Grohl’s personal life was also in turmoil, with his first marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood ending. It turned out to be a trying time with Goldsmith ultimately walking out, later to be replaced by Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer Taylor Hawkins. In mid-1996, Foo Fighters headed into the studio to start work on their second album and their first as a real-life band. The quartet hit the road in spring of 1995 for their first tour.īuoyed by the success of the lead single This Is A Call, the Foo Fighters’ eponymous debut album came out early that summer on Capitol Records via Grohl’s own Roswell Records imprint and spawned three more singles: Big Me, I’ll Stick Around and For All The Cows.Ī huge success, the band spent the rest of the year on tour promoting it, including a trip overseas to make their first UK appearance at Reading Festival. Taking on the role of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist as well as chief songwriter, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both from emo pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Germs founding member and Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear. He later turned down an offer to join them permanently, instead deciding to transform his Foo Fighters solo project – which had immediately generated label interest – into a full-blown band. Grohl did return to drums again, recording the soundtrack for the film Backbeat that chronicles the early days of The Beatles and also playing with other bands including an incendiary performance with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers on Saturday Night Live. Mainly, he wanted the demo to sound like it came from a group instead of just one guy. Grohl credited the project to “Foo Fighters”, a term coined by the US Air Force during World War II to explain strange phenomena in the sky, because he’d been reading lots of books on UFOs. He even recorded a demo at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios, playing all the instruments himself and working with producer Barrett Jones (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Melvins). Unsure of what to do next, he started making music on his own. He rose to fame as the seventh and longest-running drummer of grunge idols Nirvana, having performed with the band from 1990 until frontman Kurt Cobain’s death by suicide in 1994.Īfterward Grohl sank into a deep depression. I really enjoyed the performance and left with happy and calm feelings and a smile on my face.As a musician, singer-songwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker, Ohio-born Dave Grohl is a man of many talents. Another thing I noticed was that she had a female drummer and that is something that you hardly if ever see in the music industry in general unfortunately, but it was a nice and welcome change. Once she entered the stage I could see that she was wearing a very simple dress and that her orchestra was well dressed, but not in a way that was over the top.Īs she began to sing "Rumble" her orchestra moved close to her and she began to sing and dance around her microphone as her female background singer flanked her side. While it seemed like there were a lot of people there to see her perform, I was easily able to find a seat near the front row that would allow me to comfortably enjoy her show. It was very easy for me to get a ticket and even easier for me to get a parking space. In this day and age I would have thought it would be difficult for something like this to catch on given the changes that R&B has gone through over the years, but judging by how many people came to the venue to see her perform this is far from the case. Even though I was too young to hear the old style R&B/Soul singers of the 70s, Kelis has helped fill that void by providing a very unique yet old style feel to her music. The term booming voice would be one way to describe a performance by Kelis, another would be awesome.
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