In 2013, Grohl produced and directed the documentary Sound City, about the history of the famed Sound City Studios recording studios in Van Nuys. [142] Grohl wrote an instrumental piece for the meeting, which he pledged to include on the band's next album. But you live and you learn. In 1992 Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne recruited Dave to drum on his King Buzzo EP. I heard the drums. The track represented a new beginning for Dave after the dark days following Kurts death. In 1997, the band released their second album, "The Colour and the Shape," which contained the instantly iconic single "Everlong." In 2021, Grohl released an autobiography, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. [81] Most recently, he recorded all the drums on Juliette and the Licks's 2006 album Four on the Floor[82] and the song "For Us" from Pete Yorn's 2006 album Nightcrawler. He left Foo Fighters in 1997, before rejoining as a touring guitarist in 2005, and has been a full-time member since 2010. [106] The videos of the drum battle received tens of millions of views.[107][108]. Between October 26, 2002, and March 1, 2003, Grohl was in the number one spot on the Modern rock charts for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups. More recently, in 2018, he rounded up a $333.30 bar bill at infamous Los Angeles rocknroll watering hole the Rainbow Bar And Grill to the more satanic total of $666.30. On October 23, 2010, Grohl performed with Tenacious D at BlizzCon. [147], Grohl is an advocate for gun control. We'd meet in the middle sometimes with Bowie and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Foo Fighters frontman and consummate nice guyDave Grohl has been married to his wife Jordyn Blum since 2003 a lifetime in the world of rock and roll and the pair have three daughters. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. What a nice man. She was the inspiration behind the music project's first single, the song "This Is A Call." Later in 1994, Grohl played drums on two tracks for Mike Watt's Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. It produced several hit singles, including "Everlong", "My Hero", and "Monkey Wrench". [112], On 25 June 2022 Grohl duetted with Paul McCartney when he headlined the Glastonbury Festival. After touring for the self-titled album for more than a year, Grohl returned home and began work on the soundtrack to the 1997 movie Touch. [17] Mission Impossible rebranded themselves Fast before breaking up, after which Grohl joined the hardcore punk band Dain Bramage in December 1985. [84] Grohl joined McCartney's band singing backup vocals and playing guitar on "Band on the Run" and drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "I Saw Her Standing There". The friendship between the two bands resulted in Grohl and Taylor Hawkins being asked to induct Queen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. [2][1] In 2022, Grohl and the Foo Fighters starred as themselves in the comedy horror film Studio 666. Dave returned to the White House four years later to interview him for the Sonic Highways documentary series. Grohl said he felt the Greatest Hits was too early and "can look like an obituary". In 1992, he played drums on Buzz Osborne's Kiss-styled solo-EP King Buzzo, where he was credited as Dale Nixon, a pseudonym that Greg Ginn adopted to play bass on Black Flag's My War. The Foo Fighters song Friend Of A Friend (originally recorded by Dave for his Pocketwatch cassette album) on 2005s In Your Honor details his memories of that period, with lyrics such as 'he plays an old guitar with a coin found by the phone' inspired by Kurt. We collect and tell stories of people from all around the world. Grohl performed all of the instruments and vocals himself, save for vocals from Veruca Salt singer Louise Post on the title track, keyboards by Barrett Jones (who also co-produced the record) on one track, and vocals and guitar by X's John Doe on "This Loving Thing (Lynn's Song)". Guitarist Pat Smear was close friends with Youngblood. It was there that he turned his basement into a recording studio where the 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded. Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters in 2000. [128], Inspired by California Jam,[129] to celebrate the release of Foo Fighters' ninth studio album Concrete and Gold and begin their North American tour, Cal Jam 17, a music festival curated by Grohl and Foo Fighters, was held from October 67, 2017 at Glen Helen Amphitheater,[130][131][132][133][134] with 27,800 attendees, 3,100 campers, and nine arrests. A roadway in downtown Warren named "David Grohl Alley" has been dedicated to him with murals by local artists. It was complete and not open to outside tampering."[49]. This was me finally saying goodbye to my past.. It was during the couple's 1994 honeymoon in Dublin, Ireland that the debut track was written, reportedNME. In the initial days following the collapse, one of the men requested an iPod with the Foo Fighters album In Your Honor to be sent to them. [88] The trio performed their first show together on August 9, 2009, at Metro in Chicago. Naming his label was easy: "I chose Roswell Records," he explained, paying homage to arguably the most famous UFO incident in New Mexico. His primary recording guitar is an original cherry red Gibson Trini Lopez Standard that he bought in the early 1990s because he liked the look of the diamond-shaped sound holes. Dave Grohl with his Ex-Wife (Jennifer Leigh Youngblood) Initially, the plan was to release the album on Sub Pop, but the band received a great deal of interest based on the demos. [61] He lent it again in 2021 to Darin Wall, of the Seattle metal band Greyhawk, after Wall was shot in the leg. He also has an original Pelham blue Trini Lopez from 1965 which he bought from a doctor in the UK. [117] On February 6, 2010, he appeared as a middle-aged punk rock drummer reuniting the group "Crisis of Conformity" (fronted by Fred Armisen) after 25 years in a skit later on in the episode. [27] Osborne informed him that Nirvana was looking for a drummer and gave Grohl the phone numbers of Cobain and Novoselic, who invited Grohl to Seattle to audition. [72], During the early 2000s, Grohl spent time in his basement studio writing and recording a number of songs for a metal project. [8][9] In addition to being an award-winning journalist, James had also served as the special assistant to Senator Robert Taft Jr. and was described as "a talented political observer who possessed the ability to call every major election with uncanny accuracy". It made me want to become a drummer. WebWhen Love Comes Knocking | 5 Book Sweet and Swoony Contemporary Romance Collection - By Jennifer Youngblood. Grohl continued that as the song's melody came together, he began to write the lyrics to match the feeling of the tune. Dave Grohl and Pat Smear of the Foo Fighters performing in San Bernardino. In 2000, he played drums and sang on a track, "Goodbye Lament", from Tony Iommi's album Iommi. He's been in the public eye since the 90s, exploding onto the scene with Nevermind, and in 2020 went viral twice with his drum battle against Nandi Bushell and his appearance on the BBC's COVID-19 fundraiser with some of music's biggest names performing Times Like These. The second Foo Fighters album, The Colour and the Shape, was released in May 1997 and cemented Foo Fighters as a staple of rock radio. We weren't ready to get married,"he once told Melody Maker (via NME). In early 1995, Grohl and Foo Fighters played their first US tour, the Ring Spiel Tour both opening for Watt and playing with Eddie Vedder as Watt's supporting band. Little is known about Youngblood, and she has kept a low profile for the last 26 years. No, Arnold Schwarzenegger didnt make a cameo appearance on Smells Like Teen Spirit, but the Tama Black Beauty snare drum Dave Grohl used to record the song, hired from Drum Doctors on Sherman Way in Los Angeles, was nicknamed The Terminator. That painful schism in Here we present 20 lesser-known facts about the Foos frontman that even the most dedicated superfan might not know. Cobain admitted in a late 1993 MTV interview that he initially thought the riff was "kind of boneheaded", but was gratified at how the song developed (a process captured in part in a demo on the Nirvana box set With the Lights Out). They were married in 1994 and got divorced in 1997. [153] On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum. Kurts indie scene friends in Olympia mockingly christened him The Rocker. The first pressing of There Is Nothing Left To Lose actually came with a stick-on transfer of the same tattoo. I was like, 'What, that little dude and that big motherfucker? Cobain said that he was excited at the possibility of having Novoselic and Grohl contribute more to the band's songwriting. He added, "One of the advantages of finishing the record before we had a new label was that it was purely our creation. Grohl also helped pay tribute to McCartney at the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors along with No Doubt, Norah Jones, Steven Tyler, James Taylor, and Mavis Staples. The author of the photo was photographer Jennifer Youngblood, Grohl's first wife. The Foo Fighters frontman met his second wife while acting as Taylor Hawkins wingman on a date at the Sunset Marquis hotel in Los Angeles in 2001. [150], Grohl supported Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign and performed "My Hero" at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. A music video was filmed for the song "Money" while Grohl was with Nirvana on their 1994 European tour, footage of Grohl was filmed later and included. [34], During the sessions for In Utero, Nirvana decided to re-record "Color Pictures of a Marigold" and released this version as a B-side on the "Heart-Shaped Box" single, titled simply "Marigold". It just seemed that everything I did wasn't good enough for him, or anyone else". "It was maybe the closest the band actually ever really did come to breaking up but then didn't!" It wasn't until 2001 that Grohl met the love of his [75] The move surprised some Nirvana fans, given that Nirvana had been accused of plagiarizing the opening riff of "Come as You Are" from Killing Joke's 1984 song "Eighties". [158] He said that his ears are "still tuned in to certain frequencies, meaning [he's] still able to pick up on minute sonic detailseven down to the slightest differences between cymbal crashes". "[149] He contributed to a 2009 anti-drug video for the BBC. He has appeared with Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures, Mick Jagger, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Grohl passed the audition and soon joined the band. 1.[103]. ", "Full Cast and Credits for Backbeat (1994)", "The Time Mike Watt, Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder Jammed Econo", "David Bowie: Spectacular and Acclaimed 50th Birthday Concert to Air as a Television Pay Per View Event", Dave Grohl Preps A 'Death Metal Supernatural' With Probot, "Joe Strummer Tribute-London Calling(2003 Grammys)", "Juliette Lewis teams up with Dave Grohl", "Steven Tyler, Dave Grohl Honor McCartney at Kennedy Center", "The view from my throne: my first full set with Tenacious D at BlizzCon Saturday night. [37] Two decades later, on April 10, 2014, Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. In order to be considered for the position, Grohl lied about his age, claiming he was older. During the initial sessions for Foo Fighters' second album, tension emerged between Grohl and drummer William Goldsmith. [citation needed] During a break between tours, the band entered the studio and recorded a cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park". This article is about the American musician. That tattoo was inked by Londoner Lal Hardy, whos also tattooed Liam Gallagher and TV presenter Dermot OLeary among others, in his Muswell Hill studio. Grohl began directing Foo Fighters music videos in 1997 and released his debut documentary, Sound City, in 2013. [60] In 2016, Grohl lent his throne to Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses after Rose broke his foot. His mother decided he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because his cannabis use was lowering his grades. CP Dave Grohl before live Toronto show On divorcing his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood: I was 25, my wife was even younger. During the early 90s, Grohl dated photographer Jennifer Youngblood. But you live and you learn.". Featuring collaborations with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Norah Jones, the album was a departure from previous efforts, and included one rock and one acoustic disc. In the few times that Grohl has spoken publicly about his ex-wife (and one-time "X-Files" co-star), he tends to keep it brief, acknowledging his own mistakes and never saying a word against her. In 2020 Scott exhumed another Mission Impossible track, Now Im Alone, for the soundtrack companion to his excellent 2014 DC punk documentary Salad Days. He also performed drums for their 2012 album Rize of the Fenix. It was really the first time I ever heard a drummer in the forefront of the band, he recalled. [163], Grohl's first solo Rolling Stone cover story was published on December 4, 2014.[164]. The posthumous Michael Jackson album, Michael, lists Dave Grohl as a guest drummer on a track called (I Cant Make It) Another Day, alongside Lenny Kravitz. They separated in December 1996 and divorced in 1997. [93], Grohl directed a documentary entitled Sound City which is about the Van Nuys studio of the same name where Nevermind was recorded that shut down its music operations in 2011. Heavier than heaven: The biography of Kurt Cobain. Foo Fighters fans will know that the cover of the bands third album, There Is Nothing Left To Lose, features a photograph of a tattoo of the bands FF logo on the back of Daves neck. After Cobains death, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl looked to music for peace. On November 23, 2002, Grohl achieved a historical milestone by replacing himself on the top of the Billboard modern rock chart, when "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana was replaced by "All My Life" by Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl is one of the most famous and influential musicians in the business, but many know nothing about his first marriage to Jennifer Youngblood. He also released the music cassette Pocketwatch under the pseudonym Late! "So because of the emotional place I was in I started writing the lyrics to this song and they come from a real place," he shared. During downtime on a trip to Brazil in January 1993, Nirvana booked a recording session to demo some new material for the follow-up to the hugely successful Nevermind. [83], In June 2008, Grohl was Paul McCartney's special guest for a concert at the Anfield football stadium in Liverpool, in one of the central events of the English city's year as European Capital of Culture. It was recorded during a three-month period between March 2007 and June 2007, and its release was preceded by the first single "The Pretender" on September 17. Grohl described the recording experience as "intoxicating at times" because the band members were left completely to their own devices. Its also rumoured, though has never been officially confirmed, that Dave had played live with Tobias Forges band. Youngblood's contribution to Foo Fighter's first album is greater. You all are fucking nerds! It was a weird scene they might as well have been fucking Mormons.. Grohl completed the recording in two weeks, and immediately joined Foo Fighters to work on their follow-up. [90][91], Also in 2010, Grohl helped write and performed on drums for "Watch This" with guitarist Slash and Duff McKagan on Slash's self-titled album that also included many other famous artists. In Grohl's initial months in Olympia,[33] Cobain overheard him working on a song called "Color Pictures of a Marigold", and the two subsequently worked on it together. On the 2nd of August 2003, he married Jordyn Blum and had three children; Violet Maye, Harper Willow, and Ophelia Saint. He wakes up at 5am every day. CROSS, C. H. A. R. L. E. S. R. (2019). I was always so excited to get there, and I was always bummed when it closed. He said: The verse is just [expletive], its nothing, I wrote it in a bathroom, but the chorus on the other hand means a lot to me. [85] Grohl also performed with McCartney at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, again playing drums on "I Saw Her Standing There". [127], In 2021, Grohl directed What Drives Us, a feature-length documentary on van touring. He dropped out of high school to play with the hardcore group Scream before auditioning for Nirvana. Jordyn, mother to Daves three daughters, remains very much married to the silver-tongued romantic. We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out. On November 10, 2014, Foo Fighters released their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, which reached number two in the United States. He is the founder of the rock band Foo Fighters, in which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. [54] The Medicine at Midnight tour was cancelled following the death of Hawkins on March 25, 2022. Many don't know that Jordyn Blum is Grohl's second wife, and that he was married to Jennifer Youngblood for over three years, and the end of their relationship shook the Foo Fighters. In the end, performing as Nameless, the group blasted through three covers The Whos Squeezebox, Chuck Berrys Johnny B. Goode and Kenny Loggins Footloose but lost out on the day to senior class rockers Three For The Road. [65] The tenth Foo Fighters studio album, Medicine at Midnight, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The two got married in 1994 but divorced later in 1997. Grohl's interest in science fiction led to the band's name referencing the slang term given to UFOs in World War II so it is only fitting that the first visual associated with the group would capture the theme. They even took a leap off stage and onto the big screen with the horror comedy "Studio 666" in 2022, per New York Post. Absolutely adorable. Dave Grohl, the frontman of the Foo Fighters and a consummate lovely guy, has been married to Jordyn Blum since 2003. Foo Fighters covered Killing Joke's "Requiem" during the late 1990s, and were even joined by Killing Joke singer Jaz Coleman for a performance of the song at a show in New Zealand in 2003. Jennifer is either in her early 60s or late 5os. [143] The song, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners", appears on Foo Fighters' 2007 release Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and features Kaki King. Asked to pinpoint one album that inspired him to begin playing drums, Dave selected Rushs classic 2112, an album he was introduced to at age nine by his cousin Trip, while on a family visit to Chicago. It was chaos, Dave recalled. [48] It was recorded following the departure from Capitol and their former president Gary Gersh. We rushed into it, and we rushed out of it."[52]. who divorced photographer Jennifer Youngblood in 1997. Grohl is an advocate for LGBT rights. I didn't fuck her, did I?'". In September, the all-star covers album by the Alice Cooper-led Hollywood Vampires supergroup was released and features Grohl playing drums on the medley "One/Jump Into the Fire". After four months in the studio, with the sessions finished, Grohl accepted an invitation to join Queens of the Stone Age and helped them to record their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Two [73][74], Also in 2003, Grohl stepped behind the kit to perform on Killing Joke's second self-titled album. Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl. [102] Grohl also produced Zac Brown Band's EP The Grohl Sessions, Vol. [5] When Freak Baby fired its bass player and reshuffled its lineup, Grohl switched to drums. The primary reason was exhaustion from touring, as Smear was nearly 40 years old and did not want to return to the strenuous life of the road. The effort became their fourth album, One by One. The project was released in 2004 under the nickname Probot. There were other factors as well: Grohls divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, with whom Smear was a close friend, and the way Grohl dictated the band also played into his decision. 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While the hit "Everlong" came about through an emotional breakup, Foo Fighters' first single "This Is A Call" was also linked to a notable time in Dave Grohl's relationship with Jennifer Youngblood. "[148], In a 2008 interview, Grohl said he had never taken cocaine, heroin, or speed, and that he had stopped smoking cannabis and taking LSD at the age of 20. Grohl became the drummer for Nirvana after Scream broke up in 1990. Nirvana We believe that every person's story is important as it provides our community with an opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, share their hopes and dreams. "[20], As a teenager in DC, Grohl briefly contemplated joining shock-rockers Gwar, who were looking for a drummer. Grohl uses D'Addario 0.11-0.49 gauge strings, but his playing style is so aggressive that he uses a 0.42 gauge for the A string and a 0.60 gauge for the low E string. But how much do actually you know about The Nicest Man In Rock? [citation needed] Grohl later expressed regret, and said that "there were a lot of reasons it didn't work out, but there was also a part of me that was like, you know, I don't know if I'm finished playing the drums yet".[47]. [62][63] On November 3, Foo Fighters performed in Cesena, where Grohl invited some "Rockin' 1000" members onto the stage to perform with the band. The EP also featured Rami Jaffee, Jim Rota and Oliver Roman. The breakup, in addition to touring fatigue and Grohl's overall control of the group, led Pat Smear to leave theFoo Fighters despite a big rise in the band's popularity, per Far Out. Grohl particularly points to the song's chorus holding heavy personal meaning. Listen to 'Rescued' From the Album 'But Here We Are' Available June 2 Pre-order link in bio. They eventually made up their differences, and Smear rejoined the Foo Fighters in 2005. After a brief tour through North America, Britain and Japan with the band[11] and feeling rejuvenated by the effort, Grohl recalled the other band members to completely re-record their album at his studio in Virginia. In November, Grohl took a brief turn with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, including a performance on Saturday Night Live. At the age of 12, he began learning to play guitar. A mini documentary accompanied it. After Nirvana disbanded following the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain in April 1994, Grohl formed Foo Fighters as a one-man project. For the musician, the image and branding came naturally despite being formed during a tumultuous time. It would have been better had we not got married. Dave was earlier married to Jennifer Youngblood, whom he divorced in 1997. ", During avirtual set atOates Song Fest 7908, Grohl recountedhow the song "Everlong" came together, seemingly hinting that Youngblood was the inspiration. However, by then, Pearl Jam had already settled on ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, and Grohl had other solo plans. Dave Grohl married photographer, Jennifer Leigh Youngblood in 1994 but divorced in December 1997. Foo Fighters have always been open about their close ties with one another. Quantity. [101], On November 6, 2013, Grohl played drums at the 2013 CMA Awards replacing drummer Chris Fryar for Country Music band Zac Brown Band. Musician Dave Grohl formed his first band at age 10. Dave played his first gig with Nirvana at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, Washington, on October 11, 1990. Grohl played rhythm guitar for the song "If You Have Ghosts" (a cover of a Roky Erickson song), and drums on "I'm a Marionette" (an ABBA cover) as well as "Waiting for the Night" (a Depeche Mode cover). [38], Following Cobain's death in April 1994, Grohl retreated, unsure what to do. Grohl directed the Foo Fighters music videos for "Monkey Wrench" (1997), "My Hero" (1998), "All My Life" (2002), "White Limo" (2011), and "Rope" (2011), as well as all the music videos from the Sonic Highways and Concrete and Gold era. Having cut their teeth at backyard parties, in 1984 the quintet put their name forward to play Thomas Jefferson High Schools annual talent contest or, rather, they would have done had they decided upon a name yet. The first band in which Dave played drums was Washington, D.C. hardcore outfit Mission Impossible, born from the ashes of Freak Baby, in which he played guitar. In mid-2010, Grohl added his name to the list of contributing rock star voice cameos for Cartoon Network's heavy metal parody/tribute show, Metalocalypse. That's Nirvana? Grohl and Foo Fighters released their fifth album In Your Honor on June 14, 2005. This was me finally saying goodbye to my past., Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters at the 16th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, in 2001. It ain't easy being young, but that stuff doesn't make it any easier. [53], Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light, was released on April 12, 2011. Very little is known about how Youngblood and Grohl met, but they married in 1994, and the musician explained that they were very young when they married. [2][1] Grohl developed a thrash metal record for a fictional band named Dream Widow (who self-destructed 25 years ago), as developed for a horror-comedy movie titled Studio 666. Many of Grohl's early influences were at the 9:30 Club, a music venue in Washington, D.C. Expect a full album from the Foos guitarist later this year A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters have endured recently, 11th album But Here We Are arrives in June. Stahl was fired prior to recording of Foo Fighters' third album[11] and was replaced by touring guitarist Chris Shiflett, who later became a full-fledged member during the recording of One by One. "This is exactly what makes Dave amazing," notes Igor Avidon, a self-described Dave superfan who runs an agency by day. During a Toronto stop on their 1987 tour, Grohl played drums for Iggy Pop at a CD release party held at famed club the El Mocambo. On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum. Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl in 1991. Foo Fighters' sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released on September 25, 2007. The couple met two years prior [109] This continued in 2021 and 2022. He voiced the controversial Syrian dictator, Abdule Malik in the season 3 finale, Doublebookedklok. I promise [Foo Fighters will] see you soon". WebBirthday: January 14, 1969 ( Capricorn) Born In: Warren, Ohio, United States 113 51 Drummers #3 Hard Rock Musicians #1 Rock Singers #37 Quick Facts Also Known As: David Eric Grohl Age: 54 Years, 54 Year Old Males Family: Spouse/Ex-: Jordyn Blum (m. 2003), Jennifer Youngblood (m. 19931997) father: James Grohl mother: Virginia Grohl Grohl also toured with the band in support of the album, delaying work on the Foo Fighters' album One by One. [156], In a June 2011 interview, Grohl revealed that he was going deaf in his left ear due to decades of performing on stage. Rather than using his own name, Grohl released the cassette under the pseudonym "Late! [51] May later contributed guitar work for the song "Tired of You" on the ensuing Foo Fighters album, as well as on an unreleased Foo Fighters song called "Knucklehead". [118] On March 9, 2011, he appeared in the SNL Digital Short "Helen Mirren's Magical Bosom" and the sketch "Bongo's Clown Room".[119]. "And for whatever reason, the emotion or the feeling I got when I would play this succession of chords sort of touched on whatever emotion that was.". The band have shared a 13-second snippet of what sounds like a brand-new song. "[28] Grohl told Q: "I remember being in the same room with them and thinking, 'What? Learn more. It was Nirvana's final studio recording;[36] on April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound at his home. WebDavid Eric " Dave " Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician and singer. Apart from his main bands, Grohl has been involved in other music projects. In February 1996, Grohl and his then-wife Jennifer Youngblood made a brief cameo appearance on The X-Files third-season episode "Pusher".[45].

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