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Six Degrees of Dave Grohl: Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and Joan Jett DLC

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: foo-fighters, artist-pack, nirvana, joan-jett / 24 comments

By now Dave Grohl qualifies as the unofficial mayor of Rock Band, since he's all over the game in every guise you can name. Not only does he appear with five different bands (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, and Queens of the Stone Age), but the Foo Fighters were one of the first bands to make a whole album (The Colour & The Shape) available as DLC. And now they join the elite list of bands who've put new songs out as Rock Band downloads on the same day of their general release.

The Foo Fighters are temporarily on hiatus while Grohl rocks with Them Crooked Vultures, but they're keeping fans happy in the meanwhile with a new Greatest Hits album. Along with lots of old favorites (including '07's "The Pretender" and '05's "Best of You," both in our package), the CD has two brand-new songs, and we've got 'em both: "Wheels" was first performed live on the Fourth of July, when the Foo Fighters headlined a USO benefit at the White House, before some military heroes and President Obama. The other new song, "Word Forward" was also part of a recent studio session with producer Butch Vig, who first worked with Grohl on Nirvana's earthshaking Nevermind.

Grohl, of course, didn't appear on Nirvana's first album Bleach; original drummer Chad Channing was still in place then. And only a handful of insiders were paying attention when Sub Pop released this album, recorded for an estimated cost of 600 bucks. But over time, "School," "Blew" and especially "About a Girl" would take their place as landmark Nirvana tracks; writer Nick Hornby sort-of named a book and subsequent movie (About a Boy) after the latter. And some fans still prefer this corner of Nirvana's history, when they were still Seattle misfits with nothing to lose.

Wrapping up this week's package is a prime Joan Jett track, "Fake Friends." This was the leadoff single from her third album Album, the followup to the megahit I Love Rock & Roll. While it wasn't as big a hit, "Fake Friends" has attitude to spare and a killer guitar hook as well. And though nobody had heard of Dave Grohl in 1983, there must be a connection we can find. Let's see: Jett's first band was teen-punk sensations the Runaways….who were discovered and produced by notorious LA impresario Kim Fowley…who later cowrote the KISS classic "Do You Love Me"…which was then covered by Nirvana. How's that?

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bklynsteamer...

Those who worry about spelling errors should remember this is a WORLD wide web and that English is not everyone's first language.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Reidster88...

OMG, I AM SO GETTIN THESE FOO FIGHTERS TRACKS

Thursday, November 5, 2009

verbistje...

i played on my guitar xD

Thursday, November 5, 2009

MetalLover567...

Wow, aren't you amazing? I'm so impressed by your ability to scope out my mistypes. FYI wasn't being a a$$ to the guy. I was just saying. Check your mistypes btw.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

intropee...

Sweet!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Skillator...

Metal vastly outnumbers every other genre on rockband dlc. It's time for some other genres to catch up. Preferably Classic Rock.
More Nirvana is always nice though. Can we get Rape Me someday? Just put an ADULTS ONLY tag on it or something.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Witticus...

I don't care what the haters say, this is a fantastic Foo Fighters pack and I will never get mad at Harmonix for putting more great music into the game. However I think the people like Metalhead who tell others to spell right should read their post over befrore they submit comments. You're not exactly a spelling bee champion yourself dude.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

MetalLover567...

To much of the foo fighters we need more difficult songs to fulfill the metal lovers.
Enough with the east stuff. Bring in the metalcore!
I can't agree more with you jros32.
And Domanek you need to learn to spell man no offense.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Domanek...

what is all the bs about we get new music bye it or dount and just have a good time

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

chickdrummer88...

When are there going to be some Dave Matthews Band releases? Especially since the new album came out this year.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

OMEGAKZ...

mmmm I think it is time to give FF a rest, meybe im not a fan, but sure they alredy have plenty dlc, i think it is time for putting ZZtop, pantera, more R Stones, more Aerosmith, Slipknot, Led Zeppelin and J Hendrix

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Thrasher9294...

People on the forums love Foo Fighters, so it's not surprising. Not a big fan myself. You guys need to stop whining. Music is an opinion, not "My way or the highway".

Monday, November 2, 2009

luisjose...

please more avenged sevenfold , pack slipknot,pack atreyu,pack three days grace an more bullet for my valentine.Thank- s-

Monday, November 2, 2009

-KaGe-...

just keep the foo fighters stuff rolling. And dangrbvocals, you're wrong

Monday, November 2, 2009

jros32...

there hasnt been a good song pack since the mayhem tour pack

Sunday, November 1, 2009

R0XASS...

Yes! More Foo the better it gets!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

foovana18...

with the pretender and best of you, i will have WAY too many foo fighters songs

Saturday, October 31, 2009

timforever...

i buy the pretender and the nirvana songs

Saturday, October 31, 2009

JonS0L0...

Kinda seems like every week is waste of space week. It's just as horrible as that Wolfmother crap

Saturday, October 31, 2009

CO-Assasin...

The Pretender and I Love Rock & Roll caught my interest.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

dangrbvocals...

Waste of space week. Wonderful!
Foo Fighters are not that GREAT people, get over yourselves.
and Stewthejew, you are totally wrong.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Cubecubed...

i've said it before and ill say it again,i will buy and all Foo Fighters! Foo Fighters Discography plz!!!

Friday, October 30, 2009

MattDamon66...

PLEASEEEE say that this foo fighters stuff is out of your system now hmx...Theyve got about 3x as much stuff as any other band, and most of it isnt even good. I might get the pretender, but thats about it for this week.

Friday, October 30, 2009