Foo Fighters Live At The Savoy
Seattle, Washington gave birth to the rock genre of Grunge Rock in the early 1990s. One of the bands that brought Grunge to the main stream limelight was the band Nirvana. This may be the first time that most of the world was introduced to their drummer, Dave Grohl, but he had already traveled the world playing drums as a member of Scream, a Washington D.C. based hardcore punk band.
Born on January 14, 1969 in Warren, Ohio, his family relocated to Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C when Dave was 4 years old. He began playing guitar at the age of twelve and in his teenage years was a member of the punk band Freak Baby. During his stint with Freak Baby, Grohl taught himself how to play the ‘drums by banging on various items in his bedroom’ (Wikipedia, Grohl). At the age of sixteen, he auditioned for the role of drummer for the Washington D.C. hardcore punk band Scream. He landed the position and spent the next two years recording four albums and touring with the band.
When Scream disbanded in 1986, Grohl relocated to Seattle and auditioned as drummer for Nirvana. While earning success as a member of Nirvana’s rhythm section, Grohl wrote and recorded demo tapes under the name Pocketwatch where he not only played every instrument, but was the lead singer as well.
Following Kurt Cobain’s alleged suicide in 1994, Grohl filled in as drummer with Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, recorded and toured with Mike Watt for his Ball-Hog Or Tugboat album, and also recorded spots on the soundtrack of the movie Backbeat. Grohl went back into the studio where he and Mike Watt fine tuned his Pocketwatch demo songs and printed ‘100 copies of the tape, passing it out to friends and associates. In no time, Grohl's solo project became the object of a fierce record company bidding war’ (MM, Grohl). Naming his solo project the after an term World War II fighter pilots called unidentified flying objects, the Foo Fighters were born. But just like Herb Alpert before...
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