<P> After recording for There Is Nothing Left to Lose was completed, the band auditioned a number of potential guitarists, and eventually settled on Chris Shiflett, who performs with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and previously performed with California punk band No Use for a Name . Shiflett initially joined the band as touring guitarist, but achieved full - time status prior to the recording of the group's fourth album . </P> <P> In January 2000, Nate Mendel led a benefit concert in Hollywood for AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives with a speech by founder Christine Maggiore and free copies of her self - published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? Additionally, the band's official website featured a section devoted to Alive & Well, declaring their support and detailing its assertions . Sandra Thurman, then director of the Office of National AIDS Policy commented: </P> <P> For the Foo Fighters to be promoting this is extraordinarily irresponsible behavior . There is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community and it's quite unfortunate that a band reads one book and then adopts this theory . To say (that HIV does not cause AIDS) is akin to saying the world is flat . </P> <P> Footage of the concert, as well as two Foo Fighters songs ("Stacked Actors" and "Learn to Fly"), is featured in the HIV / AIDS denial documentary The Other Side of AIDS (2004)." Links and references to Alive & Well have since been removed from the bands website and no further mentions or shows of support have been made . </P>

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