Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999-2002)

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.

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There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999-2002)

In 1998, Foo Fighters traveled to Grohl's home state of Virginia to write music for its 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 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 the band to reunite with Sunny Day Real Estate, only to reverse his decision the next day. The remaining trio of Grohl, Mendel, and Hawkins spent the next several months recording the band's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, in Grohl's Virginia home studio that he bought and built. The album spawned several singles, including "Learn to Fly", the band's first single to reach the US Billboard Hot 100.Before the release of the album, Capitol president Gary Gersh was forced out of the label. Given Grohl's history with Gersh, Foo Fighters' contract had included a "key man clause" that allowed them to leave the label upon Gersh's departure. They subsequently left Capitol and signed to RCA, who later acquired the rights to the band's Capitol albums.^[12]

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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.