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.