Foo Fighters Biography
Foo Fighters was created by tragic circumstances. After the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994 and the subsequent dissolution of the band, drummer Dave Grohl decided to focus on recording a collection of songs he had developed for a few years. He covered all the vocals and almost all instruments himself and called his debut Foo Fighters in 1995, which was also the name of his new band, a reference to World War II terminology for unidentified flying objects. The album shows Grohl's melodic rock songs related to hard rock and punk, capturing the band's musical blueprint.
Foo Fighters
When it came time to hit the road to support Foo Fighters, Grohl recruited two former members of the alternative rock group Sunny Day Real Estate — drummer William Goldsmith and bassist Nate Mendel — and guitarist Pat Smear, who was part of Nirvana for the final tour of that tyre. Foo Fighters was now a full-fledged band, but the lineup was about to go through a series of changes. When Foo Fighters reconvened in the studio in 1996 to record The follow-up The Color and the Shape, tensions between Grohl and Goldsmith began to grow over the album's drum sounds. Unhappy with Grohl's decision to re-record the drums alone, Goldsmith left the band. Grohl led Taylor Hawkins, who had worked with Alanis Morissette, to replace Goldsmith on the next tour.
