140-413: David Eric Grohl ( / ˈ ɡ r oʊ l / ; born January 14, 1969) is an American musician. He founded the rock band Foo Fighters , of which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. From 1990 to 1994, he was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana . In 1986, at age 17, Grohl joined the punk rock band Scream , replacing drummer Kent Stax . After Scream broke up in 1990, Grohl became
280-571: A Pocketwatch -era song that was best known as a Nirvana B side. In November 2006, the band released their first live CD, Skin and Bones , featuring fifteen performances captured over a three-night stint in Los Angeles. For the follow-up to In Your Honor , the band recruited The Colour and the Shape producer Gil Norton. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released on September 25, 2007. The album's first single, " The Pretender ",
420-470: A Kurt Cobain T-shirt. And to me that meant: "You can't outrun this thing, so it's time … to push through and find some sort of continuation." So I flew home and I immediately started recording those Foo Fighter songs. In October 1994, he scheduled studio time at Robert Lang Studios and quickly recorded a fifteen-track demo. With the exception of a single guitar part on "X-Static" played by Greg Dulli of
560-414: A World War II term for unidentified flying objects . He hoped the name would lead listeners to assume the music was made by several people. He said later: "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world." The demo tape circulated in the industry, creating interest among record labels. Grohl formed
700-419: A shock rock band that was seeking a drummer. At age 17, Grohl auditioned with local Washington, D.C., favorites Scream to fill the vacancy left by the departure of drummer Kent Stax . In order to be considered for the position, Grohl lied about his age, claiming he was older. To Grohl's surprise, the band asked him to join, so he dropped out of high school in his junior year. He has been quoted as saying, "I
840-753: A supergroup , Them Crooked Vultures . The trio performed their first show together on August 9, 2009, at Metro in Chicago. The band played their first UK gig on August 26, 2009, with a surprise appearance at Brixton Academy in London, supporting the Arctic Monkeys . The band released their debut album Them Crooked Vultures on November 16, 2009, in the UK and November 17, 2009, in the US. On October 23, 2010, Grohl performed with Tenacious D at BlizzCon . He appeared as
980-553: A $ 188,000 grant would be given to Fairfax County Public Schools to expand Arabic and Chinese programs, as part of the National Security Language Initiative . At the time, Annandale students taking Arabic were among "the less than 1 per cent of high school students studying languages deemed critical." In October 2011, AHS was again noted by the White House for its cultural diversity, hosting
1120-460: A 2022 interview with The Pit , Grohl noted: I was still in Seattle, and I just felt, "I gotta get out." I [had to] go somewhere where I could just disappear and sort through my life, and try to figure out what to do next... I was winding around these country roads – so beautiful – and I was finding peace… and I come upon this hitchhiker , and I was considering picking him up, and I saw that he had
1260-459: A Marigold" and released this version as a B-side on the " Heart-Shaped Box " single, titled simply "Marigold". Grohl also contributed the main guitar riff for "Scentless Apprentice". Cobain said in a late 1993 interview with MTV that he initially thought the riff was "kind of boneheaded", but was gratified at how the song developed, a process captured in part in a demo on the Nirvana box set With
1400-524: A North American tour to promote Sonic Highways , beginning with a special Fourth of July event in Washington, D.C. , that would commemorate the band's 20th anniversary. The all-day event was to be held at Washington's RFK Stadium featuring performances by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , Heart , LL Cool J , Gary Clark Jr. , and Buddy Guy . Dave Grohl's injury initially led to speculation that
1540-506: A Scream performance. Following the breakup of Scream, Grohl called Osborne for advice. Osborne informed him that Nirvana was seeking a drummer, and gave Grohl the phone numbers of Cobain and Novoselic, who invited Grohl to Seattle to audition. Grohl passed the audition and soon joined the band. In October 2010, Grohl told Q , "I remember being in the same room with them and thinking, 'What? That' s Nirvana? Are you kidding?' Because on their record cover they looked like psycho lumberjacks... I
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#17327801886881680-713: A Toronto stop on their 1987 tour, Grohl played drums for Iggy Pop at a CD release party held at famed club the El Mocambo . In 1990, Scream unexpectedly disbanded midtour following the departure of bassist Skeeter Thompson . While playing in Scream, Grohl became a fan of the Melvins and eventually befriended them. During a 1990 tour stop on the West Coast , Melvins guitarist Buzz Osborne took his friends Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic , both then with Nirvana , to see
1820-477: A band to support the album. He spoke to Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic , about joining the group, but he decided against it. Grohl said it would have felt "really natural" for them to work together, but would have been "weird" for the others and place more pressure on Grohl. Instead, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith , both of the recently disbanded Seattle group Sunny Day Real Estate . Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear joined as
1960-593: A benefit concert in Hollywood for the AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives , with a speech by the founder, Christine Maggiore , and distribution of free copies of her self-published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? . The Foo Fighters website featured a section devoted to Alive & Well. Sandra Thurman , the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy , said this
2100-546: A cover of Pink Floyd 's " Have a Cigar ", a song which Foo Fighters previously recorded as a B-side. The friendship between the two bands resulted in Grohl and Taylor Hawkins being asked to induct Queen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Grohl and Hawkins joined May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor to perform " Tie Your Mother Down ", with Grohl standing in on vocals for Freddie Mercury . May later contributed guitar work for
2240-605: A driving rainstorm. In September 2011 before a show in Kansas City , the band performed a parody song in front of a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church . It mocked the church's opposition to homosexuality and was performed in the same faux-trucker garb that was seen in the band's Hot Buns promotional video. It was announced on September 28, 2011, that the Foo Fighters would be performing during
2380-623: A freshman, and was elected class vice president. In that capacity, he managed to play pieces of songs by punk bands like Circle Jerks and Bad Brains over the school intercom before his morning announcements. His mother decided he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because his cannabis use was lowering his grades. He stayed there for two years, beginning with a repeat of his first year. After his second year, he transferred yet again to Annandale High School . While in high school, he played in several local bands, including
2520-498: A full member, after having appeared frequently with the band since 2005. Sonic Highways (2014) was released as the soundtrack to the television miniseries directed by Grohl. Concrete and Gold (2017) was the second Foo Fighters album to reach number one in the United States and the first to feature Jaffee, their longtime session and touring keyboardist, as a full member. Their tenth album, Medicine at Midnight (2021),
2660-417: A full-fledged member during the recording of One by One . Grohl's life of non-stop touring and travel continued with Foo Fighters' popularity. During his infrequent pauses he lived in Seattle and Los Angeles before returning to Alexandria, Virginia . It was there that he turned his basement into a recording studio where the 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded. It was recorded following
2800-505: A hiatus from touring (which would last until January 2011). These sessions likely lasted from late 2008 – early 2009. While the members of the Foo Fighters had initially planned for their new album (composed of songs from this recording session) to have come out in 2009 with almost no touring support, they ultimately decided to shelve most of the songs from these sessions. Three of these songs were later released — "Wheels" and "Word Forward" (on their 2009 compilation album, Greatest Hits ); and
2940-487: A montage of Letterman highlights while the Foo Fighters played " Everlong ", which Letterman said had significant meaning for him after his open-heart surgery in 2000, introducing them as "my favorite band, playing my favorite song." The band postponed their international tour to make the appearance; the tour resumed on May 24, with a performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich, England. On June 12, Grohl fell from
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#17327801886883080-480: A newly recorded version of "Rope" (which ended up making the final cut of Wasting Light ). In August 2010, the band began recording their seventh studio album with producer Butch Vig , who had previously produced the two new tracks for the band's Greatest Hits album. The album was recorded in Dave Grohl's garage using only analog equipment. The album won five Grammys and was nominated for six. The recording
3220-520: A one-week respite, " No One Knows " by Queens of the Stone Age took the number one spot. Between October 26, 2002, and March 1, 2003, Grohl was in the number one spot on the Modern rock charts for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups. Grohl and Foo Fighters released their fifth album In Your Honor on June 14, 2005. Prior to starting work on the album, the band spent almost
3360-514: A performance in Arizona coinciding with one of the presidential debates . Having spent a year and a half touring behind One by One , Grohl did not want to rush into recording another Foo Fighters record. Initially Grohl intended to write acoustic material by himself but eventually the project involved the entire band. To record its fifth album, the band shifted to Los Angeles and built a recording studio, dubbed Studio 606 West. Grohl insisted that
3500-463: A previously unreleased acoustic version of "Everlong" and two new tracks " Wheels " and "Word Forward" which were produced by Nevermind 's producer Butch Vig . Grohl said he felt the Greatest Hits was too early and "can look like an obituary". He did not feel they had written their best hits yet. Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light , was released on April 12, 2011. It became
3640-605: A score of 1.391, in The Washington Post 's 2010 Challenge Index, an annual ranking of public high schools in the Washington Metropolitan Area . Each school's score, and rank, was based on a simple formula: "divide the number of Advanced Placement , International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2009 by the number of graduating seniors." 172 schools were ranked in 2010. In 2008 Annandale placed #105 (out of 166) in
3780-561: A small but growing Afghani population in Fairfax County schools including Annandale High School. The A-Blast is Annandale High School's student-run, student-sponsored newspaper. It achieved several awards and recognitions from the late 1990s to 2009, during which the paper won a number of National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Awards , placed among the Best-in-Show at a variety of NSPA national conventions, and won
3920-485: A song called "Color Pictures of a Marigold", and the two subsequently worked on it together. Grohl later recorded the song for the Pocketwatch cassette. Grohl said in a 2014 episode of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways that Cobain reacted by kissing him upon first hearing a demo of " Alone + Easy Target " that Grohl recently recorded. During the sessions for In Utero , Nirvana decided to re-record "Color Pictures of
4060-448: A stint as guitarist in a band called Freak Baby, and taught himself to play drums. When Freak Baby fired its bass player and reshuffled its lineup, Grohl switched to drums. The reconstituted band renamed itself Mission Impossible. Grohl said he did not take formal drum lessons; instead, he taught himself how to play the drums by listening to Rush and punk rock . Rush drummer Neil Peart was an early influence: "When I got 2112 when I
4200-454: A visit by First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady of South Korea Kim Yoon-ok , both of whom praised the school's widespread ethnic make-up in speeches to the student body. During her address, Obama said of AHS, “This is the perfect place for you to find out who you are and what you want to become, and that’s really what education is all about.” The visits were accompanied by a ceremony featuring Grammy -nominated violinist Jennifer Koh . At
4340-436: A year relocating Grohl's home-based Virginia studio to a brand new facility, dubbed Studio 606 , located in a warehouse near Los Angeles. Featuring collaborations with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Norah Jones , the album was a departure from previous efforts, and included one rock and one acoustic disc. Foo Fighters' sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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4480-401: Is of German, Slovak (on his father's side), Irish and English (on his mother's side) descent. His father, James, was a journalist and the special assistant to U.S. Senator Robert Taft Jr. James was described as "a talented political observer who possessed the ability to call every major election with uncanny accuracy". When he was a child, Grohl's family moved to Springfield, Virginia . When he
4620-683: The Billboard 200 . After the Concrete and Gold Tour , Grohl announced that the band would be taking a break. The tenth Foo Fighters studio album, Medicine at Midnight , was released on February 5, 2021, following delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200. The Medicine at Midnight tour was canceled following the death of Hawkins on March 25, 2022. The eleventh Foo Fighters studio album But Here We Are
4760-515: The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards . They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, their first year of eligibility. In 1990, Dave Grohl joined the grunge band Nirvana as the drummer. During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs, but was too intimidated to share them with the band. He was "in awe" of the songs written by Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain . Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers, and released an album of demos, Pocketwatch , under
4900-598: The Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown Award (in 2009). The A-Blast has also been a national fore-runner among high school papers for publishing online content, being one of the first fourteen newspapers in the country to be awarded the NSPA's Pacemaker Award for an Online Edition. The A-Blast, in 2009, had adopted a new multimedia program which trains journalism students to create projects pertaining to
5040-490: The I Scream Not Coming Down LP. Many of Grohl's early influences were at the 9:30 Club , a music venue in Washington, D.C. In April 2010, he said, "I went to the 9:30 Club hundreds of times. I was always so excited to get there, and I was always bummed when it closed. I spent my teenage years at the club and saw some shows that changed my life." As a teenager in Washington, D.C., Grohl briefly contemplated joining Gwar ,
5180-538: The Ring Spiel Tour , opening for Watt and also playing, alongside Eddie Vedder, in Watt's supporting band. In January 1997, Grohl played a few songs with David Bowie for Bowie's 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden . In the early 2000s, Grohl spent time in his basement studio writing and recording several songs for Probot , a heavy metal music project, recruiting his favorite metal vocalists from
5320-402: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and joined them to perform the 1976 classic, " Tie Your Mother Down ", with Hawkins playing drums alongside Roger Taylor . The guitarist Brian May added a guitar track to the Foo Fighters' second cover of Pink Floyd 's " Have a Cigar ", which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Mission: Impossible 2 . In 2002, May contributed guitar to "Tired of You" and
5460-742: The Sonic Highways World Tour , followed with performances in South Africa in December and South America in January 2015. It continued to Australia and New Zealand in February and March. On May 20, 2015, the Foo Fighters were the final musical act to perform on Late Show with David Letterman , continuing their long association with the host as he wrapped up his 33-year career in late-night television. The show ended with
5600-483: The 1980s, including Lemmy of Motörhead , Conrad Lant from Venom , King Diamond , Scott Weinrich , Snake of Voivod and Max Cavalera of Sepultura . Probot released an album in 2004. In 2003, Grohl stepped behind the kit to perform on Killing Jokesecond self titled album, Killing Joke (2003 album) . This surprised some fans of Nirvana, which had been accused of plagiarizing the opening riff of " Come as You Are " from Killing Joke's 1984 song "Eighties". However,
5740-457: The 2005 Reading and Leeds Festivals . On June 17, 2006, the Foo Fighters performed their largest non-festival headlining concert to date at London's Hyde Park . Motörhead's Lemmy joined the band on stage to sing Shake Your Blood from Dave Grohl's Probot album. As a surprise performance, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen appeared to play part of We Will Rock You as a lead in to Tie Your Mother Down. In further support of In Your Honor ,
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5880-516: The 2010 Kennedy Center Honors along with No Doubt , Norah Jones , Steven Tyler , James Taylor , and Mavis Staples . He sang a duet version of " Maybe I'm Amazed " with Norah Jones on December 5, 2010. Grohl played drums on the tracks "Run with the Wolves" and "Stand Up" on the Prodigy 's 2009 album Invaders Must Die . In July 2009, Grohl along with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones formed
6020-517: The 2014 VooDoo Music and Arts Festival in New Orleans on November 2, 2014, in a two and a half hour performance that included an appearance from New Orleans native Trombone Shorty, who played "This Is a Call" with the band. On August 8, the band released a short clip of their latest work, titled 8. On August 11, the band announced that the new album would be titled Sonic Highways and released on November 10, 2014. An international tour, dubbed
6160-614: The Actual Events . He also drummed on the song "Bad Boyfriend" on Garbage's 2005 album Bleed Like Me . Most recently, he recorded all the drums on Juliette and the Licks 's 2006 album Four on the Floor and the song "For Us" from Pete Yorn 's 2006 album Nightcrawler . Beyond drumming, Grohl contributed guitar to a cover of Neil Young 's "I've Been Waiting For You" on David Bowie 's 2002 album Heathen . In June 2008, Grohl
6300-561: The Afghan Whigs , Grohl performed all of the instruments himself. Grohl wondered if his future might be in drumming for other bands. In November, Grohl took a brief turn with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , including a performance on Saturday Night Live . He declined an invitation to become Petty's permanent drummer. Grohl was also rumored as a possible replacement for Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese and performed with
6440-567: The Annandale community which would change the diverse demographics of the school. Enrollment at AHS during the 2009–2010 school year was 2,257 students. Enrollment at the school reached over 2,000 students for the first time during the 1995–1996 school year. After that year, enrollment grew each year for a decade before reaching 2,568 students during the 2003–2004 school year. Since then, enrollment has experienced non-streaking growth and decline, though has remained at over 2,000 students. During
6580-642: The Banshees ." At 13, Grohl and his sister spent the summer at their cousin Tracey's house in Evanston, Illinois . Tracey introduced them to punk rock by taking the pair to shows by a variety of punk bands. His first concert was Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago in 1982. Grohl recalled, "From then on we were totally punk. We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out." In Virginia, he attended Thomas Jefferson High School as
6720-534: The Broken Leg Tour. The band continued to use the name at later North American performances. Prior to their August 21 concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri , the band rickrolled protesting members of the Westboro Baptist Church , as they had also done in 2011. On November 23, 2015, a surprise release following a month-long countdown clock on the Foo Fighters' website revealed
6860-604: The Challenge Index, with a score of 1.542, and in 2007 it was ranked #107 (out of 190), with a score of 1.425. In early 2010, the Annandale Border Control Force was established by local parent and community groups. Their goal was to realign the school borders by sending residents of Annandale to adjacent county schools such as Falls Church High School and sending Springfield residents to Lake Braddock Secondary School in an effort to address
7000-692: The Cows ", and " Big Me " were released as subsequent singles. The band spent the following months on tour, including their first appearance at the Reading Festival in England in August. After touring through the spring of 1996, the Foo Fighters entered Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, Washington , with producer Gil Norton to record its second album. While Grohl once again wrote all the songs,
7140-655: The DeLuna Festival in Pensacola Beach, Florida . On September 29, the band performed at the Global Citizens' Festival before embarking on a break. Despite initially announcing a break after supporting Wasting Light , Grohl stated in January 2013 that the band had started writing material for an eighth studio album. On February 20, 2013, at the Brit Awards , Grohl said he was resuming work on
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#17327801886887280-509: The FCPS building of the current TJHSST. Over a two-year period, from 1985 to 1987, the Jefferson students were merged into Annandale. The former TJHS students, now Annandale seniors, were appropriately given the one-time special distinction to use a dual name, TJHS/AHS, for school year 1987–88. No students from Jefferson or TJHSST graduated in 1988. Annandale High School was ranked #122, with
7420-426: The Foo Fighters in 1997, citing exhaustion and burnout, and was replaced by Grohl's former Scream bandmate Franz Stahl . Stahl toured with the Foo Fighters for the next few months and appeared on two tracks recorded for movie soundtracks, a re-recording of " Walking After You ", also released as a single, for The X-Files and " A320 " for Godzilla . A B-side from the "My Hero" single, "Dear Lover", appeared in
7560-526: The Foo Fighters released a rockumentary, directed by Academy Award-winner James Moll . The film, titled Back and Forth , chronicles the band's career. Then current and past members, and producer Butch Vig, tell the story of the band through interviews. After debuting on March 15, 2011, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas , it was released on DVD three months later. On May 21, 2011, the Foo Fighters headlined
7700-475: The Foo Fighters starred as themselves in the comedy horror film Studio 666 . In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked Grohl the 27th-best drummer of all time. Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Nirvana in 2014 and as a member of Foo Fighters in 2021. Grohl was born in Warren, Ohio , on January 14, 1969, the son of teacher Virginia Jean (née Hanlon) and newswriter James Harper Grohl. He
7840-607: The Foo Fighters started their world tour in support of the album. The band performed shows throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, including headlining the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore on August 9. At the European MTV Music Awards in 2007, Pat Smear confirmed his return to the band in a touring capacity. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
7980-476: The Foo Fighters' song " Learn to Fly ", indicating (in broken Italian), "... I promise [Foo Fighters will] see you soon". On November 3, Foo Fighters performed in Cesena, where Grohl invited some "Rockin' 1000" members onto the stage to perform with the band. On September 15, 2017, Foo Fighters released their ninth studio album Concrete and Gold , which became the band's second album to debut at number one on
8120-633: The High School Writing Seminar and the High School Journalism Workshop. The A-Blast is printed on The Washington Post press in Springfield, VA. The A-Blast uses WordPress as its technology platform and is hosted by School Newspapers Online. In 50 years, Annandale has won six football state championships (1965, 1967, 1972, 1978, 1993, and 1994) and numerous district titles as a member of both
8260-599: The Lights Out . Cobain said that he was excited at the possibility of having Novoselic and Grohl contribute more to the band's songwriting. Prior to Nirvana's 1994 European tour, the band scheduled session time at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle to work on demos. For most of the three-day session, Cobain was absent, so Novoselic and Grohl worked on demos of their own songs. They completed several of Grohl's songs, including future Foo Fighters songs "Exhausted", " Big Me ", "February Stars", and "Butterflies". Cobain arrived on
8400-870: The Potomac District (pre-redistricting) and the Patriot District (post-redistricting). They are now in the National District. After an undefeated season in 1978, Annandale ended the year ranked #1 in the nation by the National Sports Service. Annandale won Patriot District titles in 2005, 2006,2007, and 2009 (shared with West Springfield High School), but the Atoms fell to their first round opponents each year. Opening its doors in 1954, Annandale High School had 1,000 students, ranging in grades eight-eleven. During this time,
8540-457: The Shape . It produced several singles, including "Everlong", " My Hero ", and " Monkey Wrench ", and cemented Foo Fighters as a staple of rock radio. The following September, Smear left the band, citing a need to settle down after a lifetime of touring. Smear was replaced by Grohl's former Scream bandmate Franz Stahl . Stahl departed before the band recorded its third album and was replaced by touring guitarist Chris Shiflett , who later became
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#17327801886888680-502: The Stone Age. Hawkins and Grohl talked about resuming work on One by One and after a very satisfying performance the following day, they agreed to stay together. The group re-recorded nearly all of the album in a ten-day stretch at Grohl's home studio in Alexandria, Virginia , the following month. The original version of One by One , referred to by the band as Million Dollar Demos, has never been released in its entirety although seven tracks were leaked online in 2012 and 2015. The album
8820-474: The United States. The album features eight songs, each inspired by a different U.S. city's musical history and culture researched by Grohl himself. On June 12, 2015, while playing a show in Gothenburg, Sweden, Grohl fell off the stage, breaking his leg. He left temporarily and returned with a cast to finish the concert. Afterward, the band canceled the remainder of its European tour. To avoid having to cancel
8960-680: The album and that it was slated to be released a month after the premiere of the TV show. In June 2014, the band agreed to play a show in Richmond, Virginia , that was entirely crowd-funded by fans on the website Tilt.com . The show took place on September 17 before 1,500 fans. The band played 23 songs over the course of two and a half hours. The Foo Fighters announced their tour would include performances in Cape Town on December 10 and Johannesburg on December 13. The band played three performances under
9100-418: The album be divided into two discs – one full of rock songs, and the other featuring all acoustic tracks. In Your Honor was released in June 2005. The album's singles included " Best of You ", " DOA ", " Resolve ", and " No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun ". During September and October 2005, the band toured with Weezer on what was billed as the Foozer Tour. The Foo Fighters played a headline performance at
9240-444: The album not reaching their expectations amid much infighting, Grohl spent some time helping Queens of the Stone Age complete their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf . Once that album was finished and touring had started for both the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, the band was on the verge of breaking up entirely. Grohl reunited with Hawkins, Shiflett, and Mendel to play the Coachella Festival , alternating days with Queens of
9380-401: The album the following day. On September 6, 2013, Shiflett posted a photo to his Instagram account that indicated 13 songs were being recorded and later described it as "pretty fucking fun". Rami Jaffee has recorded parts for two songs, one of which was "In the Clear". Butch Vig , who worked with the band on Wasting Light , confirmed via Twitter in late August 2013 that he was producing
9520-442: The album with Grohl on drums. After the sessions were complete, Goldsmith announced his departure from the band, and was replaced by Former Alanis Morissette drummer Taylor Hawkins . Grohl later expressed regret, and said, "There were a lot of reasons it didn't work out, but there was also a part of me that was like, you know, I don't know if I'm finished playing the drums yet". The album was released in May 1997 as The Colour and
9660-432: The album's release. Goldsmith quit during the recording of their second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997), and most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl. Smear departed soon afterward. Smear and Goldsmith were replaced by Stahl and Hawkins. Stahl was fired before the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). The band briefly continued as a trio until Shiflett joined after
9800-463: The album. The band confirmed that it would end its hiatus by playing two shows in Mexico City on December 11 and 13. On October 31, a video appeared on the official Foo Fighters YouTube channel showing a motorcyclist, later revealed to be Erik Estrada , delivering each of the band members an invitation to play in Mexico. On January 16, 2014, a picture was posted to the Foo Fighters' Facebook page with several master tapes labeled LP 8. On May 15, it
9940-404: The album. With the album seemingly complete, Grohl headed home to Virginia with a copy of the rough mixes and found himself unhappy with the results. He wrote and recorded a few new songs, " Walking After You " and the hit single " Everlong ", alone at a studio in Washington, D.C. Inspired by the session, Grohl opted to move the band, without Goldsmith's knowledge, to Los Angeles to re-record most of
10080-809: The alias The Holy Shits in September 2014; the first at the Concorde 2 club in Brighton, England , where Grohl invited lead singer Jay Apperley of the tribute band UK Foo Fighters on stage to sing, followed by the House of Vans and the Islington Assembly Hall. On September 14, 2014, the band performed at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games , their first official show in England since closing Reading Festival in 2012. They closed out
10220-418: The band for a song or two at three shows during Pearl Jam's March 1995 Australian tour. However, by then, Pearl Jam had already settled on ex- Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons , and Grohl had other solo plans. After his demo received interest from major labels, Grohl was signed by Gary Gersh , Nirvana's A&R rep-turned-president of Capitol Records . Grohl did not want the effort to be considered
10360-493: The band in the video for the song " No One Knows ".) After a brief tour through North America, Britain and Japan with the band and feeling rejuvenated by the effort, Grohl recalled the other band members to completely re-record their album at his studio in Virginia. The effort became their fourth album, One by One . While initially pleased with the results, in another 2005 Rolling Stone interview, Grohl admitted to not liking
10500-494: The band organized a short acoustic tour for the summer of 2006. Members who had performed with them in late 2005 appeared, such as Pat Smear , Petra Haden on violin and backing vocals, Drew Hester on percussion, and Rami Jaffee of The Wallflowers on keyboard and piano. While much of the setlist focused on In Your Honor' s acoustic half, the band also used the opportunity to play lesser-known songs, such as Ain't It The Life, Floaty, and See You. The band also performed Marigold,
10640-471: The band would drop out of the event but they later confirmed they would perform; however, the injury did prevent them from headlining the 2015 Glastonbury Festival . The band performed for 48,000 people with Grohl in a custom-built moving throne which he claimed to have designed himself while on painkillers. Beginning with the show on July 4, the Foo Fighters re-branded the North American tour as
10780-633: The band's North American tour as the Broken Leg Tour . In 2016, Grohl lent his throne to Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses after Rose broke his foot. He lent it again in 2021 to Darin Wall, of the Seattle metal band Greyhawk, after Wall was shot in the leg. On July 31, 2015, Grohl posted a personal reply to Fabio Zaffagnini, Marco Sabiu , and the 1,000 participants of the "Rockin' 1000" project in Cesena , Italy, thanking them for their combined performance of
10920-615: The band's first album to reach No. 1 in the United States. Despite rumors of a hiatus, Grohl confirmed in January 2013 that the band had completed writing material for their follow-up to Wasting Light . Grohl and members of Foo Fighters sometimes perform as a cover band "Chevy Metal", as they did in May 2015 at "Conejo Valley Days", a county fair in Thousand Oaks, California. On November 10, 2014, Foo Fighters released their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways , which reached number two in
11060-533: The band's first to reach the US Billboard Hot 100 . Other singles included " Stacked Actors ", " Generator ", " Next Year ", and " Breakout ". Before the release of the album, Capitol Records president Gary Gersh was forced out of the label. Given Grohl's history with Gersh, the Foo Fighters' contract had included a "key man clause" that allowed them to leave the label upon Gersh's departure. They left Capitol and signed with RCA , who later acquired
11200-453: The band's upcoming North American tour, Grohl designed a large "elevated throne" which would allow him to perform on stage with a broken leg. The throne was unveiled at a concert in Washington, D.C., on July 4, where Grohl used the stage's video screens to show the crowd video of him falling from the stage in Gothenburg as well as X-rays of his broken leg. Beginning with the show on July 4, Foo Fighters began selling new tour merchandise rebranding
11340-419: The band. In need of a replacement for Goldsmith, Grohl contacted Alanis Morissette 's touring drummer Taylor Hawkins for a recommendation. Grohl was surprised when Hawkins volunteered himself. Hawkins made his debut with the group in time for the release of its second album, The Colour and the Shape , in May 1997. The album included the singles " Monkey Wrench ", " Everlong " and " My Hero ". Smear left
11480-459: The band. Grohl, who created the Foo Fighters to release solo material after Nirvana broke up in 1994, recorded what would become the band's eponymous debut album essentially by himself in six days. After the songs drew label interest, he recruited band members Mendel and Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate , and Smear, who had played with Nirvana on tour. The band made their first public performance in February 1995, five months before
11620-664: The closing ceremony of Blizzard Entertainment 's annual video game convention, BlizzCon. On August 27, 2012, the Foo Fighters ended their European tour with a headline performance at Reading and Leeds Festival . On September 5, the band performed a show at the Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina , as a benefit for Rock the Vote . The show, which occurred at the same time as the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte,
11760-488: The completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose , solidifying the core of their lineup. The Foo Fighters released their fourth album, One by One , in 2002. It was followed with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo Fighters released their sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace , in 2007. For the Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light (2011), produced by Butch Vig , Smear returned as
11900-483: The controversy failed to create a lasting rift between the bands. Foo Fighters covered Killing Joke's "Requiem" during the late 1990s, and were joined by Killing Joke singer Jaz Coleman for a performance of the song at a show in New Zealand in 2003. Also in 2003, at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards , Grohl performed in an ad hoc supergroup with Bruce Springsteen , Elvis Costello , and Steven Van Zandt in tribute to
12040-464: The departure from Capitol and their former president Gary Gersh. Grohl described the recording experience as "intoxicating at times" because the band members were left completely to their own devices. He added, "One of the advantages of finishing the record before we had a new label was that it was purely our creation. It was complete and not open to outside tampering." In 2000, the band recruited Queen guitarist Brian May to add some guitar flourish to
12180-714: The devil in the song " Beelzeboss ", and performed on its soundtrack. He also performed drums for their 2012 album Rize of the Fenix . In 2002, Grohl helped Chan Marshall of Cat Power on the album You Are Free and played with Queens of the Stone Age on their album Songs for the Deaf . Grohl also toured with the band in support of the album, delaying work on the Foo Fighters' album One by One . In 2004, Grohl drummed on six tracks for Nine Inch Nails ' 2005 album With Teeth and played percussion on one more, later returning to play drums on 'The Idea of You' from their 2016 EP Not
12320-419: The drummer for Nirvana. He first appeared on the band's second album, Nevermind (1991). After the 1994 suicide of Kurt Cobain , Nirvana disbanded and Grohl formed Foo Fighters as a one-man project. After he released the album Foo Fighters in 1995, he assembled a full band to tour and record under the Foo Fighters name. They have since released 11 studio albums. Grohl is also the drummer and co-founder of
12460-663: The drummer for the entire concert, and a year later he returned with Foo Fighters and played another set there, this time as guitarist and vocalist. Foo Fighters The Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Founded as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl , the lineup now consists of Grohl (lead vocals, guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear (guitars), Rami Jaffee (keyboards), and Josh Freese (drums). Drummers William Goldsmith and Taylor Hawkins , along with guitarist Franz Stahl , are former members of
12600-467: The exception of a guitar part on "X-Static", played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs , Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal. He completed an album's worth of material in five days and handed out cassette copies of the sessions to his friends for feedback. Grohl hoped to stay anonymous and release the recordings in a limited run under the name Foo Fighters, taken from foo fighter ,
12740-488: The first year that Hispanic students represented a plurality of Annandale students, and the first year in the school's history that any racial group other than White students represented a plurality within the student body. In fact, White students represent the only group not to see consistent growth in percentage student body representation over the last three years. In the aftermath of the Fall of Kabul (2021) , there has been
12880-483: The free EP Saint Cecilia , including a single of the same name . Alongside its release, Grohl announced that the band would be going on an indefinite hiatus. In response to growing rumors of a breakup, the Foo Fighters released a mockumentary video in March 2016 portraying Grohl leaving the band to pursue electronic music and Nick Lachey (formerly of 98 Degrees ) becoming the group's new singer, ending with: "For
13020-420: The horror film Scream 2 . The tour for The Colour and the Shape album in 1998 included performances at Glastonbury Festival (on the main stage) and the Reading Festival . In 1998, the Foo Fighters traveled to Grohl's home state of Virginia, to write their third album. However, Grohl and Stahl were unable to co-operate as songwriters; Grohl told Kerrang! in 1999, "in those few weeks it just seemed like
13160-407: The initial months with Nirvana traveling to various labels as the band shopped for a deal, eventually signing with DGC Records . In the spring of 1991, the band entered Sound City Studios in Los Angeles to record Nevermind , which is depicted in Grohl's 2013 documentary Sound City . Nevermind (1991) exceeded all expectations and became a worldwide commercial success. At the same time, Grohl
13300-467: The injury, the band canceled its remaining European tour dates. In July, one thousand Italian fans held the Rockin' 1000 gathering in Cesena , Italy, performing "Learn to Fly" and asking the Foo Fighters to come play in the town. The performance video went viral and impressed Grohl, resulting in the band appearing in Cesena on November 3. The Foo Fighters planned to follow their international tour with
13440-471: The investigation of the rape and murder of Gits singer Mia Zapata . Grohl refused to do interviews or tour large venues to promote the album. The Foo Fighters undertook their first major tour in the spring of 1995, opening for Mike Watt . The band's first single, " This Is a Call ", was released in June 1995, and their debut album, Foo Fighters , was released the next month. " I'll Stick Around ", " For All
13580-753: The middle day of the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama . On June 4, 2011, they played a surprise set at the 2011 KROQ Weenie Roast . They also headlined two sold-out shows at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on July 2 and 3, joined on stage by artists such as Alice Cooper , Seasick Steve , and John Paul Jones . They headlined the final night at the 20th anniversary of Lollapalooza in Chicago 's Grant Park on August 7, 2011, performing part of their set in
13720-614: The millionth time, we're not breaking up. And nobody's going fucking solo!" Annandale High School Annandale High School is a public high school in Annandale, Virginia , United States. It is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system. The school's student body has been recognized for its high level of racial and cultural diversity since at least the 1980s. Students derive from over 90 countries and speak more than 50 languages. Annandale
13860-765: The music cassette Pocketwatch under the pseudonym Late! on the now-defunct indie label Simple Machines . In 1993, Grohl was recruited to help recreate the music of the Beatles ' early years for the movie Backbeat . In 1993–94, he played drums in the Backbeat Band, an alternative rock supergroup that also included Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs , indie producer Don Fleming , Mike Mills of R.E.M. , Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth , and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum . In 1994, Grohl played drums on two tracks for Mike Watt 's Ball-Hog or Tugboat? . In early 1995, Grohl and Foo Fighters played their first US tour:
14000-537: The news around Annandale High School, and is currently in its fourth production year. The A-Blas t is a The Washington Post Young Journalists Development Program Paper. The paper's writers and editors receive publishing and content-related guidance from Post professional staff, and periodically visit The Washington Post headquarters in Washington, D.C., for collaborative workshops. A-Blast editors regularly participate in Post programs for high school students, including
14140-575: The other band members and placed more pressure on Grohl. Grohl's demo was remixed by Rob Schnapf and Tom Rothrock and released in July 1995 as Foo Fighters' self-titled debut album . During a break between tours, the band entered the studio and recorded a cover of Gary Numan 's " Down in the Park ". In February 1996, Grohl and his then-wife Jennifer Youngblood made a brief cameo appearance on The X-Files third-season episode " Pusher ". After touring for
14280-475: The outtake "Knucklehead". The Foo Fighters and Queen have performed together on several occasions since, including VH1 Rock Honors and the Foo Fighters' headlining concert in Hyde Park . Near the end of 2001, the Foo Fighters reconvened to record their fourth album . After spending four months in a Los Angeles studio, the album "just didn't sound right" and the band had no confidence it would sell well. With
14420-412: The overcrowding at Annandale High School. The issue has been long and contentious with some residents and students loyal to Annandale. Several options for preventing the realigning and reassigning of students of certain housing developments to different middle and high schools were suggested to the county school board A major concern to the Annandale parent and community groups included losing sections of
14560-696: The pseudonym Late! in 1992. Nirvana disbanded after the death of Cobain in 1994. Grohl received offers to work with various artists. Press rumors indicated he might join Pearl Jam , and he almost accepted a position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Grohl later said: "I was supposed to just join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life. I thought that I would rather do what no one expected me to do." He instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record 15 of his own songs. With
14700-493: The recently deceased singer/guitarist Joe Strummer . Grohl lent his drumming skills to other artists during the early 2000s. In 2000, he played drums and sang on a track, "Goodbye Lament", for Tony Iommi 's album Iommi . In 2001, Grohl performed on Tenacious D 's debut album, and appeared in the video for lead single " Tribute " as a demon . He later appeared in the duo's 2006 movie Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny as
14840-406: The record: "Four of the songs were good, and the other seven I never played again in my life. We rushed into it, and we rushed out of it." On November 23, 2002, Grohl achieved a historical milestone by replacing himself on the top of the Billboard modern rock chart, when " You Know You're Right " by Nirvana was replaced by " All My Life " by Foo Fighters. When "All My Life" ended its run, after
14980-487: The recording in two weeks, and immediately joined Foo Fighters to work on their follow-up. During the initial sessions for Foo Fighters' second album, tension emerged between Grohl and drummer Goldsmith. Goldsmith said, "Dave had me do 96 takes of one song, and I had to do 13 hours' worth of takes on another one...It just seemed that everything I did wasn't good enough for him, or anyone else". Goldsmith also believed that Capitol and producer Gil Norton wanted Grohl to drum on
15120-405: The rest of the band collaborated on the arrangements. With the sessions nearly complete, Grohl took the rough mixes to Los Angeles, intending to finish his vocal and guitar parts. While there, Grohl realized that he was not happy with the drumming and replaced most of Goldsmith's drum tracks with his own. Though Grohl hoped that Goldsmith would still play on the tour, Goldsmith felt betrayed and left
15260-512: The rights to the band's Capitol albums. After recording There Is Nothing Left to Lose was completed, the band auditioned a number of potential guitarists and settled on Chris Shiflett , who performed with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and California punk band No Use for a Name . Shiflett initially joined as a touring guitarist but achieved full-time status prior to the recording of the group's fourth album. In January 2000, Mendel led
15400-543: The rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures , and has recorded and toured with Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious D . He has organized side projects Late! , which released the album Pocketwatch , and Probot . Grohl began directing Foo Fighters music videos in 1997. He released his debut documentary, Sound City , in 2013, then the 2014 documentary miniseries Sonic Highways and the 2021 documentary film What Drives Us . In 2021, Grohl released an autobiography, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music . In 2022, he and
15540-632: The second guitarist. Grohl licensed the album to Capitol Records , releasing it on his new label, Roswell Records . The Foo Fighters made their live public debut on February 23, 1995, at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California , followed by performances at Satyricon in Portland on March 3 and the Velvet Elvis in Seattle on March 4. The show on March 3 had been part of a benefit gig for
15680-431: The self-titled album for more than a year, Grohl returned home and began work on the soundtrack to the 1997 movie Touch . Grohl performed all of the instruments and vocals himself, save for vocals from Veruca Salt singer Louise Post on the title track, keyboards by Barrett Jones (who also co-produced the record) on one track, and vocals and guitar by X's John Doe on "This Loving Thing (Lynn's Song)". Grohl completed
15820-492: The song "Tired of You" on the ensuing Foo Fighters album, as well as on an unreleased Foo Fighters song called "Knucklehead". Near the end of 2001, Foo Fighters returned to the studio to work on their fourth album. After four months in the studio, with the sessions finished, Grohl accepted an invitation to join Queens of the Stone Age and helped them to record their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf . (Grohl can be seen drumming for
15960-467: The stage before a final encore of "Best of You", an ecstatic Grohl shouted "Welcome to the greatest fucking day of my whole entire life!". Throughout the tour for Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace , the Foo Fighters had been writing and practicing new songs at sound checks. After the Foo Fighters had completed this tour in September 2008, they recorded 13 new songs in Studio 606, shortly after announcing
16100-461: The stage in Gothenburg, Sweden , during the group's second song, breaking his leg. The band continued playing while Grohl received medical attention, who then returned to the stage to finish the last two hours of the band's set from a chair while a medic tended to his leg. After the concert, Grohl was flown to London for surgery, requiring six metal pins to stabilize the fracture. As a result of
16240-409: The start of a solo career, so he recruited other band members: former Germs and touring Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear and two members of the recently disbanded Sunny Day Real Estate : William Goldsmith (drums) and Nate Mendel (bass). He and Novoselic decided against Novoselic joining; Grohl said it would have felt "really natural" for them to work together again, but would have been uncomfortable for
16380-592: The students voted to call themselves "Atoms" after the influence from president Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech called "Atoms for Peace." In the late 1980s, Annandale High School was involved in the creation of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), ranked as the best high school in the country in 2010 by U.S. News & World Report . TJHSST is one of 18 Virginia Governor's Schools . The former Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson, TJHS), originally occupied
16520-610: The third day, and the band recorded a demo of " You Know You're Right ". It was Nirvana's final studio recording before the suicide of Kurt Cobain on April 8, 1994. Two decades later, on April 10, 2014, Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. Following Cobain's suicide in April 1994, Grohl went into isolation and retreated for several months, unsure what to do next. He ended up leaving Seattle entirely, winding up in County Kerry , Ireland. In
16660-533: The three of us were moving in one direction and Franz wasn't." Grohl was distraught over the decision to fire Stahl as the two had been friends since childhood. Shortly after that, Mendel called Grohl to say he was quitting to reunite with Sunny Day Real Estate, only to reverse his decision the next day. The remaining trio of Grohl, Mendel, and Hawkins spent several months recording the band's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose , in Grohl's home studio. The album spawned several singles, including " Learn to Fly ",
16800-534: The time, Madame Kim was traveling on a state visit to the US with her husband, Korean President Lee Myung-bak , who were invited as guests of honor to a White House dinner that week after Congress approved the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement . During the 2009–2010 school year, Korean and other Asian-Americans represented 22 percent of the AHS student body. In 2011–2012, Annandale's student body
16940-741: Was Paul McCartney 's special guest for a concert at the Anfield football stadium in Liverpool , in one of the central events of the English city's year as European Capital of Culture . Grohl joined McCartney's band singing backup vocals and playing guitar on " Band on the Run " and drums on " Back in the U.S.S.R. " and " I Saw Her Standing There ". Grohl also performed with McCartney at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards , again playing drums on " I Saw Her Standing There ". Grohl also helped pay tribute to McCartney at
17080-443: Was "extraordinarily irresponsible behavior... There is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community." All links and references to Alive & Well were removed from the Foo Fighters website by March 2003. Around 2001, the Foo Fighters established a relationship with the English rock band Queen , as they (particularly Grohl and Hawkins ) were fans. That March, Grohl and Hawkins inducted them into
17220-458: Was 17 and extremely anxious to see the world, so I did it." Over the next four years, Grohl toured extensively with Scream, recording a live album (their show of May 4, 1990, in Alzey, Germany, being released by Tobby Holzinger as Your Choice Live Series Vol.10 ) and two studio albums, No More Censorship and Fumble , on which Grohl penned and sang vocals on the song "Gods Look Down". During
17360-442: Was 32.28% Hispanic , 24.97% Asian , 23.97% White , 16.37% Black and 2.41% other. During the 2011–2012 school year, 51.89% of the student body received free or reduced price lunch. 74.79% of the school was proficient in English. No single racial group formed the majority. AHS is considered one of the most diverse schools among FCPS, itself one of the most diverse school districts in the country. The 2009–2010 school year marked
17500-425: Was analog to tape and used no computers, not even to mix or master. Vig said in an interview with MTV that the album was entirely analog until post-mastering. Pat Smear was present in many photos posted by Grohl on Twitter, and a press release in December confirmed Smear played on every track on the album and was considered an official member of the band once again. The first single from Wasting Light , " Rope ",
17640-557: Was announced only two weeks prior. Tickets to the 2000-person capacity venue sold out in under 60 seconds, setting a record for the site. The band set another personal record during the show itself, being the longest that the band had played to date at just under 3.5 hours with a setlist of 36 songs. On September 21, the band headlined the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta, Georgia . The following evening, they headlined
17780-499: Was announced that the album would be released in November and that the Foo Fighters would commemorate the album and their 20th anniversary with an HBO TV series directed by Grohl titled Sonic Highways . Eight songs were written and recorded in eight studios in eight different American cities with video capturing the history and feel of each town. On July 30, Butch Vig revealed that the Foo Fighters had finished recording and mixing
17920-534: Was chosen in 1998 as the site and focus of the Race Initiative Advisory Board's round-table discussions on race and education. The event was hosted by members of the board, including Thomas Kean and William Winter , and chaired by historian John Hope Franklin . The discussions were held as part of President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative . In 2006, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings visited Annandale to announce that
18060-458: Was compiling and recording his own material, which he released on a cassette called Pocketwatch in 1992 on indie label Simple Machines. Rather than using his own name, Grohl released the cassette under the pseudonym "Late!" In the later years with Nirvana, Grohl's songwriting contributions to the band increased. In Grohl's initial months in Olympia, Washington , Cobain overheard him working on
18200-597: Was eight years old, it fucking changed the direction of my life. I heard the drums. It made me want to become a drummer." During his developing years as a drummer, Grohl cited John Bonham as his greatest influence, and eventually had Bonham's three-rings symbol tattooed on his right shoulder. Mission Impossible rebranded themselves Fast before breaking up, after which Grohl joined the hardcore punk band Dain Bramage in December 1985. In March 1987, Dain Bramage ended when Grohl quit without warning to join Scream, having produced
18340-484: Was issued to radio in early August. In mid-to-late 2007 "The Pretender" topped Billboard 's Modern Rock chart for a record 19 weeks. The second single, " Long Road to Ruin ", was released in December 2007, supported by a music video directed by longtime collaborator Jesse Peretz (formerly of the Lemonheads ). Other singles included " Let It Die " and " Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) ". In October 2007,
18480-469: Was like, 'What, that little dude and that big motherfucker? You're kidding me'." When Grohl joined Nirvana, the band had already recorded several demos for the follow-up to their debut album Bleach , and had spent time recording with producer Butch Vig in Wisconsin . Initially, the plan was to release the album on Sub Pop , but Nirvana received a great deal of interest based on the demos. Grohl spent
18620-608: Was nominated for five Grammy Awards in 2008. The Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance (for "The Pretender"). The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Pretender" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song. On June 7, 2008, the band played Wembley Stadium , London, and was joined by Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin to play " Rock and Roll " (with Grohl on drums and Hawkins on vocals) and " Ramble On " (sung by Grohl, drums by Hawkins). As Page and Jones left
18760-418: Was released in October 2002 under the title One by One . Singles from the album included " All My Life ", " Times Like These ", " Low ", and " Have It All ". The tour for the album included a headline performance at the 2002 Reading and Leeds Festivals . For most of its history, the band chose to stay away from the political realm. However, in 2004, upon learning that George W. Bush's presidential campaign
18900-410: Was released on June 2, 2023. The album is dedicated to Hawkins and Grohl's mother, Virginia, both of whom died in 2022. Grohl frequently participates in music projects apart from his main bands. In 1992, he played drums on Buzz Osborne 's Kiss -styled solo-EP King Buzzo ; he was credited as "Dale Nixon", a pseudonym that Greg Ginn adopted to play bass on Black Flag's My War . He also released
19040-458: Was released on September 25, 2007. It was recorded during a three-month period between March 2007 and June 2007, and its release was preceded by the first single " The Pretender " on September 17. The second single, " Long Road to Ruin ", was released on December 3, 2007, followed by the third single, " Let It Die ", on June 24, 2008. On November 3, 2009, Foo Fighters released their first Greatest Hits collection, consisting of 16 tracks including
19180-501: Was released to radio in February 2011. On April 16, 2011, the Foo Fighters released an album of covers, Medium Rare , as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day . The promotion for the album was highly praised for its originality. Wasting Light debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band's first album to do so. Other singles for the album included " Walk ", " Arlandria ", " These Days ", and " Bridge Burning ". Alongside Wasting Light ' s release,
19320-446: Was seven, his parents divorced, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. At the age of 12, he began learning to play guitar. He grew tired of lessons and instead taught himself, eventually playing in bands with friends. He said, "I was going in the direction of faster, louder, darker while my sister, Lisa, three years older, was getting seriously into new wave territory. We'd meet in the middle sometimes with Bowie and Siouxsie and
19460-477: Was the last before Hawkins' death in March 2022. Freese was announced as the band's new drummer the following year. Their eleventh album, But Here We Are , was released in June 2023. The Foo Fighters have won 15 Grammy Awards , including Best Rock Album five times, making them among the most successful rock acts in Grammy history. In 2021, the band was announced as recipients of the first "Global Icon" award at
19600-416: Was using "Times Like These" at rallies, Grohl decided to lend his public support to John Kerry 's campaign, saying, "There's no way of stopping the president playing your songs, so I went out and played it for John Kerry's people instead, where I thought the message would kinda make more sense." Grohl attended several Kerry rallies and occasionally performed solo acoustic sets. The entire band joined Grohl for
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