Dave Grohl & Foo Fighters Biography [1994-2022] Albums and Story of the Everlong band

Foo Fighters Everlong

Foo Fighters Times Like These

• Grohl kicks-off his music career playing drums 🥁 in several bands (Freak Baby, Mission Impossible, Dain Bramage…). At age 17 he joined Scream, a hardcore music band (he lied about his age, saying he was 20, to be accepted).

Being part of Nirvana, Grohl wrote several songs of his own under the pseudonym “Late!”, because those songs didn’t fit with the band’s sound

• Grohl released a demo named ‘Pocketwatch’, editing only 100 cassette copies that were distributed among his relatives and friends.

1994. After Kurt Cobain death, Dave Grohl considered whether to return to being a drummer for another band (Pearl Jam and Tom Petty were candidates) or to undertake a solo career.

• As we all know, he went the second path creating Foo Fighters 😃

1997. Dave Grohl writes again all the songs for the second and most acclaimed album of Foo Fighters, “The Colour and the Shape”.

• When they finished recording, Dave wasn’t convinced by the sound of the drums, so he re-recorded them himself. Of course, William Goldsmith, who was the drummer, didn’t like it and left the band.
• That opened the door to Taylor Hawkins who joined Foo Fighters.
• The Colour and the Shape, includes the legendary track Everlong, as well as other hits such as Monkey Wrench, Hey or My Hero

2005. This year represents the first double album for Foo Fighters, “In Your Honor”:

• On the one hand, it had the usual rock sound of the band. On the other hand they recorded softer and acoustic versions of the same songs.

2007. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Foo Fighters’ 6th record, was introduced by ‘The Pretender’, a song that became extremely popular before the album was released.

• The track Let It Die, was inspired by the relationship between Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
• The band will get two awards in the 50th Grammy Ceremony, Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Rock Album.

2008. On June 6 and 7 Foo Fighters sold out their Wembley (UK) concerts, which would later be released on DVD entitled “Foo Fighters Live at Wembley Stadium”

• Furthermore, the band was accompanied by special guests like John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin.
• Here is Foo Fighters Wembley full concert. There’s a very cool part when Taylor Hawkins lets Dave Grohl play drums and he starts singing.

2014. Sonic Highways was Foo Fighters 8th album.

• It was published with 10 different covers that referred to the cities where the CD was recorded. You can see the image with all of them together here. I know, there are 9 😚! the 10th cover is the complete set.

2015. Foo Fighters shared a free EP with their fans called “Saint Cecilia”, a record dedicated to the victims of Paris attacks.

The album includes a long letter by Dave Grohl. Part of it reads:

To remind us that music is life, and that hope and healing go hand in hand with song. That much can never be taken away

We’ve recovered the album for you, with the cover, the dedication and its original 5 tracks. Enjoy it!

2017. The ninth album of the band, “Concrete and Gold”, came with surprises:

• You’ll find Paul McCartney playing drums on ‘Sunday Rain‘ and Justin Timberlake on ‘Make it Right‘ backing vocals.
• This album also marks the time when Rami Jaffee is credited as a member of Foo Fighters. Same happened to drummer Taylor Hawkins some years before 🙋‍♂️

2021. In 2020, Dave Grohl announced their tenth CD to commemorate Foo Fighters 25th anniversary, but its release was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Finally, the long-awaited album “Medicine at Midnight” was released in 2021, completing (for now) Foo Fighters discography.

In Your Honor, a band formed on Daved Grohl’s request

Argentina has one of the most incredible audiences and this is corroborated by thousands of bands that have played there. Foo Fighters played a concert in Argentina years ago where people were jumping and screaming so much that they couldn’t even play.

Dave Grohl didn’t know what to do, so he urged the audience to create a band and play themselves. A group of Argentine musicians did, under the name ‘In Your Honor‘. This video documentary tells the magnificent story

2021. The band shared on their YouTube channel a new acoustic version of their flagship track Everlong where Dave Grohl explained its meaning.

Foo Fighters Everlong meaning and story behind

Dave Grohl wrote it in the winter of ’96, while he was in the studio recording ‘The Colour and The Shape‘. In the time between takes, he started playing a chord that sounded like Sonic Youth (a band he loves). At the time he was hurt because he had just broken up a very intense relationship. The chords he was playing on the guitar stirred up that emotion even more and he started writing the lyrics. He quickly went to record it in a demo and the magic happened, everything made sense, the melody and the lyrics fit perfectly. That’s how Everlong was born.

2021 was a year full of news for Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters, not only because of their album ‘Medicine at Midnight‘ but because:

• They released an album of Bee Gees covers, under the pseudonym Dee Gees. It was called ‘Hail Station‘.
• Dave Grohl wrote his first autobiography ‘The Storyteller‘. He explained:

It’s a collection of memories of a life lived loud. From my early days growing up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, to hitting the road at the age of 18, and all the music that followed.

• Dave Grohl recorded the documentary ‘What Drives Us‘. A love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old van with their friends and left it all behind for the simple reward of playing music. It features ACDC, Metallica, The Beatles, and many others.

In 2022 Foo Fighters filmed their first movie called STUDIO 666,

• In the film the band move into a mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.  Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band 👻