William Goldsmith

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Goldsmith in June 2000

William Goldsmith (born July 4, 1972 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American drummer who became known as the drummer for the bands Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters .

Career

Goldsmith started playing drums as a child, early influences included a. The Beatles , Led Zeppelin , Elvis Costello and the Attractions , Talking Heads and Keith Moon from The Who . Moon was one of Goldsmith's role models alongside John Lennon . While still in school he founded the bands, Screaming Hormones and 13. Later he founded the hardcore punk band Reason to Hate with his friend Jeremy Enigk . After graduating, he was invited by later Tupelo Honey drummer Greg Williamson to play in his band Positive Greed.

In 1992 Goldsmith was invited by bassist Nate Mendel and guitarist Dan Hoerner to play in the emocore band Sunny Day Real Estate. Goldsmith accepted the offer and recorded two albums with the band by 1995. After Sunny Day Real Estates broke up, Goldsmith was invited by Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer , to play in his band, Foo Fighters.

When Sunny Day Real Estate reunited in 1997, Goldsmith left the Foo Fighters. In 1998 he released the band's third studio album How It Feels To Be Something On , which was followed in 2000 by The Rising Tide . In 2001 the band broke up for the second time.

In 1999 he worked on the Replicants album Slickaphonics , an album that has little in common with Goldsmith's other bands due to its noise and jazz influences .

In 2001 Goldsmith founded the band The Fire Theft together with his SDRE colleagues Jeremy Enigk and Nate Mendel. The group is traded as the successor project Sunny Day Real Estates.

Goldsmith was also present at the Sunny Day Real Estates reunion in 2009. After the reunification tour in 2010, new studio material was announced.

Web links

Foo fighters
Studio albums

Foo Fighters (1995)  | The Color and the Shape (1997)  | There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)  | One by One (2002)  | In Your Honor (2005)  | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)  | Wasting Light (2011)  | Sonic Highways (2014)  | Concrete and Gold (2017)

Extended plays

DVD / EP (2003)  | Five Songs and a Cover (2005)  | Let It Die (2008)

Live albums

Skin and Bones (2006)

Compilation albums

Greatest Hits (2009)

Video albums

One by One (2002)  | Everywhere But Home (2003)  | Skin and Bones (2006)  | Skin and Bones & Live in Hyde Park (2006)  | Live at Wembley Stadium (2008)  | Greatest Hits (2009)  | Back and Forth (2011)

Singles
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Foo fighters
This Is a Call (1995)  | I'll Stick Around (1995)  | For All the Cows (1995)  | Big Me (1996)
The color and the shape
Monkey Wrench (1997)  | Everlong (1997)  | My Hero (1998)  | Walking After You (1998)
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Learn to Fly (1999)  | Breakout (2000)  | Next Year (2000)
One by one
All My Life (2002)  | Times Like These (2003)  | Low (2003)  | Have It All (2003)
In your honor
Best of You (2005)  | DOA (2005)  | Resolve (2005)  | No Way Back / Cold Day in the Sun (2006)
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
The Pretender (2007)  | Long Road to Ruin (2007)
Greatest hits
Wheels (2009)
Wasting light
Rope (2011)  | Walk (2011)  | Arlandria (2011)  | These Days (2011)  | Bridge Burning (2012)
Sonic Highways
Something from Nothing (2014)  | The Feast and the Famine (2014)  | Congregation (2014)  | What did I do? / God as My Witness (2014)
Concrete and gold
Run (2017)  | The Sky Is a Neighborhood (2017)  | The Line (2018)
personal data
SURNAME Goldsmith, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American drummer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington , United States