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While he was still drumming with Nirvana, Dave Grohl was recording original songs at home that never received public release. Those tapes became the foundation of Foo Fighters, the band he formed in 1995, after the death of Kurt Cobain.
Since that time the band has been through a huge amount of change, band members coming and going at a rate of knots - even Dave Grohl himself taking a break to drum with Queens of the Stone Age for a while. What has been consistent has been the quality of the music. Foo Fighters are one of the rare bands who can do ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ with perfection. This was especially evident with their most recent double album ‘In Your Honor’.
'Everyone in the band has so much to offer', Grohl says. B'ut we'd sort of remained in this one 'thing' for so long that I felt it was time... that maybe we should make the acoustic record - but then I started thinking about how I didn't want to show up to the Reading Festival with a harpsichord, or whatever. This band just has to make some rock music, so I thought, OK, why don't we do this? Why don't we make a DOUBLE album?'
Enjoy the tour, the album, the video retrospective and the Yahoo! Music exclusive live content below:
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