To date, all but 2 of their albums were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, with four of them actually winning.
The band has been praised highly by critics, stepping out of the shadow of Nirvana to become one of the most influential alternative rock bands of recent years. Replacements were found in Alanis Morissette ex-bandmember Taylor Hawkins on drums and Franz Stahl in place of Smear (who was himself replaced by Chris Shiflett after the release of their third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose that album was recorded by Grohl, Mendel and Hawkins as a trio specifically because of the lineup instability). Smear left shortly after the album was released. Goldsmith left after the album was recorded, as Grohl had replaced most of Goldsmith's drums tracks with his own. Bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith came from cultly admired emo trope codifiers Sunny Day Real Estate, while Pat Smear, a member of The Germs and the fourth member of Nirvana for its last few years, played guitar.
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Grohl decided to draft in a full band for live shows and for the second album, The Colour and the Shape. Eddie Vedder played a few songs on his radio show, and the positive response motivated Grohl to move forward.
At first, Grohl hid behind the Foo Fighters name, preferring that people judge the album on its own merits rather than on Grohl's name or the fans' desire to fill the vacuum left by Nirvana. Foo Fighters was originally a one-man project started by Dave Grohl after the dissolution of Nirvana (though he had written and recorded future Foo Fighters songs while still in the band), and he plays all the instruments on every song on the band's debut album (with the exception of "X-Static", which featured Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs on guitar).
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