The Foo Fighters

Born May 6t 1971 in Santa Barbara, California he learned to play the guitar at the age of  11 and would join his first band at 14. His first concert was Dio performing Holy Diver at the Arlington Theater. Early in his career  a friend announced that Guns N' Roses was auditioning for a guitarist. Shiflett asked his friend to instead get him an audition for the Foo Fighters and after recording There Is Nothing Left to Lose as a trio held open auditions to hire another guitarist. A heavy influence for Grohl to hire Chris was the fact that he had actually opened for Grohl's former band Scream as a member of Rat Pack. After hired he would go on the There is Nothing Left to Lose tour and start recording in the studio starting with One by One. He had a fear of being fired before ever getting to play with the band after formere guitarist Pat Smear showed intrest in rejoining the band this would cause him to leave his band at the time No Use For a Name abbruptly. While Pat would rejoin both would stay on guitar to this day.

Born December 2, 1968 in Richland Washington, he grew up with heavy musical influences. First learning to play the violin Mendel started to gravitate towards the rock scene at the age of 13 joining his first band. One of his friends in the band suggested he try the bass guitar and Mendel said  "as I picked up that bass guitar I went on a 20-year detour into punk". Having limited influences in his area he was mostly self-taught in which he took the mindset " Instead of studying the bass playing of someone like John Entwistle, which would have given me a foundation of how to play. I just wanted to play a lot of notes really fast." He would join the band Diddly Squat and would tour with them in the summer of 1988. After Diddly Squat ended he would move to Seattle and after a couple of other bands in 1992, Mendel and his University of Washington housemate Dan Hoerner decided to form a band, and invited drummer William Goldsmith to form the group that would end up being named Sunny Day Real Estate. Just prior to Sunny Day Real Estate he was invited to join the Foo Fighters by Dave Grohl in early 1994 in which he is still an active member. Only Nate, Dave, and Pat remain of the original line up.

Born August 5 1959 as Georg Ruthenburg in Los Angelos California, ran away at 13 to join a jesus commune. While attending a specialized academy he would meet vocalist Darby Crash whith whom they would start the band Germ. They would add bassist Lorna Doom and Drummer Don Bolles, together they would gain momentum in the LA underground community in the late 70's. All of this would come to an abrupt stop when Darby Crash overdosed on heroin on December 7 1980. After this Smear would go on to find jobs where he could for example on tv shows such as CHiPs and films such as Blade Runner, Howard the Duck, and Breakin'. After he was out of the video industry he would release his first solo album Ruthensmear in 1987 under the label SST, he would then release the song So You Fell in Love with a Musician in 1992 and shortly after would be asked to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers to replace guitarist John Frusciante; he would turn down this opprotunity to tour with Nirvana instead. He built a close relationship with vocalist Kurt Cobain and his wife, following Cobain's death Smear would join Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl on the album The Colour and The Shape and would later rejoin the band in 2005 until the present. 

Taylor Hawkins born Feburary 17th 1972 in Dallas Texas soon moved to Laguna Beach California in 1976 where he grew up in the sands as a surfer. He started his musical career in the band Sylvia until he left the Orange County and later found a spot as the drummer in Alanis Morissette band. He would later be introudced to Dave Grohl though his brother who had been camping with Grohl weeks earlier. When he heard the Foo Fighters had an opening he jumped on the position in 1994 and has been with the band ever since. He has become a world renound drummer and similar to Grohl started his side project in off time from the Foo, where he began recording with the Coattail Riders, they released an LP in 2006 in which he plays the drums as well as vocals. He was voted best rock drummer in 2005 by UK drumming magazine. He struggled with drug addiction in the early 90's to late 00's in which he overdosed in london while on tour. He has since married Allison Hawkins and they have had three kids Oliver Shane, Annabelle and a second daughter whos name has yet to be disclosed. 

David Eric Grohl is born in Warren Ohio until the age of 3 when he later moved to Virgina. While Living in Virigina his parents divorced at the tender age of 6 after which he lived with his mother and sister Lisa. This rough start was followed by a rebellious Grohl through highschool which he dropped out during junior year to pursue his band at the time Scream and smoking pot. He would appear on 3 of thier albums as well as went on tour multiple times with the band. While on tour he met the Melvin band where backstage he saw his future Nirvana band mates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, he didn't talk to them that night but was given the chance to audition for Nirvana thanks to Buzz Ousbourne. He would be welcomed to the band with open arms and would be with the band until the unfortunate death of Kurt. He then moved on to the Foo Fighters whos first album consisted of mostly songs written by Grohl while he was still with Nirvana but felt Kurt growing distant. From here the band would go on to produce Album after Album gaining  more momentum and success as they went. The band is still around today making music and finding their way to tops of charts. He is currently married to Jordyn Blum since 2003 after a failed mariage in 1994-1997 to photographer Jennifer Youngblood. He also has 3 kids Viloet May Grohl, Harper Willow Grohl, and Ophelia Grohl.