Foo Fighters: Big dreams

musical beginnings

The story begins when Foo Fighters Dave Grohl, formerly of Scream, is hired to do the work of battery in the then unknown grunge group Nirvana. By chance, Grohl's first album in such training, Nevermind, was a real success in the "mainstream" through which the band he clinched the top spot on the charts worldwide. This situation led to media star Kurt Cobain, leader of the group, depression and drug abuse, which would end with his death in April 1994. During the time that he was a member of Nirvana, Dave wrote several songs on their own, some of which did not seem entirely consistent with the sound of the band. Later, in 1997, went on to say "I awed the songs of Kurt Cobain, and I was intimidated. So I thought it best that I keep the songs for me. "With these songs, which did not show his teammates, he decided on his own record a demo under the pseudonym Late!, Naming the album as Pocketwatch. The edition of this demo was done in just one hundred cassettes Grohl distributed only among his friends and without any intention of editing it commercially.

miércoles, 18 de julio de 2012

Big dreams

The Colour and the Shape (1997-1999)

After the huge success the band toured for several months appearing across the United States and some cities in Europe, being especially remarkable success achieved in England). After almost two years of extensive touring in 1997 began recording their second album, The Colour And The Shape, which contains hits like Monkey Wrench, My Hero, Everlong Hey Johnny Park. For recording the album, William Goldsmith (drums) was required only on Doll and Up in Arms, which led to his leaving the group after several discussions. Other sources cite clashes between the producer Gil Norton and Goldsmith which resulted in removal of the latter, leaving Grohl to record this position the rest of the songs. Critics proclaimed him as one of the best rock albums of the 90's.

No hay comentarios:

Publicar un comentario

first album

Foo Fighters (1995-1997) After the death of Kurt Cobain and the consequent disappearance of Nirvana, Grohl decided to pursue his musical career. He returned to the studio to record self-other few songs, this time under the name Foo Fighters. He recorded all the instruments on all songs, except for a guitar accompaniment courtesy of his friend Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs guitarist). As you did with the previous released this recording on cassette and distributed among his friends. However, this time received very good reviews and even one song, This Is a Call, started having angelina rotation on the radio. That is why we decided to formalize what so far was only a project, recruiting other musicians to form a band officially and create their own record label Roswell Records, a subsidiary of Capitol Records. Thus was launched the Foo Fighters, whose name comes from the way in which Allied pilots called the unidentified flying objects (UFO) during World War II. In 2009, Dave Grohl told VH1 Storytellers in the name of "Foo Fighters" was intended to make it in the minds of people, something sexy, like "Led Zeppelin" but that would not have put "Foo Fighters "the band if I had known that would be as successful.