Composed by Dave Grohl - who is known for being part of Nirvana, as drummer - (vocals and guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Taylor Hawkins (drums), Chris Shiflett (guitar) and Pat Smear (guitar), the band was created in 1995 after Kurt Cobain's death in 1994.
The band's name is a reference to the term "foo fighter" used by pilots on World War II to describe UFOs.
Foo Fighters are known for songs like Learn To Fly, Times Like These, DOA and The Pretender.
They've released 7 albums - Foo Fighters (1995), The Colour And The Shape (1997), There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999), One by One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (2007) and Wasting Lights (2011).
Three of their albums - There Is Nothing Left To Lose, One by One and Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - won the Grammy award for Best Rock Album.
Wasting Lights was released on April 12, 2011. The frontman Dave Grohl wanted the album to have the essence of the band's earlier work and not include the artificial programming of the digital recording. So the band recorded the album on Grohl's own garage with analog equipment, under the supervision of the Nirvana's Nevermind album producer, Butch Vig.
Due to the demand of recording "old-school" the band spent three weeks rehearsing the songs and Vig had to relearn techniques of analog recording.
This album is more positive than the others, is more about "second chances" and references of past, present and future. On the album's guest musicians we have Bob Mould, one of Grohl's childhood idols and Krist Novoselic, also from Nirvana.
It's possible to see part of the recordings on Foo Fighters' documentary Back And Forth and according to Grohl "Personally, I thought it would be a good idea to now tell the story of the last 16 years, so it would make more sense to watch us make a record in a garage. After selling out fucking stadiums and becoming this big rock band, why would you make a garage record? To me the first hour and 20 minutes of the movie is leading up to that moment.". The documentary is a very good way to understand the entire process, what lead the band to do this record, how did everything become Foo Fighters.
Walk is the second single taken from Wasting Light. According to Dave Grohl he came up with the verse about "having a trial" after the time he was helping his daughter Violet Maye to walk. The song was supposed to appear on their previous work but Dave agreed the final version would fit as the last track of Wasting Light because it "sort of makes sense to the album's theme of time and second chances" and to end the record with a positive and inspiring song.
The video for Walk, received the 2011 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video.
"You keep alive a moment at a time
But still inside a whisper to a riot
To sacrifice but knowing to survive
The first to cry another state of mind"
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