GERMANY: Foo Fighters warm up for MTV EMA

Record ID: 374683

  • Title: GERMANY: Foo Fighters warm up for MTV EMA
  • Date: 5th November 2009
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  • Embargoed: 20th November 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6B37PP6CQUT2E8BLIHD37J0P0
  • Story Text: US-band Foo Fighters are set to perform live at Thursday's MTV European Music Awards. Rehearsals at the venue commenced late Wednesday (November 4) afternoon, shortly before the band were off to play a "surprise" concert at a nearby venue that had been arranged for fans short notice.
    Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments.
    He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters.
    That would have been the end of the story. But the tape inevitably ignited a bidding war among record labels, all desperate to release the first music from the Nirvana camp since the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994.
    Grohl assembled a real band with three musicians, signed with Capitol Records, and officially released the demo tape -- still dubbed "Foo Fighters" -- in July 1995.
    Fast-forward past seven hit albums to this week, when the band will release its first compilation, simply titled "Greatest Hits." The 16-track RCA Records set also boasts two new tracks, "Wheels" and "Word Forward," both of which were unveiled at the "Storytellers" taping.
    Foo Fighters will air on the VH1 music cable network in November 27. The voluble Grohl, the band's singer/guitarist, warned his audience at the outset that "the microphone is my friend," and shared lengthy anecdotes between renditions of 13 songs.
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