Jake Kiszka: the worst rock band name ever is…

In a new interview with Guitar Player, the six-string owner nei Greta Van Fleet Jake Kiszka he revealed what he thinks is the worst name ever for a band, and without fear he uttered two words. “Foo Fighters. I was talking to Dave Grohl about it and he told me how much he hated that name.”

The name Foo Fighters has its roots in the time of World War II.

With that name the pilots of British warplanes reported all those flying objects that they saw during their missions in the skies and which they could not identify.

When i Nirvana they disbanded after the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, Dave Grohl he wasn’t sure how much life his new musical project would have, so he called him Foo Fighters. In a 2014 interview with 60 Minutes Grohl explained it with candor and honesty: “It’s the stupidest band name ever. I called it Foo Fighters because I didn’t want people… At first I didn’t want to put my own spin on it. name. I didn’t want people to be like, ‘Oh, that’s the guy from Nirvana.’”

Dave Grohl he hoped to remain anonymous and to release the recordings in a limited edition under his name Foo Fightersbelieving that the name would suggest that the music was created by a group. The band’s frontman couldn’t even imagine that i Foo Fighters they would occupy the next thirty years of his life. The American musician also admitted that if he had known how far-reaching his decision would be, he might have considered it more carefully.