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Induction a salute to Foo Fighters
2021 has been the year of the Foo.
It seems Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters haven’t been out of the news cycle of late, whether Grohl’s promoting his new book or coming to the aid of a Seattle metalhead who caught a bullet confronting an Idaho gunman. The top of the year brought the postgrunge rockers’ danceready album, “Medicine at Midnight,” which
Grohl and the gang would support while serving as go-to arena reopeners in a post-lockdown world.
As one of the genre’s most reliable hit-makers, the enduring hard rockers have carved a niche as rock ’n’ roll ambassadors to music’s mainstream as guitar bands have thinned from the foreground in recent years. News that the Foo Fighters will be enshrined into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, making Grohl a two-time member after Nirvana’s 2014 induction, feels like a culmination, a salute to the band’s longevity and catalog of anthemic radio rockers.
It all started 27 years ago this month, six months after Kurt Cobain’s death brought Nirvana’s run to a heart-wrenching close. Grohl quietly hit Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios for a week of cathartic recording sessions, unsure exactly what would come of it.
“He always says that,” said producer Barrett Jones, the other guy in the room, “but I personally remember knowing that it was going to be released and that it would be huge (laughs). That’s the way I felt about it.”
Jones will be in attendance when the Foo Fighters take their place in the Rock Hall during a Cleveland ceremony simulcast on SiriusXM and airing on HBO at a later date, just like he was at Grohl’s side for the “whirlwind” Seattle sessions that became the Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut with Grohl playing all the instruments.
Grohl then recruited Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear as well as Nate Mendel (bass) and William Goldsmith (drums) to round out the lineup.
Lorli von Trapp Campbell
dies: The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family was famous for being depicted in the musical and movie “The Sound of Music,” has died. Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell, 90, died Oct. 17 in Vermont.
Campbell was born in Salzburg, Austria, the second daughter of Georg and Maria von Trapp and a younger half-sibling to the older von Trapp children who went on to be depicted in stage and film.
The family escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and performed concert tours throughout Europe and America. The family settled in Vermont in the early 1940s.
Campbell’s father and his first wife had seven children who were the basis for the singing family in the musical and film. They are all now deceased. Georg and Maria von Trapp, also deceased, had three more children, who were not depicted in the movie. Campbell’s siblings, Rosmarie von Trapp and Johannes von Trapp, live in Vermont.
Oct. 25 birthdays: Actor Marion Ross is 93. Actor Nancy Cartwright is 64. Actor Kevin Michael Richardson is 57. Comedian Samantha Bee is 52. Actor Adam Goldberg is 51. Actor Craig Robinson is 50. Actor Mehcad Brooks is
41. Actor Josh Henderson is 40. Singer Katy Perry is 37. Singer Ciara is 36. Actor Krista Marie Yu is 33.