This was a nod to producer Gil Norton, who is British.Ģ1. Even though Foo Fighters are an American band, the word ‘Colour’ in the album title is always spelled with the British spelling. Foo Fighters second album The Colour And The Shape, was a Grammy nominee for Best Rock Album in 1998. Petty offered Dave the drummer’s seat on a permanent basis after he sat in with the band on Saturday Night Live.Ģ0. Dave Grohl could have joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Later in 2012 Warren, Ohio unveiled a pair of gigantic 902 lb. A roadway in downtown Warren named ‘David Grohl Alley’ was dedicated to him with murals by local artists. In August 2009, Grohl was given the key to the city of his hometown Warren, Ohio. He was fined $400 and had his Australian driving permit revoked for three months.ġ8.
In 2000, while on tour with Foo Fighters in Australia, Grohl was arrested by Australian police while driving a scooter under the influence following a concert on the Gold Coast in Queensland. While the Foo Fighters were on break, Hawkins played in a three-piece cover band, Chevy Metal.ġ7. He later contributed drums to a cover of Neil Young’s I’ve Been Waiting For You on 2002’s Heathen.ġ6. Dave Grohl became friendly with the late David Bowie on the 1997 festival circuit and later played his 50th birthday party. Taylor Hawkins overdosed on heroin in 2001, which put him in a coma for two weeksġ5. Dave Grohl once made a cameo appearance with his wife Jennifer on The X-Files in a 1996 episode called Pusher.ġ4. He appeared in Morissette’s videos for ‘You Oughta Know’, ‘All I Really Want’ and ‘You Learn’.ġ3. Before joining the band, Taylor Hawkins was Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer. Stahl, who played with Grohl in Scream, flew from a tour he was performing in Japan after getting the invitation to join the band.ġ2.
During the Septemconcert at Radio City Music Hall, right before that year’s 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, Smear announced his departure and gave his instrument for the new guitarist, Franz Stahl, to finish the set. He was joined by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Gumballs’ Don Fleming, The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli and Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner.ġ1. Dave Grohl played drums on the soundtrack for the 1994 Beatles film, Backbeat. The song’s music video won Best Short Form Video award at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2000.ġ0. ‘Learn to Fly’ was the band’s first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, as well as their second-highest charting song on the Hot 100, peaking at number 19. The first pressing of Foos’ 1999 album There Is Nothing Left To Lose came with a rub-on FF tattoo like the one on Dave’s neck.ĩ. Chart Attack voted Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins as the sexiest musician at the 2000 Summersault Festival. Guitarist Pat Smear was a founding member of punk band the Germs and the touring guitarist for Nirvana from 1993 to 1994.ħ. Foo Fighters made its live public debut on February 23, 1995, at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California.Ħ. When he was 13 years old Dave Grohl went to see American punk rock Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago – his first ever concert.ĥ. The group took its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as foo fighters.Ĥ. While in high school, Grohl played in several local bands, including a stint as guitarist in Freak Baby and played drums in a group named Mission Impossible.ģ. The band was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the suicide of Kurt Cobain.Ģ.
Meanwhile, Foos are working on what looks like their 10th studio album, and they've been teasing fans with clips and pics of what to expect.1. WATCH: Foo Fighters drum up excitement for new album with clip of new music She’s a kid!"Īfter calling her the "best travel buddy" he could ask for, Grohl added: "It's really cool, but I have to remind myself that, 'Wait, she's 13. "She’s doing Leeds with us, but then she goes back to school. It’s sad, but she’s going to have miss Reading as she’s got to go back to eighth grade.
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "My daughter is singing with us every night. The Foo Fighters frontman previously revealed his daughter Violet would be joining him on stage Bramham Park, before heading back to Los Angeles to start school. WATCH: Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl 'shotguns' beer with fan dressed as Santa in Las Vegas
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