An interesting story comes out of the Foo Fighters’ sixth album, “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” which was released in late September.
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.”
“I was so moved,” Grohl told interviewer Terry Gross.
“To feel like something that I do can help someone in a situation like that ... I was really, genuinely blown away. It changed the way I look at what I do. To feel like your music is making a difference in someone’s life, it changes everything.”
Grohl wrote the miners a note and offered them concert tickets. The night before he met one of the miners in Sydney, Grohl wrote the song “Ballad of the Beaconsville Miners” and dedicated him on stage.
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