2006-06-13 15:12:51 · 8 answers · asked by Panther 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
They are named after the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena.
2006-06-13 15:16:20 · answer #1 · answered by sft2hrdtco 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If what I've heard is true, the term "foo fighter" was orignally used by Air Force pilots after WWII reffering to inexplicable blips or targets on their radar. In other words, pilot jargon for UFO.
2006-06-13 15:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by stork5100 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David Grohl was fascinated by the Roswell incident and sci-fi in general. He decided to name his new project after a slang expression used in World War II by US pilots to describe the alien-looking fireballs they sometimes saw over Germany (specifically, betueen Hagenau in Alsace-Lorraine and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in the Rhine Valley). Foo is a mutation of the French word for fire, "fue". Sources: the band's official website and an NME biography
2006-06-13 15:17:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from some air force pilots who said that they engaged fights against ufo. They were called "foo fighters".
2006-06-13 15:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Espectacularrrrr! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drummer from the Foo fighters is Taylor Hawkins. purely band i comprehend if he became in became called "Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders". Edits: additionally Sexual Chocolate and Sylvia because of the fact the question replaced.... the unique drummer is William Goldsmith who became with Sunny Day actual components
2016-12-08 09:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Foo Fighters were military fighters in WWII, I thgink they were Japanese.
2006-06-13 15:16:32 · answer #6 · answered by Beccawho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from foo
2006-06-13 15:15:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where all great names came from, it came from a great imagination.
2006-06-13 15:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Kipper 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋