As well as his most famous bands, Dave has taken on guest roles for a number of other successful music outfits. This includes playing drums for Queens of the Stone Age and taking on the role of the Devil for Tenacious D anthem tribute. In , he temporarily stepped in as drummer for band Cage the Elephant after permanent member Jared Champion burst his appendix.
These take into account his earnings through album sales, live performances, and property portfolio. He was previously married to Jennifer Youngblood from , but the pair split due to infidelity. Dave returned to the White House four years later to interview him for the Sonic Highways documentary series. What a nice man. However, Dave maintains that only one solitary snare hit from a lengthy drum track he taped with producer Butch Vig actually made it on to the track. Given that Dave has played fundraising rallies in the U.
I am ashamed of our president. I feel apologetic for it when I travel. Los Angeles alt-punks Kills Birds deliver on their soaring promise with the refinement, restlessness and rage of Married…. Honestly, in that last year, you would wake up every day not knowing what was going to happen next. We were on shaky ground for a lot of reasons, the biggest being that the sudden rise to fame in that band was traumatic.
We had shunned mainstream commercial appeal and were perfectly happy in our world behind the fucking shadows. Then we become one of them. How do you fucking process that? There was a lot of chaos within and outside the band.
Not at all. It was just three people who wound up writing songs, touring around in a van. When it comes to things that are deeply personal, I choose to share with the ones closest to me.
If my daughters ask me questions about Nirvana, I will answer every one of those questions. When you became a front man in your own band, did you start to see Kurt in a different light? I learned a lot of lessons in Nirvana that I applied to being the singer of Foo Fighters, about what to do and what not to do. Publishing is a good example. We have a Bernie Sanders—style formula for publishing on every song. The history of rock and roll is filled with that same old story over and over again.
To me, the best idea was to nip it in the bud and have this formula for everything. How did you pull that off? I sat and made a cup of coffee. I can have a cup of coffee today. I got in my car to take a drive. Beautiful day. It was then I realized no matter how good or bad a day, I wanted to be alive to experience it. That becomes your divining rod. I just want to get to tomorrow. I just want to fucking make it one more day. The concept of starting over is a recurring theme.
You hit a crossroads and you have to steer your path. I had nowhere to live. I was going through a divorce. Pat was fucking leaving the band. The drummer had fucking quit.
His dog was pissing on me every night in my bed. I was ready to snap. I had these journals; I would list each of these problems individually. If I focus on one at a time, maybe I could solve these problems. Maybe I can make it through. I hit things one at a time. The biggest band in the world shatters, and you land on your feet with a great album. Do you listen to that self-titled record much? I listened to it not too long ago. Part of it has to do with the acoustic environment, and part of it has to do with the urgency.
The live room, the tracking room, is all stone and marble. Most people would consider that too harsh of an acoustic environment. We had six days, and I had 14 songs. So I could spend maybe two hours on a song.
So within like an hour and 15 minutes, I was done with the instrumental track. And I had to do, like, four a day. It was just to fucking record these songs on a track. You have recorded in basements and garages, in professional and personal studios. The magic of that old warehouse in an industrial complex in Los Angeles.
It makes no sense why the room sounds the way it does. It just does. I think the record company wanted us to be close so they could keep an eye on us. Because we were nobody. You say no. Or you take it and pull a rock-and-roll swindle.
We were very familiar with the Sex Pistols story. I think we did the right thing. We signed with the label they were on. They blazed the trail. They were the ones that made it safe for a band like us to get a record deal. Scream busted up, followed by Nirvana. I almost see Foo Fighters as an afterlife for you. Has there been much turbulence? You reach a point where you cannot break up. What the fuck you going to do that for? If you look at the foundations of this band, we were four people who came from bands that ended prematurely.
Their singer, Jeremy Enigk, found God, and the band shut down. I thought, They play good together. Which we did. We threw it together almost the same way you put a band together in high school. Just the thought of sitting at a drum stool broke my heart without Kurt being there.
They paved the way for other bands, such as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, to become well-known national acts. The pressures that came with all of that success weighed heavily on the group, especially Cobain who sank deeper into drug abuse. Outside of the band, Grohl put together a solo project, recording a few tracks for a cassette-only release called Pocketwatch. The band made one more studio album together, In Utero On April 6, , Cobain killed himself at his home.
After Nirvana, Grohl formed the Foo Fighters. Initially, he was the entire band for its self-titled debut album, playing most of the instruments, singing the vocals and using songs he had written while still with Nirvana. By this time, Goldsmith had quit and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins. For a short time, Franz Stahl from Scream filled in for Smear after he had left the band. The next year the entire recording won for Best Rock Album. Their album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace , came out in the fall of The band went on an extensive tour to promote the record.
Over the years, Grohl has recorded with other bands, including Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious D, but he continues to circle back to the Foo Fighters. Outside of music, Grohl is a devoted father and husband.
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