Foo Fighters Deliver a Blast From the Past on ‘Kimmel’: Watch
Foo Fighters played “This Is A Call” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, revisiting a song from their 1995 debut album. The performance was part of a four-night residency during the show’s Halloween takeover week, connecting the band’s current run with the music that began its career.
Dave Grohl wrote and recorded the debut album’s songs and instruments in a week in October 1994, after Kurt Cobain’s death, before forming Foo Fighters and becoming the band’s frontman. The group, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, also performed “Window” from its latest album, Your Favorite Toy, on the residency’s opening night and is due to start an Australian stadium tour the following week.
In short
- Foo Fighters revisited “This Is A Call” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
- The song comes from their 1995 debut album.
- The band is preparing for an Australian stadium tour.
Explained simply
Foo Fighters began in 1994 as a project by Dave Grohl, who had been the drummer for Nirvana. After Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died, Grohl wrote and recorded the songs and instruments for Foo Fighters’ first album himself; he later formed a band and became its singer and guitarist.
The group’s self-titled debut album came out in 1995, launching a career that has spanned decades. Foo Fighters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, and their later work continues to sit alongside the songs that first introduced them.