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Foo Fighters
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_(cropped).jpg) Foo Fighters at Glastonbury Festival 2023. From left: Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Josh Freese, and Pat Smear. | |
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| Origin | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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| Discography | Foo Fighters discography |
| Years active | 1994–present[a] |
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| Website | foofighters |
The Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Founded as a one-man project by the former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the band comprises Grohl (lead vocals, guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (guitar) Pat Smear (guitar), Rami Jaffee (keyboards) and Josh Freese (drums).
Grohl created the Foo Fighters to release solo material after Nirvana broke up in 1994, and recorded their eponymous debut album (1995) mostly alone in six days. After the songs drew label interest, he recruited Mendel and the drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, and Smear, who had played with Nirvana on tour. The band made their first public performance in February 1995, five months before the album's release.
Goldsmith quit during the recording of their second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997), and most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl. Smear departed soon afterward. They were replaced by the guitarist Franz Stahl and the drummer Taylor Hawkins. 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 Shiflett joined after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The group released their fourth album, One by One, in 2002, followed by the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. The Foo Fighters released their sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007.
For the Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light (2011), produced by Butch Vig, Smear returned as a full-time member, after having appeared frequently with the band since 2005. Sonic Highways (2014) was released as the soundtrack to the television miniseries directed by Grohl. Concrete and Gold (2017) was the second Foo Fighters album to top the charts in the United States and the first to feature Jaffee, their longtime session and touring keyboardist, as a full member. Their tenth album, Medicine at Midnight (2021), was the last before Hawkins' death in March 2022. He was replaced by Freese the following year. Their eleventh album, But Here We Are, was released in June 2023.
The Foo Fighters have won 15 Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album five times, making them among the most successful rock acts in Grammy history.[4] In 2021, the band was announced as recipients of the first "Global Icon" award at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, their first year of eligibility.
- ^ Young, Alex (September 12, 2014). "Foo Fighters performed a secret show as The Holy Shits in an abandoned train tunnel". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
- ^ Kreps, Daniel (June 17, 2021). "Foo Fighters' Bee Gees Tribute Band Announces 'Hail Satin' LP". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
- ^ Savage, Mark (June 23, 2023). "Foo Fighters make 'surprise' return to Glastonbury". BBC News.
- ^ "Dave Grohl interview: 'I’m going to fix my leg and then I’m going to come back'" Archived June 19, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. telegraph.co.uk, June 18, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
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