Foo Fighters single most successful showing happened at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, where they went home with five Grammys. That year the Foos won in a category they never had before: best long-form music video. They earned that victory for their documentary, “Foo Fighters: Back And Forth,” which chronicled the band’s entire history up to that point. It also showed the recording process for their 2011 album “Wasting Light,” which was recorded at Dave Grohl’s home in Los Angeles.
Speaking of “Wasting Light,” it won for best rock album and was up for album of the year but lost to Adele’s “21.” That same year, the song “Walk” won two awards, one for best rock performance and the other for best rock song. The final Grammy that the band won that year was slightly unexpected. It came in the best hard rock/metal performance category, which included a field of heavy hitters (no pun intended), including Dream Theater, Mastodon, Megadeth, and Sum 41 (via Blabbermouth). Still, victory went to the Foo’s “White Limo,” a song that is far and away the heaviest track off of “Wasting Light” and gains a little extra hard rock and metal street-cred for featuring Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister in its music video.
