Foo Fighters Biography

When Foo Fighters released a debut album written and recorded entirely by leader Dave Grohl -- at that point known only as the powerhouse drummer for Nirvana -- in the summer of 1995 few would have guessed that the group would wind up as the one band to survive the '90s alt-rock explosion unscathed.
Once the band's lineup coalesced around the time of its third album in 1999 Foo Fighters' sound also gelled into a recognizable signature built upon the heavy melodic loud-quiet-loud template of the Pixies and Nirvana the modern rock anchored by a love of classic guitar rock. It was commercial without pandering creatively restless without being alienating a sound with wide appeal delivered by a band that was happy to tour and record the way bands did back in the '70s. When Wasting Light became their first number one album in America upon its release in the spring of 2011 it was confirmation that Foo Fighters were survivors who had earned a large devoted audience primarily through hard work.
In the fall of 1994 Grohl and Barrett Jones decamped to a professional studio and recorded the songs that comprised Foo Fighters' debut album in a week. Boiling down his backlog of songs to about 15 tracks Grohl played all of the instruments on the album. He made 100 copies of the tape passing it out to friends and associates. In no time Grohl's solo project became the object of a fierce record company bidding war. Nate Mendel William Goldsmith and Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear rounded out the lineup of the band named Foo Fighters after a World War II secret force that allegedly researched UFOs. The band's self-titled debut consisting solely of Dave Grohl's solo recordings was released on July 4 1995. It became an instant success in America as This Is a Call garnered heavy alternative and album rock airplay. By early 1996 the album was certified platinum in the U.S.

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