Claim: Foo Fighters are a rock band.

David Eric Grohl -LRB- born January 14 , 1969 -RRB- is an American rock musician , multi-instrumentalist , singer , songwriter , director and producer . He is best known as the founder and frontman of the rock band Foo Fighters , of which he is the lead singer , one of three guitarists , and primary songwriter . He is also well known as the former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana .   Grohl is the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures . He additionally wrote all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late ! and Probot . He has been involved with the rock band Queens of the Stone Age many times throughout the past decade . He has performed as a session drummer for a variety of musicians , including Paul McCartney , Garbage , Killing Joke , Kristeen Young , Nine Inch Nails , David Bowie , The Prodigy , Slash , Iggy Pop , Juliette and the Licks , Tenacious D , RDGLDGRN , Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Lemmy , Stevie Nicks , Zac Brown Band and Ghost .