Foo Fighters
Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year-plus run commencing with a double studio album hailed by the New York Times as "an unexpected magnum opus," a sold out arena tour built on that first disc's rock foundation followed by a toned down and intimate theater trek that highlighted the softer side showcased on that record's second half and capped off by a headlining gig at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 85,000, the question looms larger than any in the Foo Fighters' career to date: What do they do for an encore?
The History of Foo Fighters
Members
* Dave Grohl - vocals, guitar
* Taylor Hawkins - drums, percussion, vocals (1997-present)
* Nate Mendel - bass guitar (1995-present)
* Chris Shiflett - guitar, vocals (1999-present)
Former members
* William Goldsmith - drums, percussion (1995-1997)
* Pat Smear - guitar, vocals (1995-1997)
* Franz Stahl - guitar, vocals (1997-1999)
Touring members
* Pat Smear - guitar (2006-present)
* Drew Hester - percussion (2006-present)
* Rami Jaffee - keyboards, piano, accordion (2006-present)
* Jessy Greene - cello, violin, backing vocals (2007-present)
Former touring members
* Petra Haden - violin, backing vocals (2006-2007)
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band formed by singer/guitarist Dave Grohl in 1995.Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Biography". Allmusic.com. Retrieved on April 28, 2006. Grohl formed the group as a one-man project after the dissolution of his previous band Nirvana in 1994. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters in 1995, Grohl drafted Nate Mendel (bass), William Goldsmith (drums), and Pat Smear (guitar) to complete the group. Goldsmith and Smear left after the recording of the group's second album The Colour and the Shape (1997). They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl left prior to the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999).
Chris Shiflett joined as the band's second guitarist after the completion of There is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its fourth album One by One in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and harder-rocking material. Foo Fighters released its sixth album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace in 2007. Over the course of the band's career, three of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album, and all six have been nominated for Grammys.
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace by Foo Fighters
Released on September 25, 2007
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
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Track listing
1. "The Pretender" - 4:29
2. "Let it Die" - 4:05
3. "Erase/Replace" - 4:13
4. "Long Road to Ruin" - 3:44
5. "Come Alive" - 5:10
6. "Stranger Things Have Happened" - 5:21
7. "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" - 3:41
8. "Summer's End" - 4:37
9. "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" - 2:32
10. "Statues" - 3:47
11. "But, Honestly" - 4:35
12. "Home" - 4:52
Release Date: 09/25/2007
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is the sixth studio album by Foo Fighters, released on September 25, 2007. The album is produced by Gil Norton who previously worked with the group on their second album, The Color and the Shape. The only hard rock hit on Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is The Pretender.
The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week. The album also went platinum in its first week in both Australia"Fooies Album Goes Platinum!!". Sony BMG. September 26, 2007. and New Zealand. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,668 copies in its first week,Katie Hasty, "Rascal Flatts Races To No. 1 In Debut-Heavy Week", Billboard.com, October 3, 2007. and has since been certified gold. As of May 22 it has sold 733,000 copies in US.
The album was the band's fourth to have a song reach the top of the Modern Rock Tracks, with "The Pretender, as well as "Long Road to Ruin". With 18 weeks at the summit, "The Pretender" also set the record for longest stretch at #1 on Billboard's Alternative / Modern Rock chart.Josh Groban Ties Elvis Presley With "Long Road to Ruin" the album has a total of 25 weeks atop the chart.
The album won the 2008 Grammy for Best Rock Album and "The Pretender" won for Best Hard Rock Performance. 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. The band had previously won Best Rock Album Grammys for There Is Nothing Left to Lose and One by One.
"The Pretender" music video by Foo Fighters
"The Pretender" is one of Foo Fighters' most successful songs
The video was directed by Sam Brown. It is presented in letterbox format and heavily employs pans, zooms, and tracking shots. It consists of the band performing the song in an airplane hangar with many strip lights on the ceiling. Behind the band is a large red screen, which is thick and solid. The band is then faced by what appears to be a riot police officer, who stands behind a black line on the floor, around 30 feet or so from the band. He has the number 21 on his bullet-proof vest.
As the song progresses, he is joined by more riot police officers, and a panning shot shows us that to his left, the numbers on the officers' vests descend all the way to "01". Assuming that there are the same number of officers on the man's right side, it can be gathered that there are 41 officers overall.
As the quieter bridge begins, the video slows down as the officers charge at the band. Just as the band repeats the song's louder chorus, the screen suddenly erupts and water (which appears to look like a red liquid because of a mixture of red and white lighting) explodes from the screen in jets that overwhelm the police but affect the band to a lesser extent. At the end of the video, Dave Grohl is shown slamming his guitar on the floor as he falls to his knees.
In Your Honor is the fifth album by the Foo Fighters
Released on June 14, 2005
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Disc one
1. "In Your Honor" - 3:50
2. "No Way Back" - 3:17
3. "Best of You" - 4:16
4. "DOA" - 4:12
5. "Hell" - 1:57
6. "The Last Song" - 3:19
7. "Free Me" - 4:39
8. "Resolve" - 4:49
9. "The Deepest Blues Are Black" - 3:58
10. "End Over End" - 5:56
Disc two
1. "Still" - 5:13
2. "What If I Do?" - 5:02
3. "Miracle" - 3:29
4. "Another Round" - 4:25
5. "Friend of a Friend" (Dave Grohl) - 3:13
6. "Over and Out" - 5:16
7. "On the Mend" - 4:31
8. "Virginia Moon" - 3:49
9. "Cold Day in the Sun" - 3:20
10. "Razor" (Dave Grohl) - 4:53
Release Date: 06/14/2005
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Foo Fighters - Let It Die music video
"Let It Die" is the fourth single from Foo Fighters' Grammy-award winning album, Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
Foo Fighters - Let It Die
The new single from the album "Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace" Copyright, 2008, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendal, Taylor Hawkins, and Chris Shifflet as "Foo Fighters"
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Foo Fighters - The One
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