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Foo Fighters

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Los Angeles, United States (1995 – present)

Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. The group is named after the World War II term “foo fighter”, used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena.

The Foo Fighters began as a solo project taken up by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. On the debut album, Foo Fighters, released in 1995, Grohl plays all the instruments. (save for one guitar part recorded by Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs) on

X-Static) However, Grohl subsequently formed a band to play live shows and support the album.

At that time, the band consisted of Grohl (vocals, guitar, occasional drums), Nate Mendel formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate (bass), Pat Smear (guitar) and William Goldsmith of Sunny Day Real Estate (drums). However, after a dispute with Goldsmith during the recording of the next album The Colour and the Shape, Grohl fired the drummer in the middle of the recording process and recorded the rest of the percussion himself.

Soon afterwards, current drummer and backing vocalist Taylor Hawkins joined. Smear announced his resignation from the band in 1997, introducing Franz Stahl as his replacement. But Stahl would only last until 1999, at which point he was replaced by final current member, Chris Shiflett. (former guitarist for the punk band No Use for a Name and current guitarist for punk rock cover version band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and Jackson United) Initially as a touring guitarist, but later as a full time band member.

Grohl took time out to play drums on Vitriol I.D.’s opus ‘Fascinate By Hate’ as well as a rough version of ‘When The Atom Splits’

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glennsimuk wrote:
5 hours ago

Wembley DVD tracklisting is not of the complete shows, hoped that there would be bonuses of songs that were different for the two days. Still good to have quality copy of it on dvd tho. This Is A Call, Let It Die and Big Me are missing. as for the saturday the songs But, Honestly, DOA and Generator are missing. would be good for these as extras.

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Palpatine73 wrote:
yesterday evening

Live so much power...love them

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ZeppelinGTS wrote:
Tuesday evening

Sexy funtime GUARANTEED: http://www.last.fm/group/Group+A

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nevverenough wrote:
Tuesday evening

No one loves cookies moar than you do except david grohl cuz he has his mouth filled with brown cookies. It's obvious.

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DAcookiemonster wrote:
Tuesday morning

JOIN THE We Love The Cookie Monster IF YOU LOVE COOKIES JUST AS MUCH AS I DO!! :D

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sfLiPeR wrote:
Monday evening

I want them here in Brazil!

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c4rrot wrote:
Monday afternoon

They were so good live! I felt bad for Against Me! though, (They opened for Foo Fighters) and nobody seemed to know who they were :[ I'm totally going to see them again live the next time they're in Chicago.

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coolcat77 wrote:
Monday afternoon

We hate teen pop

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purplover wrote:
Monday afternoon

Amazing live!!

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LlSA wrote:
Monday afternoon

I want to see them live again :D

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Dookiac wrote:
Monday afternoon

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Willlem wrote:
Sunday evening

Awesome band. Especialy live.

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Van12 wrote:
Sunday evening

man come to mexico, im dying!!!!

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drkawa wrote:
Sunday morning

They ROCK live. Colour/Shape is the best Album. One of my fav' bands!

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CloudMts1211 wrote:
Sunday morning

The best band ever

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Silenzioso-7 wrote:
Sunday morning

Long Road To Ruin haters :}

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davidforsyth wrote:
Saturday evening

Click HERE to join Indie Rock 'n' Roll.

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Lord_Krichian wrote:
Saturday morning

good

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celioqueiroz195 wrote:
Friday afternoon

The Band Fool Fighters, is one of the best ones of the sort!

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Felmyruh wrote:
7 days ago

nirvana's better.

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