Thursday April 15, 2021 “Waiting on a War” Foo Fighters
Maybe you are asking yourself what exactly is a Foo Fighter. Stay tuned for an answer.
The band, Foo Fighters was formed by the drummer in Nirvana, Dave Grohl who, while he was in high school, was a guitarist and singer in a variety of Washington DC punk bands. He was able to convince his mother that he should drop out of high school and pursue his passion for music.
He headed to Seattle and there he joined Nirvana in 1990 and whenever that band was not touring or recording he was writing songs that he planned to ultimately record himself. After Kurt Cobain’s death Grohl took a break, took a breath and then recorded the backlog of those songs and became a foo fighter.
Actually on the first Foo Fighters album/CD, Grohl not only wrote all of the songs, but played all the instruments and did all of the singing so the band should really have been Foo Fighter.
The Foo Fighters have won twelve Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album four times. The band has also won an American Music Award, four Brit Awards, and two MTV Video Music Awards, have recorded ten albums/CDs and sold over twenty million albums/CDs in the U.S
Grohl, along with the members of Nirvana is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and has also directed a very worthwhile documentary about the legendary Los Angeles recording studio Sound City where Nirvana recorded their groundbreaking album/CD Nevermind.
The film appeared early in 2013 to positive reviews and it was accompanied by a soundtrack called Sound City: Reel to Real, which featured Grohl-directed jams with a variety of Sound City veterans, plus Paul McCartney.
Oh yeah, what is a foo fighter? The term "foo fighter" was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. There’s a Star Wars connection also but I’m sticking with the UFO one.
Stay safe and well...and let’s skip the wars, there has to be more to this than that.