100 Fun Facts About Foo Fighters

The band's name was borrowed from a term used by Allied pilots in World War II. What did it describe?

Grohl hoped the name would make listeners assume the record was made by a full band rather than one guy; he later called it 'the stupidest' band name in the world.

Grohl recorded almost all of the debut album himself in October 1994. How many days did the sessions take?

He and producer Barrett Jones would start by noon and knock out four songs a day, then hand cassette copies to friends for feedback.

Only one outside musician plays on the debut album, contributing a guitar part to "X-Static". Who was it?

Dulli happened to be watching Grohl record and got roped in; every other note and vocal on the album is Grohl.

The debut album was released through Capitol on Grohl's own imprint. What was the label called?

The UFO theme runs through the whole package: the cover shot by Grohl's then-wife Jennifer Youngblood shows a Buck Rogers ray gun.

Bassist Nate Mendel and the band's first drummer both came from which recently disbanded Seattle group?

Sunny Day Real Estate, the Seattle band behind the 1994 album Diary, was breaking up when Grohl recruited its bassist Nate Mendel and its drummer to fill out the first Foo Fighters lineup.

Which former Nirvana touring guitarist joined the original four-piece lineup in 1994?

Pat Smear, who had played second guitar for Nirvana on its final tours, joined in 1994; he quit in 1997, returned as a touring player in 2005 and was a full member again by 2010.

Where did the Foo Fighters play their first public show, on February 23, 1995?

Arcata, California: the debut gig was at the Jambalaya, a small club in the Humboldt County college town, on February 23, 1995, about four months before the first album came out.

The video for "Big Me" parodied the ads for which product, with the band hawking 'Footos'?

Mentos: the 'Footos' spots copied the candy's cheesy 'Freshmaker' ads shot for shot; the video won Best Group Video at the 1996 MTV VMAs, and fans pelted the band with Mentos at shows for years.

Who produced The Colour and the Shape (1997) and returned for Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace?

Gil Norton, best known for producing the Pixies, oversaw The Colour and the Shape in 1996–97 and returned a decade later for Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, drilling the band hard in pre-production.

Which drummer quit after Grohl re-recorded most of The Colour and the Shape's drum tracks himself?

William Goldsmith had tracked the album at Bear Creek Studio near Seattle, but Grohl quietly redid nearly every drum part at Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood; Goldsmith quit in 1997 when he found out.

Whose touring drummer was Taylor Hawkins when Grohl phoned him for a recommendation and he volunteered?

Alanis Morissette: Hawkins drummed on her Jagged Little Pill world tour from 1995 to 1997; when Grohl rang asking for a name, Hawkins offered himself and joined in 1997, before the second album's release.

Who directed the surreal, dream-hopping music video for "Everlong"?

Michel Gondry, the French director later behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, shot the 'Everlong' video in 1997, complete with Evil Dead-style nightmares and Grohl's giant hand.

"Everlong" was inspired by Grohl's romance with Louise Post, singer of which band?

Veruca Salt: Post, the Chicago band's co-frontwoman, was dating Grohl in 1996 and sang backing vocals on 'Everlong'; Grohl said the song was about being so connected you harmonize perfectly when singing together.

Grohl's solo acoustic 'Everlong' took off after an impromptu 1998 performance on whose radio show?

Howard Stern: Grohl played 'Everlong' alone on acoustic guitar on Stern's radio show in 1998; the stripped-down arrangement later closed the 2006 live album Skin and Bones and appears on the 2009 Greatest Hits.

Foo Fighters' 1997 replacement guitarist Franz Stahl was Grohl's old bandmate from which D.C. hardcore band?

Scream, the Washington-area hardcore band, took on a 17-year-old Grohl as drummer in 1987, replacing Kent Stax; it fell apart on tour in 1990 when bassist Skeeter Thompson quit, freeing Grohl to join Nirvana.

Which single became the band's first to reach the Billboard Hot 100?

Learn to Fly, the lead single from 1999's There Is Nothing Left to Lose, peaked at number 19 on the Hot 100 — the band's first appearance on that chart — and topped Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

In the video for the band's 1999 airliner single, which comedy duo play cabin cleaners smuggling sleeping powder?

Tenacious D — Jack Black and Kyle Gass — play the cleaning crew who spike the plane with 'erotic sleeping powder'; the video won the 2001 Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.

Grohl named his home studio in Alexandria, Virginia 'Studio 606'. What did 606 turn out to be?

He said for years it was 'just one of those numbers that's everywhere' before telling the real story in a 2020 Instagram post about a 1985 lecture from his dad.

Chris Shiflett joined after There Is Nothing Left to Lose from which California punk band?

No Use for a Name, the Bay Area punk band, was Shiflett's home from 1995 until the Foos hired him in late 1999; he also played in Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and later released solo country records.

A 'key man clause' let the band leave Capitol Records when which executive was forced out?

Gary Gersh, the Geffen A&R man who had signed Nirvana, ran Capitol when the Foos signed there; a key-man clause tied to him let the band walk when he was ousted in 1998, and they moved to RCA.

Which band's Songs for the Deaf did Dave Grohl help finish before the Foos re-recorded One by One?

Queens of the Stone Age: Grohl drummed on their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf while the Foos were in limbo, then returned and re-cut One by One in under two weeks at his home studio near Washington, D.C.

In Your Honor (2005) had an unusual format for a Foo Fighters record. What was it?

Grohl called the two halves 'the bottle and the hangover'; guests included Norah Jones, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones.

Norah Jones duets with Grohl on which bossa nova track from In Your Honor?

'Virginia Moon', a hushed bossa nova from In Your Honor, pairs Grohl with Norah Jones; his guitar tech Joe Beebe played the jazzy nylon-string guitar part.

Which Foo Fighters song did Prince cover during his rain-soaked halftime show at Super Bowl XLI in 2007?

Best of You: Prince played the Foos' 2005 single in the Miami rain, a surprise because he had earlier objected to the band's own cover of his 'Darling Nikki'.

Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones joined the band at Wembley in 2008. Which band were they from?

Grohl played drums on "Rock and Roll" while Hawkins sang, then yelled that it was the greatest day of his whole life.

Where was Wasting Light (2011) recorded?

Grohl's garage in Encino, at his home in the San Fernando Valley, was the live room; the family house became the makeshift studio, and the sessions were filmed for the 2011 documentary Back and Forth.

Wasting Light was produced by the man who had also produced Nirvana's Nevermind. Who?

He had already produced the two new tracks on the band's 2009 Greatest Hits, which is how the reunion started.

What technical rule did the band impose on the recording of Wasting Light?

All analog, no computers: the band tracked to 24-track tape with no Pro Tools, and Grohl even packaged a strip of the original master tape inside each CD copy of the album.

Which former Nirvana bassist appears as a guest on Wasting Light?

Krist Novoselic plays bass and accordion on 'I Should Have Known', reuniting the Nirvana rhythm section; Bob Mould and Fee Waybill also guest, and the album was the band's first to debut at number one on the Billboard 200.

The video for "Walk" is an homage to which 1993 film?

Falling Down, the 1993 Michael Douglas film, is restaged scene by scene: Grohl abandons his car in an L.A. traffic jam and melts down in a fast-food joint; the video won Best Rock Video at the 2011 MTV VMAs.

Which network aired the Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways series, about recording eight songs in eight cities?

HBO aired the eight-part Sonic Highways in autumn 2014, with Grohl directing; each episode followed the band cutting one song in a different American city, from Chicago's Electrical Audio to New Orleans' Preservation Hall.

The Foo Fighters were the final musical guests on whose last late-night show, in May 2015?

The host called them 'my favorite band, playing my favorite song' after the tune had helped him through heart surgery in 2000; the band postponed a tour to be there.

In which city did Grohl break his leg falling off stage in June 2015, finishing the show from a chair?

Gothenburg, Sweden: Grohl fell from the Ullevi Stadium stage on June 12, 2015, had the leg set by a doctor side-stage and finished the show seated; he then toured on a towering throne he sketched while on painkillers.

In which country did 1,000 musicians play one Foo Fighters song together in 2015?

Italy: the Rockin' 1000 gathered a thousand players in Cesena in July 2015 to perform one of the band's hits as a plea for a visit; the video went viral and the band played the town that November.

Which pop producer, known for Adele's 'Hello', made Foo Fighters' Concrete and Gold (2017)?

Greg Kurstin, the co-writer and producer of Adele's 'Hello', produced Concrete and Gold in 2017 and stayed on for Medicine at Midnight (2021) and But Here We Are (2023).

Which rock legend guests on drums on the Concrete and Gold track "Sunday Rain"?

Paul McCartney dropped by EastWest Studios in Hollywood during the 2017 Concrete and Gold sessions and played drums on 'Sunday Rain', a song with Taylor Hawkins on lead vocals.

Grohl said "probably the biggest pop star in the world" sang backing vocals on Concrete and Gold. Who was it?

He turns up on "Make It Right"; Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men sings on the title track after a chance meeting with Grohl in the parking lot.

For Record Store Day 2021 the band released Hail Satin under a punning alias, covering which group?

The Bee Gees: as the Dee Gees, the band cut 'You Should Be Dancing', 'Night Fever', 'Tragedy' and 'More Than a Woman' plus Andy Gibb's 'Shadow Dancing', backed with live Medicine at Midnight tracks.

In Studio 666 (2022), what happens to Grohl while the band records in a haunted mansion?

'Possessed by a demon, he kills his bandmates' is the plot: a demonic force in the rented mansion takes over Grohl, who picks off the band one by one; John Carpenter co-wrote the opening-credits theme.

Taylor Hawkins died on March 25, 2022 in a hotel in which city?

Bogotá, Colombia: Hawkins, 50, was found dead in his hotel room hours before the band was to headline the Estéreo Picnic festival; the festival stage became a candlelight vigil that night.

At the Wembley tribute concert for Taylor Hawkins, his 16-year-old son Shane played drums on which song?

My Hero: Shane Hawkins, 16, hammered through the song with the Foos at Wembley Stadium on September 3, 2022, the night's most-shared moment; he played it again at the Los Angeles tribute show later that month.

Who played all the drums on But Here We Are (2023), the first album after Hawkins's death?

Grohl himself played every drum part on But Here We Are, as he had on the 1995 debut; the 2023 album is dedicated to Hawkins and to Grohl's mother, who also died in 2022.

After Josh Freese was let go in 2025, which former Nine Inch Nails touring drummer joined the band?

Ilan Rubin, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with Nine Inch Nails, made his Foo Fighters debut at a small theater show in San Luis Obispo in September 2025.

Where was Dave Grohl born?

Warren, Ohio: Grohl was born there on January 14, 1969, and the family moved to the Washington, D.C. suburbs when he was three; he taught himself drums playing along to Rush and punk records on pillows.

Grohl drums in a supergroup with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones. What is it called?

Their debut single "New Fang" won the 2011 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Grohl's 2013 documentary debut was about which recording studio, where Nevermind was made?

Sound City, the Van Nuys studio where Nevermind was tracked in 1991, closed as a commercial room in 2011; Grohl bought its Neve 8028 console for his own studio and made the 2013 film about it.

A future Foo Fighters guitarist co-founded which LA punk band with Darby Crash in 1976?

The Germs: the guitarist, born Georg Ruthenberg, formed the band with Crash in Los Angeles in 1976; its original drummer 'Dottie Danger' was Belinda Carlisle, later of the Go-Go's, who never played a show with them.

Which Queen song did Grohl and Hawkins play with the band at its 2001 Rock Hall induction?

Tie Your Mother Down: on March 19, 2001 Grohl sang and played guitar with Brian May and Roger Taylor while Hawkins drummed; a year earlier May had already added guitar to the Foos' cover of Pink Floyd's 'Have a Cigar'.

Keyboardist Rami Jaffee, later a full member, spent 15 years in which band first?

The Wallflowers: Jaffee played keyboards with Jakob Dylan's band from 1989 to 2004, including the hit album Bringing Down the Horse; he first recorded with the Foos on In Your Honor in 2005 and became an official member in 2017.

After Nirvana ended, Grohl nearly took a job as drummer for which established band?

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Grohl drummed with them on Saturday Night Live in November 1994 and was offered the job, but turned it down to start the Foo Fighters instead.

In 1992, while still in Nirvana, Grohl released a cassette of demos under the alias Late!. What was it called?

One of its songs, "Marigold", ended up as a Nirvana B-side and resurfaced on the Foos' 2006 acoustic tour.

What is the title of Grohl's 2021 memoir?

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, published in October 2021, grew out of the 'Dave's True Stories' pieces Grohl posted online during the pandemic and debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

Which single topped Billboard's Modern Rock chart for a then-record 18 weeks in 2007?

The Pretender, the lead single from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, held number one on the Modern Rock chart for 18 weeks in 2007 and won Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2008 Grammys; the album took Best Rock Album.

What portmanteau name was given to the Foo Fighters' 2005 co-headlining run with Weezer?

Foozer: the Foo Fighters/Weezer co-headlining arena tour ran through September and October 2005, the year In Your Honor and Weezer's Make Believe both came out; the Foos also headlined Reading and Leeds that summer.

Which Motörhead member sang a Probot song with the band at Hyde Park in 2006?

Lemmy joined the band at Hyde Park on June 17, 2006 to sing 'Shake Your Blood', the song he had written with Grohl for the 2004 Probot metal project; Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor also guested that night.

Whose 2004 presidential run did Grohl back after Bush rallies used 'Times Like These'?

John Kerry: after hearing 'Times Like These' at George W. Bush rallies, Grohl reasoned he couldn't stop a president using his songs, so he played acoustic sets at Kerry campaign events in the 2004 race instead.

Under what alias did the Foo Fighters play three small UK club shows in September 2014?

The Holy Shits was the name on the bill for the Concorde 2 in Brighton and the House of Vans in London in September 2014, warm-ups before the band headlined the Invictus Games closing concert in London.

How many Grammy Awards did the Foo Fighters win at the 54th ceremony in 2012 for Wasting Light?

Five: Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for 'Walk', Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, Best Rock Album, and Best Long Form Music Video for the documentary Back and Forth; only Album of the Year went elsewhere, to Adele's 21.

What was the name of the EP of Studio 666 songs that Grohl released in March 2022?

Dream Widow is the fictional metal band whose unfinished song drives the film; Grohl played every instrument on the eight-track EP, released on March 25, 2022, the day Taylor Hawkins died.

At the 2021 VMAs the band became the first act to receive which award?

Global Icon Award: the band accepted it at the September 2021 VMAs, the first time that show had given the honour; the next month they entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.

Which future Wednesday star co-starred with the band in the 2022 horror comedy Studio 666?

Jenna Ortega, months before Netflix's Wednesday made her a star, plays the film's opening-scene victim; Will Forte, Whitney Cummings and Jeff Garlin also appear in the Open Road Films release.

In January 2021 the band performed at which national event?

Joe Biden's inauguration: on January 20, 2021 the band played 'Times Like These' in the televised 'Celebrating America' special, a few weeks before Medicine at Midnight arrived after the pandemic had pushed it out of 2020.

On a 2015 episode of The Muppets, Grohl faced which character in a drum-off?

Animal, the Electric Mayhem's wild drummer, faced Grohl in a drum battle on ABC's 2015 series The Muppets; Grohl had already parodied him in the 2011 film The Muppets as 'Animool', drummer of the Moopets tribute act.

In the 2017 video for 'Run', the band members appear as what?

Elderly residents of a nursing home: the band, in heavy old-age makeup, rise up against the staff in the 2017 clip Grohl directed; the song won Best Rock Song at the 2018 Grammys.

In June 2023 the band made a surprise appearance at which English festival?

Glastonbury: billed only as 'The ChurnUps', the band played the Pyramid Stage on June 23, 2023, their first time at the festival since headlining it in 2017 and three weeks after But Here We Are came out.

How did the band greet Westboro Baptist Church picketers outside a 2015 Kansas City show?

They rickrolled them: in August 2015 the band rolled past the Kansas City picket in a truck blasting Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'; in 2011 they had answered the same protesters with a parody song in trucker outfits.

The Wasting Light single 'Walk' appeared in which 2011 Marvel film?

Thor: 'Walk' plays over the closing credits of Kenneth Branagh's 2011 Marvel film; another Wasting Light track, 'Miss the Misery', turned up in the robot-boxing movie Real Steel the same year.

A ten-year-old fan Grohl pulled on stage in 2018 played songs by which band on his guitar?

Metallica: ten-year-old Collier Cash Rule played 'Enter Sandman' with the band in Kansas City in October 2018; Grohl sang along and then told him to keep the guitar.

What twist ends the performance video for 'All My Life'?

'The arena turns out to be empty' is the reveal: the band tears through the song on a lit stage and the final wide shot shows no crowd at all; Grohl directed it as a straight performance clip.

'Friend of a Friend' was written about Grohl sharing an apartment in 1990 with whom?

Kurt Cobain: Grohl slept on the couch of Cobain's Olympia apartment after joining Nirvana in 1990, and wrote the song about those months; it surfaced on his pseudonymous 1992 demo tape before In Your Honor revived it in 2005.

Grohl's Hanukkah Sessions, begun in 2020 with his producer, released what each night?

A cover of a song by a Jewish artist went out on each of the eight nights, starting in December 2020 with the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'; the series returned in 2021 and 2022.

The band re-recorded 'Walking After You' as a single for which 1998 TV-to-film soundtrack?

The X-Files: the 1998 movie soundtrack got a new full-band version, while the original on The Colour and the Shape was Grohl alone, cut in Washington, D.C. over a 1996 holiday break amid the breakup of his first marriage.

Which electronic producer remixed 'Rope' and played it with the band at the 2012 Grammys?

Deadmau5, the Ontario-born Joel Zimmerman, reworked 'Rope' and joined the band for it at the February 2012 Grammys, where his mix was nominated for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

The free 2015 EP Saint Cecilia was recorded at a hotel of that name in which city?

Austin: the band cut the EP's free songs at the Hotel Saint Cecilia during a 2015 stop in the city; Cecilia is the patron saint of music, and the EP dropped the day after her November 22 feast day.

Which band tried to poach Hawkins in 2000 before Roger Taylor talked him out of leaving?

Guns N' Roses: around 2000 Hawkins was sounded out for their drum stool, but Queen's Roger Taylor, his friend and mentor, urged him to stay; the drummer he would have replaced, Josh Freese, filled Hawkins's seat from 2023 to 2025.

What is on the cover of There Is Nothing Left to Lose?

'Initials inked on the back of Grohl's neck' — a tattoo reading 'FF' — fills the 1999 cover; early pressings of the CD came with a temporary tattoo of the same design.

At which 2002 festival did the band play what Grohl feared could be its final show?

Coachella: in April 2002, with the One by One sessions scrapped and rehearsals ending in fights, Grohl thought the desert festival set might be the band's last; enjoying it persuaded them to regroup and re-record the album.

The band played 'Resolve' and 'Miracle' on the Election Day episodes of which TV drama?

The West Wing: the band appear as themselves at a Santos campaign rally in the 2006 'Election Day' two-parter of the NBC drama; Grohl's weeks on a real 2004 presidential campaign trail had shaped much of In Your Honor.

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace won which prize at the 2008 Brit Awards?

Best International Album went to Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace at the February 2008 Brit Awards, a night when the band also took the international group prize; the record had entered the UK chart at number one.

The Colour and the Shape was named for a tour manager's remark on which thrift-store buy?

'A striped bowling pin' the tour manager picked up was the object; asked why he bought it, he said he liked 'the colour and the shape', and the band adopted the phrase; the British spelling honours the album's English producer.

At which Seattle studio did Grohl record the debut album on his own in October 1994?

Robert Lang Studios, in the Shoreline area just north of Seattle, hosted the session; Grohl laid down drums, guitar, bass and vocals for each song in roughly 45 minutes, one instrument at a time.

Who premiered two songs from Grohl's 1994 demo tape on his Self-Pollution radio broadcast?

Eddie Vedder played 'Exhausted' and 'Gas Chamber' on his pirate-style Self-Pollution Radio broadcast in January 1995; Grohl had made only about 100 cassettes for friends, and the tape's spread brought the label offers.

In which city was Taylor Hawkins born in 1972?

Fort Worth, Texas: Hawkins was born there on February 17, 1972; his family moved to Laguna Beach when he was four, and he graduated from Laguna Beach High School in 1990.

A 2016 spoof video 'replaced' Grohl as singer with which former boy-band member?

Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees was unveiled as the new frontman in the March 2016 clip, which had Grohl quitting to make electronic music and ended with the line 'For the millionth time, we're not breaking up.'

In Your Honor debuted at number two in both the US and UK behind which 2005 album?

Coldplay's X&Y held number one on both sides of the Atlantic when In Your Honor arrived in June 2005; the Foos' album opened with about 311,000 US copies, the band's biggest first week to that point.

The band's first major tour, in spring 1995, was opening for which punk bassist?

Mike Watt, the former Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist, took the Foos out as openers on his 1995 Ball-Hog or Tugboat? tour; Grohl pulled double duty by drumming in Watt's backing band each night.

Grohl compared the upbeat sound of Medicine at Midnight to which David Bowie album?

Let's Dance: Grohl said he wanted the 2021 album to be the Foos' party record, the way Bowie's 1983 smash was his, and it leans on drum loops and groove-first arrangements.

Which Medicine at Midnight single won Best Rock Song at the 2022 Grammys?

Waiting on a War took Best Rock Song at the 64th Grammys on April 3, 2022, nine days after Hawkins's death; the band also won Best Rock Album and Best Rock Performance that night.

Which song opens The Colour and the Shape?

Doll, a hushed ballad of under 90 seconds, opens The Colour and the Shape; the full-throttle 'Monkey Wrench' follows it as track two.

Alison Mosshart, who sings on 'The Sky Is a Neighborhood', fronts which band?

The Kills, her duo with Jamie Hince, made Mosshart a natural guest on Concrete and Gold; she also sings on 'La Dee Da', a track that features smooth-jazz saxophonist Dave Koz.

Which fingerstyle guitarist guests on 'Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners'?

Kaki King, the fingerstyle virtuoso, trades acoustic lines with Grohl on the instrumental; he wrote it after the 2006 Beaconsfield mine collapse in Tasmania, where trapped miner Brant Webb had asked for an iPod loaded with Foo Fighters music.

Which song was released as the first single from Sonic Highways?

Something from Nothing, cut at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio in Chicago with Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen guesting on guitar, was released as the first single from Sonic Highways in October 2014.

But Here We Are beat which ex-Oasis songwriter's band to UK number one in 2023?

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released Council Skies the same day, June 2, 2023, and finished runner-up as But Here We Are took UK number one; in the US the Foos' album entered at number eight.

Which artist famed for Black Flag's imagery drew the One by One album artwork?

Raymond Pettibon, whose ink drawings defined Black Flag's flyers and sleeves, drew the 2002 One by One cover with its heart motif; Grohl had grown up on Black Flag records.

Before its 2005 single release, 'DOA' debuted in what unusual form?

A Cingular ringtone: the wireless carrier offered 'DOA' as a download before the song went to radio in 2005; like the album's lead single before it, it went on to top Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

Which Wasting Light song had two-minute lyrics, after Mendel asked for something silly?

White Limo, the album's shrieked, barely intelligible punk blast, won the 2012 Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, beating Mastodon, Megadeth and Dream Theater.

Which album gave the Foo Fighters their first UK number one?

One by One entered the UK Albums Chart at number one in October 2002, the band's first chart-topper there; the three earlier albums had peaked at three, three and ten.

Which song was the only survivor from One by One's scrapped million-dollar first sessions?

Tired of You, with Queen's Brian May on guitar, was carried over from the scrapped sessions; everything else was redone in a twelve-day blitz at Grohl's basement studio outside Washington, D.C.

'Enough Space' was inspired by which Emir Kusturica film, a Grohl favourite?

Arizona Dream, Kusturica's 1993 film with Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis, was a Grohl favourite and the spark for 'Enough Space'; he also built the song to open shows, its tempo matched to the pogoing of European festival crowds.

Which Olympic swimmer appeared on the cover of a 2001 Australian Foo Fighters reissue?

Michael Klim, the Australian swimmer who won two golds at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, posed for the cover of the 2001 two-disc Australian tour edition of There Is Nothing Left to Lose.