Monday 30 May 2011

Rock & Grohl



I've been a big fan of the Foo Fighters since their first album, but I'll be honest in that I didn't know that much about the band itself until I saw the insightful documentary Foo Fighters: Back And Forth. It's a full chronological history of the band from founding member Dave Grohl's early history in Nirvana, through the turbulent changes in the band's line up in the late 90's, to the successes and challenges that they've faced over the past decade. Of course there's plenty of Foo's tunes to accompany the drama and it's also an opportunity to see how key songs were written, recorded and developed.

Frank, fun and fascinating in equal measure, this is well worth watching whether you're a fan of rock music or not.

1 comment:

Nick aka Puppet Angel said...

Watched this last night on BBC2.

It's easy to forget just what an awesome band the Foo's are, largely thanks to the ridiculously talented, charismatic, down to earth Dave Grohl.

Like you, I didn't know much about the actual band itself other than it was Grohl who founded it post-Nirvana. A lot of the stuff in the doc was a revelation.

My fave moment was seeing Grohl on stage at Wembley in 2008 fighting back tears of amazement at how far they'd come as a band. Humbling stuff.

God bless you Dave. You rock!