I’ll Stick Around – Foo Fighters (1995)

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Additional information about this, Foo Fighters vinyl art.

Foo Fighters – The Artist/s

Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the suicide of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from “Foo fighter”, a nickname coined by Allied aircraft pilots for UFOs and other aerial phenomena they reported seeing. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters’ 1995 debut album Foo Fighters, which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear to complete the lineup.

I’ll Stick Around – The Song

‘I’ll Stick Around’ is the second single released by the Foo Fighters from their 1995 self titled debut album Foo Fighters. The video for this song was the first Foo Fighters music video and was directed by Jerry Casale, who was a member of and directed videos for Devo. Casale said he was chosen due to Devo’s well-known surreal music videos, which would fit Grohl’s request for a “non-video video”, done for just $60,000.  The video shows the band performing the song in a room with a paper background while lights strobe and a giant spore floats around them (the spore, described by Casale as “Foo Ball”, was inspired by the foo fighter phenomenon that named the band, and its original conception was a “bloated, charred, inflated girl representing Courtney”, but as Grohl’s management vetoed the idea, it was replaced by an “3D HIV virus based on medical models from Scientific America (sic) magazine”). This is interspersed with footage of Dave Grohl eating chess pieces (an idea by the singer himself, done with “frame by frame stop-action animation”) and brushing his teeth with what appears to be a switchblade.

The FF Logo – The Shape

Modelled into the silhouette of the bands FF Logo. The term “foo fighter” was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theatres of operations.

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