Dave Grohl says Foo Fighters are taking a break
NEW YORK (AP) - Dave Grohl says his band Foo Fighters is officially taking a break.
Grohl sent an open letter Tuesday, calling the band "my life," but noting "it's a good thing for all of us to go away for a while."
Grohl told fans Saturday at the Global Citizen Festival he didn't know when the band would play together again, and affirmed that in the letter.
He created Foo Fighters in 1994 after his time as the drummer in Nirvana, recording the band's self-titled debut before inviting other members to join. The band has been one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring critical and commercial successes, winning 11 Grammys, including five earlier this year.
Grohl says he's now focused on his forthcoming Sound City documentary and album.
Grohl sent an open letter Tuesday, calling the band "my life," but noting "it's a good thing for all of us to go away for a while."
Grohl told fans Saturday at the Global Citizen Festival he didn't know when the band would play together again, and affirmed that in the letter.
He created Foo Fighters in 1994 after his time as the drummer in Nirvana, recording the band's self-titled debut before inviting other members to join. The band has been one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring critical and commercial successes, winning 11 Grammys, including five earlier this year.
Grohl says he's now focused on his forthcoming Sound City documentary and album.
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Led Zeppelin getting back together with the dave as the drummer? Dave has worked with both jimmy page and john paul jones. so it wouldnt surprise me.
About time?  I can't believe the amount of work you push out.  I'm a big Nirvana fan but just started to get into the acoustic stuff I've found on line by you.  Take your life back...something tells me you'll come back around when you need to. Â
The Foo Fighters are still around??
I think it's good to take a rest and do other things with your life. I'm not a huge Foo fan, but I like Dave. I was really into Nirvana only cause I grew with those kids in Scaberdeen and personally knew two of them. At any rate, I wish nothing but the best for Dave and his band mates. I've moved beyond the rock theme in my life or simply outgrew it a decade ago. However it's always fun to rewind once in awhile and rock the hell out.
Timing for Them Crooked Vultures? I can only hope.
I hope the Foo's come back as a band, but if they don't whatever Dave does will be great!
Everything Dave Grohl touches turns into a gold in my opinion. I am excited to see what project he comes up with next.Â
This is disappointing. :(
Curious timing. I guess there is no point to touring or recording as much when The Feds are going to start taking 40% on Jan 1st. And investment income getting the ol' reach-around as well. Wonder how that plays out for the royalty dependent?
 @Sid Vishess Musician Dave Grohl has an estimated worth of $225 million dollars.Â
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 @Sid Vishess No point? there's 60% of a point at least. Talented artistic people would work for free, getting rich from it is just a bonus.
 @Sid Vishess It all depends. Things get tricky in the rock and roll credit world. A member of a major rock band can file as an employee if he has no writing credits on the songs played, or if the band as a whole isn't holding the publishing rights.
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There is money flowing in from several different directions to a labeled band - cd/mp3/Itunes percentages are dispersed by the label, so the tax would be on the net. If the band doesn't produce a tour themselves, then they are paid a salary by the label, and it is taxed as such - unless the contract stipulates points on the take - door, concessions , etc. - then there is capital gains tax on the points received.Â
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Also, labels advance internal credit lines for homes, cars, equipment, production costs, et all. So that has to be assessed as well. In which case part of the repayment to the label is treated as a loan - if the lawyer has done the job right - otherwise they pay for the gross net received AND the return of the advance to the labels.
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 @Audio Cat Thanks for the info. Now that cap gains are gonna go to almost 40% for the top earners... ouch. ouch.,.. ouch...
 @Sid Vishess  @Audio Cat Taxes were very high in the 40's, 50's, and 60's, and the economy was pretty good back then. Sky-is-falling is getting pretty old..
 @Sid Vishess  @Audio Cat Isn't that like. for single earners making more than 250,000. Next years Fiscal cliff tax increases, slated to increase revenue by 540,000 Billion. Most of on the backs of high End tax payers. 20,000 pays an added 400 dollars a year 100,000 a year couple pays an extra 3 grand. People who exceed that pay lots more.It reminds me of the person who lets the car roll down the hill, because they didn't set the brake. Everybody wants tax exemptions(mortgage deductions) social security part B Free Education for Immigrant children Obama Care, Drivers license handbooks in 17 languages, 1000 miles of Bike lanes per city.300 hundred new city buses a year.5000 new state vehicles per year.Cost of living increases for everyone on on State and Federal  payrolls.16 Aluminum traffic lights at every intersection. Handicapped access mandated everywhere whether they need it or not. You get the point, If you really want all that stuff and more. SOMEBODY is going to end up paying for it.So we have 2 choices decide what to cut and when to cut it!! Or Bite the Bullet and pay for all these optional "investments'. Since the special interests seem to have control, I would say we are all going to end up paying until someone has the gonads and the "Bully Pulpit" to reduce the flow of funds. Best of luck with that one. If Congress rejiggers the AMT then the  take will be somewhat less than 540,000 Billion. With a 10% cut in Federal spending it will still take 8 years to pay off the principal so we won't be mortgaged to China. We should sell all our mothballed Oil burning aircraft carriers to China Japan Tiawan and Australia, with attractive financing. Then after hell breaks loose we sink them all with our new 3 Billion dollar Stealth Railgun Battleship. Include supplies of carrier based F-15s and FA 18s. By then we will have F22/35s that will be pilotless. This will create full employment at shipyards foundries scrap yards. Then after everyone is EMPed back to the stone age we can sell them replacement power grid components.
Considering how popular Nirvana was, I'm surprised that Foo Fighters made it this long and this sucessful. Just how it is in music, there's always a new beginning after an end.
 @Zoso I'm not. Dave is a great guy, and a talented musician. He also had the smarts to pick other talented people to be in with him.Â
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Krist however, did not. Sweet 75 was a disaster. And lasted about as long as a plane crash.
 @Audio Cat I should say I was surprised. Yeah, I didn't realize how much talent was behind him until a while back. And the fact that he could play behind Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, ect. and play guitar, write, ect. yeah, that just proved there sure was somebody else than just a drummer behind Kurt. He is a pretty cool guy. I even remember his few appearances on Almost Live! throughout the 90's and did a great job there.
I love this band, way more than nirvana and I grew up as a teen listening to nirvana
 @northwestsurfer Nirvana was way better in my opinion, but that just it, My opinion.