monkey Wrench (song) 381 My Hero (song) 384 Nate Mendel 388 National Bowl 391 Next Year 394 Nine Inch Nails 397 Nirvana (band) 418 No More Censorship 428 No Use for a Name 430 No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun 434 One by One (Foo Fighters album) 436 Pat Smear 448 Petra Haden 453 Pocketwatch (album) 456 Post-grunge 459 Probot 461 Queen (band) 466 Queens of the Stone Age 493 RCA Records 505 Rami Jaffee 515 Record Store Day 519 Red Light Fever (Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders album) 525 Resolve (song) 527 Robert Lang Studios 529 Rock music 530 Rope (song) 569 Scream (band) 573 Scream 2 576 Skin and Bones 586 Skin and Bones (song) 592 Songs for the Deaf 593 Stacked Actors 603 Sunny Day Real Estate 606 Taylor Hawkins 612 Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders 616 Tenacious D 618 The Colour and the Shape 630 The Fire Theft 640 The One (Foo Fighters song) 642 The Pretender (Foo Fighters song) 644 The Wallflowers 649 Them Crooked Vultures 653 Them Crooked Vultures (album) 658 There Is Nothing Left to Lose 664 These Days (Foo Fighters song) 671 This Is a Call 674 Tie Your Mother Down 677 Times Like These (song) 680 Wasting Light 684 Wheels (Foo Fighters song) 705 William Goldsmith 708 With Teeth 712 References Article Sources and Contributors 722 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 742 Article Licenses License 747 Foo Fighters 1 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters Foo Fighters performing in November 2007. Background information Origin Seattle, Washington Genres [1][2] [3] Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock, grunge Years active 1994–present Labels RCA, Capitol Associated acts Tenacious D, Nirvana,Sunny Day Real Estate, No Use for a Name, Jackson United, The Fire Theft, Scream, Them Crooked Vultures, Germs, Petra Haden, Ann Marie Calhoun Members Dave Grohl Nate Mendel Taylor Hawkins Chris Shiflett Pat Smear Past members William Goldsmith Franz Stahl Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the death of Kurt Cobain and the resulting dissolution of his previous band. The group got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as foo fighters. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters' 1995 debut album Foo Fighters, which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as fellow Nirvana touring bandmate Pat Smear as guitarist to complete the lineup. The band began with performances in Portland, Oregon. Goldsmith quit during the recording of the group's second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997) when most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl himself. Smear's departure followed soon afterward. They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl was fired before the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the band's lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its Foo Fighters 2 fourth album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. In 2010, it was confirmed that Smear had officially rejoined the band after touring with Foo Fighters as an unofficial member between 2006 and 2009. Over the course of the band's career, four of its albums have won 11 Grammy Awards winning Best Rock Album four times. The band's seventh studio album, Wasting Light, was released in 2011. History Formation and debut album (1994–1995) Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer in 1990. During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs. Grohl held back these songs from the rest of the band; he said in 1997, "I was in awe of [frontman Kurt Cobain's songs], and [I was] intimidated. I thought it was best that I kept my [4] songs to myself." Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers of songs he liked and even issued a cassette of some of those songs called [5] Pocketwatch under the pseudonym "Late!" in 1992. Frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994, and Nirvana subsequently disbanded. Grohl received offers to work with various artists; he almost accepted a permanent position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Ultimately Grohl declined and instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to [5] record fifteen of the forty songs he had written. With the exception of a guitar Dave Grohl (pictured in 2006) part on "X-Static," played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Grohl played founded Foo Fighters after his [6] every instrument and sang every vocal on the tracks. "I was supposed to just previous band Nirvana broke up in join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life," Grohl later said. "I 1994. 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." Grohl completed an [5] album's worth of material in five days and handed out cassette copies of the sessions to his friends for feedback. Grohl hoped to keep his anonymity and release the recordings in a limited run under the title "Foo Fighters", taken [5] from the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to unidentified flying objects. However, the demo tape [7] circulated in the music industry, creating interest among record labels. Grohl formed a band to support the album. Initially, he talked to former Nirvana band mate Krist Novoselic about joining the group, but both decided against it. "For Krist and I, it would have felt really natural and really great", Grohl explained. "But for everyone else, it would have been weird, and it would have left me in a really bad position. Then I really would have been under the [8] microscope." Having heard about the disbanding of Seattle-based rock band Sunny Day Real Estate, Grohl drafted the group's bass player, Nate Mendel, and drummer, William Goldsmith. Grohl asked Pat Smear, who served as a [9] touring guitarist for Nirvana after the release of its 1993 album, In Utero, to join as the group's second guitarist.