Foo Fighters - Los Angeles 1995

Foo Fighters, live on the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas special, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, 17th December 1995

This is taken from the annual, above long named show, which has been running since 1990, and nowadays streams on the KROQ website. Not a great deal of songs from this pre-fm disc, but they're not your usual Foo Fighters fare for sure. Enjoy!

01. DJ Intro
02. This is a Call
03. Watershed
04. I'll Stick Around
05. Floaty
06. DJ Outro

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Fighters KROQ

Dave Grohl - Solo Demo 1990

Dave Grohl, Solo Demo recording, Laundry Room Studio, Arlington 1990

In 1990, Daves band Scream split after losing their bass player, after a chat with Buzz Osbourne of The Melvins he was told that Nirvana were seeking a new drummer...the rest as they say, is history.

When this demo waas recorded during that period, I couldn't really say, but what I can say is this...it's pretty damn ace. Both Hells Garden and Friend Of A Friend are rather Nirvanaesque in structure and Daves vocals (two-chord changes, loud/quite dynamic), no bad thing. Just Another Story is a nice slice of punk, akin to something The Circle Jerks might've released, which Dave does in a rather fetching spoken word style.

Download both individual and archived files, as I'll be just containing the rest in them from now on. People don't have duplicates, saves my upload time etc.

01 Pokey Little Puppy (Instrumental)
02 Patrol
03 Friend Of A Friend
04 Throwing Needles
05 Just Another Story
06 Hell's Garden
07 Bruce (Instrumental)
08 Milk

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Foo Fighters with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones live at Wembley

Foo Fighters with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, live at Wembley Stadium, June 7th 2008

Extra tracks from the Wembley dates posted previously (now updated with fresh links here), this time with the Zep pairing. Dave plays drums while Taylor sings on Rock'N'Roll, and they revert to their regular roles for Ramble on.

01 - Rock And Roll
02 - Ramble On

Foo Fighters - Wembley June 2008 *updated links*

Foo Fighters, Wembley Stadium, June 6/7th 2008

These tracks are taken from a BBC radio broadcast on the 9th June, which mixed songs played on both nights of the Foo Fighters double-header at Wembley. The broadcast set contains songs from over their career, or should I say Daves as a Foo, due to the fact the 1st record was just him alone, before bringing in Nate to play with the live band, then later adding Hawkins then Shiflett to what is now a stable, and very damn tight, rock band.

When he first released an album under the Foo Fighters banner, he was naturally, and perhaps unfairly, compared to former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. While it's obvious enough that Kurt would've been an influence on Daves playing and writing styles, it was a bit tough for him to be immediately compared to such a seminal band.

For that first album, self titled, Daves writing couldn't hold a candle to that of his deceased friend, and overall the album was rather patchy, though it did contain some great songs, notably I'll Stick Around and Big Me. As the band has grown and released more and more albums, Daves writing, helped of course by the other members, has grown exponentially. So much so, that his brand of more positive sounding rock music I think would outsell (and probably does) that of Nirvana, due to it's accessability.

Anyway, I'm rambling...thanks to Miki for this, and sorry for ripping it to MP3!

01. Intro
02. The Pretender
03. Times Like These
04. Long Road To Ruin
05. Break Out
06. Skin And Bones
07. Big Me
08. My Hero
09. Everlong
10. Monkey Wrench
11. All My Life
12. D.O.A.
13. Best Of You

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