Birthdays | Dave Grohl FOO FIGHTERS

Happy birthday to Dave Grohl, born in Warren, Ohio on this day in 1969.

and this is why I really REALLY like him!

WARNING! CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE!

You don’t come to one of my concerts to fight, you come to one of my concerts to DANCE!

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert - 2022-09-03 - Wembley Stadium, London, UK Various Artists (Foo Fighters and Special Guests) - BBChronicles

 Check out this over at BBChronicles

Taylor Hawkins Tribute - Foo Fighters and Various Artists - BBChronicles

Glad someone covered this . . . . . great sets and a worthy tribute to a great drummer

FOO FIGHTERS' DRUMMER DIES (50) - FOO FIGHTERS from 1997 -2017 - VOODOO WAGON & Big O

 TAYLOR HAWKINS

thanks for pointing me to this, Noel, 

so sad! 

Taylor Hawkins dead at 50 [no cause given as yet], fine, fine drummer!

FOO FIGHTERS AT GLASTONBURY 2017

Foo Fighters Glastonbury 2017 - Big O

Disc 1
Track 101. Times Like These 7:10
Track 102. All My Life 4:51
Track 103. Learn to Fly 5:28
Track 104. Something From Nothing 4:49
Track 105. The Pretender  8:17
Track 106. band introduction 6:01
Includes Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent), Another One Bites the Dust (Queen) and Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones) 
Track 107. Cold Day in the Sun 3:27
Track 108. Congregation 4:48
Track 109. Walk 6:16
Track 110. These Days 6:36
Track 111. My Hero 10:14
Track 112. Wheels (slow version) 6:29
75 mins

Disc 2
Track 201. Run 8:22
Track 202. This Is a Call 2:14
Track 203. Arlandria 6:33
Track 204. Monkey Wrench 13:28
Track 205. Best of You 13:27
Track 206. Skin and Bones 7:36
Track 207. Under Pressure 6:58
Queen cover with Taylor on vocals and Dave on drums
Track 208. Everlong 7:38
67 mins

Foo Fighters - Live in Sydney 2011 Big O

Disc 1
Track 101. Radio Intro (0:09) (253k)
Track 102. Bridge Burning (5:10) (8.2MB)
Track 103. Rope (4:34) (7.3MB)
Track 104. Dear Rosemary (4:10) (6.7MB)
Track 105. White Limo (3:40) (5.9MB)
Track 106. I Should Have Known (4:23) (7.4MB)
Track 107. Radio promo (0:30) (830k)
Track 108. Radio interview (0:47) (1.2MB)
Track 109. Learn To Fly (3:59) (6.4MB)
Track 110. My Hero (6:13) (9.9MB)
Track 111. Up In Arms (6:52) (11.0MB)
Track 112. Big Me (2:37) (4.4MB)
Track 113. Radio promo (0:30) (824k)

Disc 2
Track 201. Skin And Bones (4:35) (7.7MB)
Track 202. Hey, Johnny Park! (4:14) (6.7MB)
Track 203. Everlong (4:41) (7.5MB)
Track 204. Radio promo (0:09) (263k)
Track 205. The Pretender (5:44) (9.1MB)
Track 206. Radio promo (0:30) (855k)
Track 207. Best Of You (5:13) (8.3MB)
Track 208. For All The Cows (3:50) (6.1MB)
Track 209. Enough Space (2:35) (4.1MB)
Track 210. Aurora (7:16) (11.6MB)
Track 211. This Is A Call (5:06) (8.1M)
Track 212. Radio outro (0:29) (824k)
Total time: 1:28:11

Foo Fighters Central Park 2011 - Big O

Track 01. Times Like These (9.6MB)
Track 02. All My Life (5.2MB)
Track 03. My Hero (15.0MB)
Track 04. Learn To Fly (7.0MB)
Track 05. Arlandria (8.6MB)
Track 06. These Days (9.2MB)
Track 07. Walk (7.8MB)
Track 08. Best Of You (8.5MB)
Track 09. Everlong (10.5MB)
51:10

Foo Fighters - Live at Pinkpop Festival, Holland 2008

FOO FIGHTERS - Live at Pinkpop Holland 2008 - Voodoo Wagon

Set List:

01 Times Like These

02 Breakout

03 Learn To Fly

04 Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)

05 Stacked Actors

06 Skin And Bones

07 My Hero

08 Everlong

09 Monkey Wrench

10 All My Life

11 Best Of You

Foo Fighters / Live From The Pit - Garage, Cincinnati, OH Aug. 4, 1997

Foo Fighters Live From The Pit 1997 - VOODOO WAGON

Live From The Pit
Broadcast Window: July 28, 1997 - August 4, 1997
Recorded at the Garage, Cincinnati, OH on July 12, 1997
Sourced from original 2-cd set of the syndicated show

01. LFTP Intro
02. Wind Up
03. LFTP DJ chatter
04. Watershed
05. Hey Johnny Park!
06. Monkey Wrench
07. Interview Segment 1
08. Alone And Easy Target
09. Doll
10. See You
11. My Poor Brain
12. For All the Cows
13. Enough Space
14. Interview Segment 2
15. Big Me
16. Weenie Beenie
17. February Stars
18. Everlong
19. Interview Segment 3
20. New Way Home
21. This Is A Call
22. Up In Arms
23. I'll Stick Around
24. LFTP outro & show credits
25. LFTP promo - next week
26. LFTP Promo - tomorrow
27. LFTP Promo – Tonight

KURT COBAIN - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Hole Courtney Love 'Celebrity Skin'

 CLASSICS REVISITED!

"SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT"!

The first time I really registered becoming too old for then current music trends was the American grunge scene and especially the band Nirvana although now I enjoy the work of Foo Fighters and drummer/singer Dave Grohl and I like him very much . . . . Cobain had shot himself in the head by the time I was sitting up here in the UK and asking what was going on. Hole with his 'wife' Courtney Love I got later and found her sound I understood much more easily and maybe it was the USA/UK thing that I found Nirvana didn't travel as much 

Still I enjoyed reading about Kurt and these accounts struck!

“Cobain was very shy, very polite, and obviously enjoyed the fact that I wasn’t awestruck at meeting him. There was something about him, fragile and engagingly lost.”

• William S. Burroughs, according to Nirvana: The Day-By-Day Chronicle by Carrie Borzillo.

“He had a touch most guitarists would kill for.”

• Chuck Berry, according to Kurt Cobain by Christopher Sandford, Orion Press, 1995.

“That kid has heart.”

• Bob Dylan, after hearing the Nirvana song “Polly”, according to Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, Hyperion, 2001.

“I was simply blown away when I found out that Kurt Cobain liked my work, and I always wanted to talk to him about his reasons for covering “Man Who Sold The World.” It was a good straightforward rendition and sounded somehow very honest. It would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking would have been real cool.”

• David Bowie, quoted in “A Fan’s Notes,” SPIN (1995-04).

Classic pop songs of all time 

. . . .a cultural marker if ever there was one and no, I didn't buy it, nor did I really get grunge until long after the fascinating Kurt Cobain had killed himself, I like everything I read and find out about Dave Grohl and have enjoyed much of The Foo Fighters work but Nirvana left me feeling old and discarded and in the way!

On this day in music history: September 24, 1991 - “Nevermind”, the second album by Nirvana is released. Produced by Butch Vig, it is recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA, Smart Studios in Madison, WI and Devonshire Studios in North Hollywood, CA from April 1990, May - June 1991. Releasing their debut album “Bleach” on Seattle based indie label Sub Pop in 1989, Nirvana are disappointed when it sells only 40,000 copies initially. Deciding that the only way to reach a wider audience is to sign with a major label, the band are courted by several labels, but eventually sign with Geffen Records subsidiary DGC Records. Working previously with engineer and producer Butch Vig in 1990, he is chosen to produced their second album. With exception of the track “Polly” (recorded at Smart Studios in Madison, WI in April 1990), the bulk of Nirvana’s major label debut is recorded in Southern California during the Spring of 1991. When the album is originally mastered, engineer Howie Weinberg accidentally leaves off the final track “Endless, Nameless”, which was tacked on the end of the master tape, proceeded by ten minutes of blank leader tape in between. The mistake isn’t caught until after the first press run of CD’s and cassettes are manufactured. The first 20,000 copies of “Nevermind” exclude the hidden track, but is corrected on all future pressings. When it is released, initial expectations are low with only 46,251 copies being shipped. Thanks to the breakout success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (#6 Pop), the album reaches gold status in under thirty days, and platinum two weeks after that. It spends two weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 200 on January 11, 1992. The massive and unexpected success of the album affects a major sea change in not only the music industry, but in popular culture with the rise of the grunge music phenomenon of the early to mid 90’s. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its release in 2011, “Nevermind” is remastered and reissued as a four CD + DVD deluxe edition. Disc one features the original thirteen track album, with nine additional bonus tracks. Disc two features the previously unreleased “Smart Studios Sessions” recordings, and two tracks from a BBC in-studio appearance on DJ John Peel’s radio show. Disc three contains the original unreleased Devonshire Studios mixes. Disc four features a complete live concert recorded at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA on October 31, 1991. The DVD features the complete film of the concert, and all four original music videos from the album. The box set also comes in a slip case, with a ninety page hardbound book, and a double sided poster. Reissued on vinyl numerous times since its initial limited release in 1991, it is most recently remastered and released as a 180 gram LP in 2017. “Nevermind” is certified 10x Platinum in the US by the RIAA, receiving a Diamond Certification.

thanks to the wondrous blog Behind The Grooves