He later turned down an offer to join them permanently, instead deciding to transform his Foo Fighters solo project – which had immediately generated label interest – into a full-blown band. Grohl did return to drums again, recording the soundtrack for the film Backbeat that chronicles the early days of The Beatles and also playing with other bands including an incendiary performance with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers on Saturday Night Live. Mainly, he wanted the demo to sound like it came from a group instead of just one guy.
Grohl credited the project to “Foo Fighters”, a term coined by the US Air Force during World War II to explain strange phenomena in the sky, because he’d been reading lots of books on UFOs. He even recorded a demo at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios, playing all the instruments himself and working with producer Barrett Jones (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Melvins). Unsure of what to do next, Grohl started making music on his own. He rose to fame as the seventh and longest-running drummer of grunge idols Nirvana, having performed with the band from 1990 until frontman Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994. As a musician, singer-songwriter, producer, director and documentary filmmaker, Ohio-born Dave Grohl is a man of many talents.
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