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Word: jamfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Grohl's hyperactivity and brashness onstage prove that he has come a long way from his Nirvana days as the shy one behind both the drum kit and Kurt Cobain's immense shadow. Though Grohl hardly revealed his face from behind his shaggy layers during the 80-minute jamfest, there was no question that this was his show. It was his drum kit raised high on a platform above the stage. It was he who dove into the crowd and returned onstage, not with a pretty young groupie, but with a decidedly troll-like looking man of at least...

Author: By Stacy A. Porter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOO | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...Nirvana on the group's legendary album, Nevermind, and became known as the "cheerful" member of the band. His mutually antagonistic relationship with Kurt Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, has been well documented. A year after Cobain's suicide, Grohl released the Foo Fighters' first album-a guitar-heavy jamfest for which he wrote all the material, played all the instruments, and sang. The band, named for the term for UFOs seen by American pilots flying over Europe during World War II, came into its own with 1997's softer, more intricate album The Colour and the Shape, which included...

Author: By Stacy A. Porter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Foo Fighting: A preview of the upcoming Foo Fighters concert | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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