Whats Dave Grohl up to these days?
Yknow, no big deal.
(He loves Gangnam Style!
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Not so much.)
He even coined a catchphrase of sorts: The musician comes first.
you might read the highlights of his conversation below.
I hope I still look like a rock star.
And then he started laughing.
As if to say, good fing luck, buddy.
I gave it all up for a fin riff, he said.
The song inspired him to buy his first guitar, an old Sears Silvertone that smelled like mothballs.
It sounded like thatgoats yelling like humans YouTube clip thats popular right now, he joked.
At 12 years old, I was multi-tracking songs in my bedroom.
All by myself, he said.
We applied as Nameless, he admits, laughing.
We just couldnt fin come up with anything better than that.
So in the Thomas Jefferson High School battle of the bands, Nameless played Kenny Loggins Footloose.
She was a fing superhero come to life, Grohl remembers.
Something Id only seen on TV, onQuincyorCHiPS.
I sat down and I played every last one, he said.
This was the first day of the rest of my life.
Bodies were flying everywhere, he remembered.
Spit and sweat and leather.. broken glass and piss and fin puke.
I was in heaven!
And it was our secret.
), he heard that Kurt Cobain needed a drummer.
So he moved to Seattle.
We practiced in a barn eve day.
It was all that we had.
There was no sun, there was no moon.
There was just the barn.
It was, he joked, fing Benihana every fing night.
Cobain replied, We want to be the biggest band in the world.
I laughed, says Grohl.
I thought he was fing kidding.
Grohl notes that, in 1990, the No.
1 song in the country was Wilson Phillips Hold On.
Personally, I thought it looked like a fin Chi Chis that had a fire.
Within a month,Nevermindhad gone gold.
By the new year, they were selling 300,000 records a week.
He never figured out why they struck a chord like that.
Legions of American youth fed up with Wilson Phillips?
Probably, he quipped.
Guilt is cancer, he confessed.
It will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist.
Later, he railed against the idea of guilty pleasures.
Is it any better or worse than the latest Atoms for Peace album?
Hmmm…paging Pitchfork!
We need you to help us determine the value of a song!
On behalf of the music critics in the audience, let me just say: Ouch.
On Kurt Cobains death:Whe Kurt died, I was lost, he said.
The music that Id devoted my life to had now betrayed me.
I had no voice.
I turned off the radio.
I put away my drums.
I couldnt care to hear someone elses voice singing about pain or joy.
It just hurt too much.
I was singing songs about starting over, he explained.
When an A&R guy called, he was surprised.
I considered it therapy.
They thought it was a record.
They were absolutely blown away.
He left the room and came back half hour later, and there they were dancing to Get Back.
Then he smiled, realizing that he was coming off a little strong for a guy whos so anti-authority.
Then again, he added.
What do I know?
