The guitarist, who loves to wear dresses and often outfitted himself in outlandish stage gear, began appearing on MTV's House of Style. Despite the band's success and popularity, Goldsmith left the Foo Fighters' vaulted orbit after a falling-out with Grohl. In recording their second album,...
As the line inFoo Fighters' "All My Life" goes, "Done I'm done, and I'm onto the next one." But as it turns out, Foo Fighters were almost done before moving onto the next one that would be theirOne By Onealbum. While on the surface, the band seemed to be on top of the wo...
Foo Fighters’ 2011 albumWasting Lightwas a reset of sorts. They opted to eschew fancy session techniques, recording in Dave Grohl’s garage with only analog equipment. Butch Vig, who famously produced Nirvana’sNevermind, helmed the album. Guitarist Pat Smear was also back as an official membe...
Foo Fighters’ 2011 albumWasting Lightwas a reset of sorts. They opted to eschew fancy session techniques, recording in Dave Grohl’s garage with only analog equipment. Butch Vig, who famously produced Nirvana’sNevermind, helmed the album. Guitarist Pat Smear was also back as an official membe...
Foo Fighters album was a one-man project, Grohl knew he needed a band to play the songs with him live, so he recruited Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith from the recently-dissolved Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Pat Smear, who'd played a stint in Nirvana as their second guitarist....
despite the band spending over a million dollars making them.One by Onewas the first album with guitarist Chris Shiflett, so there was a new creative dynamic within the band. Foo Fighters were also experiencing turmoil after Taylor Hawkins suffered a heroin overdose in 2001 and Dave Grohl ruff...
” Beck left the Yardbirds in 1966, forging a successful career of his own. Since 1968, the guitarist has released more than a dozen studio albums, some as solo efforts, some under the guise of the Jeff Beck Group and one as Beck, Bogert & Appice. Beck was inducted into the Hall as...
As Foo history has it, afterKurt Cobain's death and in the aftermath ofNirvana,Dave Grohlwas in the midst of putting together some demos that would eventually become the base for the first Foo Fighters album. But while that was still in the works, he got an interesting invite. ...
Foo Fighters album was a one-man project, Grohl knew he needed a band to play the songs with him live, so he recruited Nate Mendel and William Goldsmith from the recently-dissolved Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Pat Smear, who'd played a stint in Nirvana as their second guitarist....
This is exactly what happened in New Orleans when Foo Fighters' lead singer and guitarist Dave Grohl wrote the song "In the Clear," and decided to record it while Cooper was in the room. "I was like, 'Wait a minute,'" Cooper says. "'You just wrote this song an hour ago. You're...