"Lights Out"" (2004) and ""Live at Reading"" (2009). Throughout his tenure with Scream and Nirvana, Grohl worked on crafting material of his own. Using the pseudonym Late!, Grohl released the album ""Pocketwatch"" (1992), on which he performed all instruments and vocals. This recording method was adopted three years later with ""Foo Fighters"" (1995), another album performed entirely by Grohl. After acquiring band members to help support the release, Foo Fighters quickly transformed into a group fronted by Grohl. The band has gone on to release a total of eight studio albums and three EPs to date, in addition to the"
"1990, Melvins' singer-guitarist Buzz Osborne encouraged Novoselic and Cobain to check out a punk band called Scream. The pair were impressed by their drummer, Dave Grohl. A few weeks later, Scream disbanded, and Grohl placed a call to Osborne for advice. Osborne gave him Novoselic's phone number, and Novoselic invited Grohl up to Seattle (from San Francisco, where Scream broke up). Grohl passed the audition and joined Nirvana. Grohl was Nirvana's fifth and final drummer. This was after the first few recordings of songs from their ""Bleach"" Album. Novoselic spent the following months with Nirvana traveling to various labels as"
"worked on the Septimus Orion project. Their first collaboration, a cd entitled CAGED, featured a new version of ""Sanctioned Violence,"" which was omitted on the 2004 release of ""Talking to the Dead"" because the original master tape of this the song could not be located. The band played numerous live shows, most notably opening for The Misfits, and Scream, whose most notable member is drummer Dave Grohl who later on became the drummer of Nirvana. Dave Grohl is currently a member of Foo Fighters. Eerie Von and J.R. were among the interviewees for a book titled ""This Music Leaves Stains:The"
"accompanying soundtrack to the Grohl-directed of the same name. On September 15, 2017, the band released their ninth studio album, ""Concrete and Gold"", which became their second to reach number one in the United States and was the band's first studio album to feature longtime session and touring keyboardist Rami Jaffee as a full member. Over the course of the band's career, four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. , the band has sold 12 million copies in the United States alone. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer"
"accolade was only applied to Cobain, Novoselic and Grohl. Final lineup Touring musicians Former members Session musicians Nirvana (band) Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. It was founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting and best-known being Dave Grohl, who joined in 1990. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the death of Cobain, their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock and roll culture. In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the"
"the Foo Fighters, he instead encouraged Grohl to move on with this solo project. Grohl soon recruited a full band, which included bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith of the recently disbanded Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist, and former Germs member, Pat Smear. Nine of the songs in the album were composed before or during Grohl's tenure with Nirvana, and existed in demos created by Grohl on his home 8-track tape recorder. The only compositions done after Cobain's death were ""This Is a Call"", ""I'll Stick Around"", ""X-Static"" and ""Wattershed"". The music mostly followed"
"he described as his favorite track on the album. Contrasting with the aggressive and rebellious themes of Nirvana, Grohl had positive and cheery tunes such as ""This Is a Call"", defined as ""a 'hello' and a 'thank you'"" to everyone that had played a key role in Grohl's life; the playful ""For All the Cows""; and ""Wattershed"", with a title referencing Mike Watt and lyrics that described Grohl's ""love of hardcore and old school punk rock"". The name ""Foo Fighters"" was taken from the description World War II aircraft pilots would use to describe various UFOs. This science fiction theme"
"on the ""Billboard"" 200. In 1995, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's newer band Foo Fighters helped to popularize post-grunge and define its parameters, becoming one of the most commercially successful rock bands in the United States, aided by considerable airplay on MTV. Like grunge bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, the post-grunge band Candlebox was from Seattle, but post-grunge was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands categorized as post-grunge such as York, Pennsylvania's Live, Atlanta, Georgia's Collective Soul, Australia's Silverchair and England's Bush, who all paved the way for"
"playing with each other."" Grohl once again mentioned a possible reunion in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio station in June 2017. The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures is a rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by John Paul Jones (former member of Led Zeppelin) on bass and keyboards, Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and formerly of Nirvana) on drums and backing vocals, and Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal and formerly"
"sessions to personal friends. After said tapes attracted record label interest, Grohl signed with Capitol Records, who released the results as the album ""Foo Fighters"" in 1995. The album peaked at number 23 on the ""Billboard"" 200, earning a platinum certification in the United States and having lead single, ""This Is a Call"" on the top 10 of the UK and Australia. After extensive touring with a full-fledged band—along with Grohl were Mendel, Smear and drummer William Goldsmith—the band went into recording follow-up album ""The Colour and the Shape"", released in 1997. The record charted higher, reaching number 10 on"
"The Call (band) The Call was an American rock band from Santa Cruz, California active from 1980 to 2000. The Call formed in Santa Cruz in 1980 by vocalist / guitarist Michael Been, drummer / percussionist Scott Musick, bassist Greg Freeman, and guitarist Tom Ferrier. Steve Huddleston played keyboards early on for the band. Been and Musick were originally from Oklahoma. Been was previously a member of Chicago band Aorta, and then, between 1969 and 1971, of Lovecraft, the successor band to the psychedelic rock group H.P. Lovecraft. The first working name of the group was ""Airtight"" before later choosing"
"gathered at the Parco Ippodromo park in Cesena, and performed ""Learn to Fly"" by the Foo Fighters to convince the band to perform there. The group, later known as the Rockin' 1000, was organized by Foo Fighters fans who played the guitar, bass and drums in unison to a conductor. Dave Grohl responded with a video where he announced in Italian that the band would visit Cesena and perform there. The show was scheduled for November 3, 2015 at the town's indoor sports arena and concert venue, Carisport, becoming the kickoff date for their European tour. Cesena's monuments include: The"
"Censorship"" and ""Fumble"", on which Grohl penned and sang vocals on the song ""Gods Look Down"". While playing in Scream, Grohl became a fan of Melvins and eventually befriended the band. During a 1990 tour stop on the West Coast, Melvins' Buzz Osborne took a couple of his friends, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, to see the band. A few months later, Scream unexpectedly disbanded mid-tour following the departure of its bassist Skeeter Thompson, who left to join The Four Horsemen. Grohl called Osborne for advice; Osborne informed him that Nirvana was looking for a drummer and gave Grohl the"
"Probot Probot was a heavy metal side project of ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters rhythm guitarist and lead-singer Dave Grohl. Described by Grohl as ""a death metal ""Supernatural,"""" the album mixes instrumentals recorded by Grohl himself with various metal singers whom the musician admired. The album was released in February 2004 by Southern Lord Records. It featured one single entitled ""Centuries of Sin""/""The Emerald Law"". After years of popularity in the alternative rock scene, Dave Grohl wanted to express the passion for heavy metal he bore since his youth. He mentioned the catalyst of the experience being during the first"
"Nirvana bootleg recordings The Nirvana bootleg recordings are a number of audio CD recordings of musical performances by the American rock band Nirvana, which were previously not officially released by the band, or under any other legal authority. The recordings consist of both live performances and outtakes from studio sessions unavailable as a legal release. Nirvana was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987, and featured drummer Dave Grohl for the majority of the band's career. They had previously gone through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad Channing, Dale Crover and Dan"
"starting with Skid Row and including Fecal Matter and Ted Ed Fred. The group finally settled on Nirvana, which Cobain said was chosen because ""I wanted a name that was kind of beautiful or nice and pretty instead of a mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans"". With Novoselic and Cobain having moved to Tacoma and Olympia, Washington, respectively, the two temporarily lost contact with Burckhard. The pair instead practiced with Dale Crover of the Melvins, and Nirvana recorded its first demos in January 1988. In early 1988, Crover moved to San Francisco but recommended Dave Foster to the"
"Wool (band) Wool was a rock band from Washington, D.C. (but based in Los Angeles), specialising in a rough hewn but melodic brand of punk-based hard rock from 1990-1996. Wool formed in the early '90s when brothers Peter and Franz Stahl (vocals/guitar and guitar/vocals, respectively) were forced to terminate their popular band Scream when bassist Skeeter Thompson went AWOL and drummer Dave Grohl joined Seattle grunge band Nirvana midway through a U.S. tour. The brothers then teamed up with former Government Issue and future Burning Airlines drummer Peter Moffett and Seattle native and ex-Concrete Blonde bassist Al Bloch (brother of"
"Nirvana (band) Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. It was founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting and best-known being Dave Grohl, who joined in 1990. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the death of Cobain, their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock and roll culture. In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album, ""Bleach"", for the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989."
"suggestion by Brian Bell from Weezer. He eventually became an engineer and learned how to produce. In 2001, shortly after Raskulinecz left Sound City, he was struggling as an independent engineer at a rehearsal studio and thought of returning to Knoxville with wife Amber. Then Dave Grohl, whom he met engineering the Foo Fighters track ""A320"" for """", invited Raskulinecz to help make the Foo Fighters' next album at Grohl's home studio in Virginia. Raskulinecz, who was set to make his producing debut making ""Last Call for Vitriol"" with fellow Knoxvillians Superdrag, instead accepted Grohl's proposal and the result was"
"Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul and beyond the US to Australia's Silverchair and Britain's Bush, who all cemented post-grunge as one of the most commercially viable subgenres of the late 1990s. Although male bands predominated post-grunge, female solo artist Alanis Morissette's 1995 album ""Jagged Little Pill"", labelled as post-grunge, also became a multi-platinum hit. Post-grunge morphed"
"the group. Gross and Stevens went on as a duo to great reviews for their music and comedy, and continue to perform to this day. The Dovells have performed 3 times, both for and with President Bill Clinton, a major highlight of their career. The Dovells The Dovells were an American music group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'. The members were Arnie Silver, Len Borisoff, Jerry Gross (alias Summers), Mike Freda, and Jim Mealey (alias Danny Brooks). Their first single ""No, No, No"" was a local hit for The Brooktones."
"Foo Fighters discography The discography of Foo Fighters, an American rock band formed in 1994 by Dave Grohl, consists of nine studio albums, four extended plays (EPs), six video albums, and 36 singles. The current Foo Fighters line-up consists of Grohl (vocals and guitar), Taylor Hawkins (drums), Rami Jaffee (keyboard), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (guitar), and Pat Smear (guitar). In October 1994, Grohl recorded an album's worth of songs in which he played all instruments in Seattle's Robert Lang Studios. He chose the name ""Foo Fighters"" for the project to hide his identity and passed cassettes copies of the"
"New Orleans, Louisiana at Siberia, with special guest vocalists Ray Ganucheau, Michael Divita and J.D. Buhl. Studio Live Compilation The Call (band) The Call was an American rock band from Santa Cruz, California active from 1980 to 2000. The Call formed in Santa Cruz in 1980 by vocalist / guitarist Michael Been, drummer / percussionist Scott Musick, bassist Greg Freeman, and guitarist Tom Ferrier. Steve Huddleston played keyboards early on for the band. Been and Musick were originally from Oklahoma. Been was previously a member of Chicago band Aorta, and then, between 1969 and 1971, of Lovecraft, the successor band"
"and then called it quits in late 1990. Pete and Franz moved to North Hollywood and started rock band Wool, while Grohl joined the Seattle grunge band Nirvana. In 1997, Franz Stahl joined Dave Grohl's newly formed group, the commercially successful Foo Fighters, for a two-year stint. During this time Pete Stahl worked as a road manager for both the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, while continuing to record albums with several bands, including the Earthlings? and Goatsnake. Skeeter Thompson remained in the D.C. area and continued to work in bands, including playing one gig at the"
"the single ""Sliver"" with Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters. Nirvana asked Dale Crover to fill in on drums for a seven-date American West Coast tour with Sonic Youth that August. In September 1990, Buzz Osborne of the Melvins introduced the band to Dave Grohl, who was looking for a new band following the sudden break-up of Washington, D.C., hardcore punks Scream. A few days after arriving in Seattle, Novoselic and Cobain auditioned Grohl, with Novoselic later stating, ""We knew in two minutes that he was the right drummer"". Grohl later told ""Q"" ""I remember being in the same room with them"
"prior to this. They went into the original Laundry Room Studio and recorded a demo with David Smith on drums, Dave Grohl on guitar, Bryant Mason on guitar, Brien Samuels on bass and Chris Page as vocals. This lineup lasted 6 months. One time - as rehearsal was wrapping up - Grohl asked if he could play drums, Smith grabbed the bass; Bryant and Chris joined in (Brian wasn't present.) The four guys were happy with the way things went and reformed as the four piece known as Mission Impossible. The new lineup was a vast improvement, and they began"
"(Nirvana, Foo Fighters) on drums where Grohl was struck on the head with a watermelon but continued to play. In 2003, their live performance was featured in the Melbourne episode of Lonely Planet Six Degrees. They have toured the world playing Europe (2004, 2007, 2009 and 2010), the United States (2004), Japan (2009, 2010), and various music and arts festivals including Big Day Out (1999–2004), Laneway Festival (2007), Livid (2003), What is Music? (2000–2003), This Is Not Art (2001, 2003), Liverpool Biennial (2004), Incubate (2007), and Fusion Festival (2010). Amongst others, they have supported Public Enemy, Future Islands, Peaches, Yamataka"
"after Grohl switched from guitarist to drummer. The band recorded demos under both names and released a split EP with Lünch Meat, originally issued as ""Thanks"" (1986), later retitled ""Getting Shit for Growing Up Different"". After some lineup changes, Mission Impossible became Dain Bramage and released ""I Scream Not Coming Down"" (1986) before breaking up when Grohl auditioned for Scream and became the band's drummer. As a member of Scream, Grohl released ""No More Censorship"" (1988), two live albums and the posthumous release, ""Fumble"" (1993), recorded shortly before the group's dissolution in 1990. Later that year, Grohl was put in"
"The Storm (American band) The Storm was an American supergroup rock band, formed in the Bay Area of San Francisco during the early 1990s. The band released their first single, a power ballad, ""I've Got a Lot to Learn About Love,"" for which they are perhaps most widely known. The song peaked at #6 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and at #26 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The band featured three of Journey's former members (two of whom were founding members) – Gregg Rolie (original lead vocalist and keyboardist of Journey) on keyboards and lead & backing vocals, Ross"
"the release of the . The ""Working Holiday!"" 7"" series followed. Simple Machines promoted cooperation with other indie labels all over the United States, and the ""sell it at a fair price"" ethic. The label also released a compilation of bands covering their ""favourite Beat Happening covers"". The profits were donated to a youth at risk home in Washington D.C. The most famous release of the label is ""Pocketwatch"", an album recorded by Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters frontman, who was at the time the drummer for Seattle-based grunge band Nirvana. Unwilling to use his own name on the record,"
"major labels and came to incorporate diverse influences from jangle pop, punk-pop, alternative metal or hard rock. The term post-grunge was meant to be pejorative, suggesting that they were simply musically derivative, or a cynical response to an ""authentic"" rock movement. From 1994, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul, who all cemented post-grunge as one of"
"contact with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic who were in search of a new drummer for their band Nirvana. After a successful tryout, Grohl joined the band and recorded ""Nevermind"" (1991) with them the following year. The album became a breakthrough achievement and to date has sold over 30 million copies Worldwide. ""In Utero"" (1993), their third and final studio album, was released just months prior to the death of Cobain. Since then, a multitude of posthumous releases featuring Grohl have been issued, including ""MTV Unplugged in New York"" (1994), ""From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah"" (1996), ""With the"
"be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world."" However, the demo tape circulated in the music industry, creating interest among record labels. Grohl formed a band to support the album. Initially, he talked to former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic about joining the group, but both decided against it. ""For Krist and I, it would have felt really natural and really great"", Grohl explained. ""But for everyone else, it would have been weird, and it would have left me in a really bad position. Then I really would"