An interesting story comes out of the Foo Fighters’ sixth album, “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” which was released in late September.
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Band leader Dave Grohl — formerly the drummer of grunge band Nirvana — formed the Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994.
During a recent NPR interview, Grohl discussed the instrumental “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners,” which appears on the album.
He wrote it for two miners who, while trapped underground in an Australia mine collapse, asked rescuers to send down an iPod loaded with the Foo Fighters last album, “In Your Honor.”





