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Dave Grohl
b. 1969
American rock musician (born 1969)
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Biography
David Eric Grohl is an American musician. He founded the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the lead singer, guitarist, principal songwriter, and only consistent member. From 1990 to 1994, he was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana.
Timeline
The story of Dave Grohl, told in moments.
Drummer of the defining grunge band. Frontman of the defining post-grunge band. 16 Grammy Awards. He turned grief into one of rock's longest second acts.
Joins Nirvana as drummer after Scream breaks up. He's 21. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic hire him after one audition. Three months later, they're recording Nevermind.
Cobain dies. Nirvana is over. Grohl has a cassette of 40 songs he recorded alone in his basement. He books a studio, plays every instrument himself, and records what becomes the first Foo Fighters album. He doesn't tell anyone until it's finished.
Foo Fighters release The Colour and the Shape, with "Everlong" and "My Hero." The band becomes one of the biggest rock acts of the late 1990s. Grohl starts directing their music videos himself.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. Seven years later, he's inducted again with the Foo Fighters. Only the 10th person inducted twice with two different groups.
In Their Own Words (8)
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Maxim Magazine (January 2008), 2008
Perez [Hilton]: Are you drunk right now?Grohl: No, I gotta play.Perez: Britney Spears has been getting wasted all the time, hasn't stopped her.Grohl: Yeah, but she doesn't have to sing live.
Quoted in Shirley Halperin, "My Summer With the Foo Fighters," Entertainment Weekly (2007-09-21), 2007
"Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'''
"Give the Drummer Some," www.fooarchive.com (1995), 1995
Rock stars suck. Man, I'd be so embarrassed at being called a rock star. A lot of those connotations aren't conductive to my lifestyle. I don't do drugs, I don't fuck groupies, I don't spend all my money on limos and mansions and cocaine. I have a car and a small house and I go on tour and go to bed early and wake up and have tea. I'm a worker, man. I don't think many people see me as a rock star; hopefully they see me as a normal person. 'Musician' would be just fine.
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"Masturbation is one of the safest ways to explore your own sexuality."
Sex in the 90s, Part IX: The Safest Sex of All
Artifacts (15)
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Pétain, including more than 2,500 busts. Caroline Babulle, a spokeswoman for the publisher, Fayard, said: "They have not contested anything in the book, but they are trying to bury it by pretending it...
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it by pretending it doesn't exist." Responding to the book's release in 2004, a spokesman for LVMH said: "This is ancient history. The book covers a period when it was family-run and long before it...
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ommunications budget to counteract counterfeiting of its goods. LVMH, Vuitton's parent company, has described "Some 60 people at various levels of responsibility working full-time on...
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