It starts as an account of how the young Grohl goes from grinding his jaws rhythmically, to fashioning a drum kit from pillows, to summoning the spirit of the Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham on a rudimentary altar and petitioning him for musical success. The seance worked a treat. Rage and disaffection are fundamental to punk, grunge and rock. Equally, these genres run on bonhomie and positivity, coexisting alongside the nihilism. Grohl himself is, infamously, a Tiggerish character, genial and enthusiastic.
I could see it wearing on William. So we took some time off for Christmas. I went back to Washington. I come back with these two demos. All right. By the time I called him, he was really upset, understandably so, and I regret doing that to some degree. I flew up to Seattle to talk to him about it.
Stay in the band. Be the drummer. You know what? You should do that for a little while. I did fucking masonry when I was a kid in the Virginia summer heat. So yeah, it kind of imploded. I begged him to stay; he refused to stay. When he got to L. Sunny Day Real Estate reunited and worked on a fifth album at your studio a few years ago. The album never materialized. Goldsmith came out and said you shoulder some responsibility for the album not coming together.
He walked the statement back but still sort of implicated you, as the owner of the studio, in the sessions not working out. You should ask his old best friend, Nate Mendel, about that because he was there during those fucking sessions and he knows exactly what happened. Yeah, Nate said there was no truth to those remarks. I wanted to know what your feeling about all that was. Have you heard that record? We heard a song or two. Your memoir starts off detailing some of the toll that being a front man has taken on your body.
Have you considered slowing down? Or is that what this year is? Are you easing up or just playing a tricky year by ear? When I broke my leg , I remember thinking it was a message from the universe telling me to chill the fuck out.
You are vulnerable and fragile. You need to slow down. I considered it and then I went on tour for 65 more shows in a fucking chair. I truly enjoy what I do, and I am creatively restless. I saw you in Madison Square Garden in There was a precision, which I think is the hallmark of the Foo Fighters. You made sure that nothing ever felt scripted, though. There was a freedom to it. As far as pulling a band together and making sure the song is tight and powerful, we try to be as fucking good as we can.
We rehearse to a point. Fuck that. Especially after 26 fucking years. Oh my God. Part of the intimacy of a large show is allowing the audience to not only participate but giving them a clear view of the people that are onstage. Talk about trolling Westboro Baptist protesters at your shows off and on for a decade. The reason they started picketing us was that we made a tour commercial once where all of us were taking a shower together.
When they show up at your doorstep, you have to push them back, and of course we do it in the way we always do it, which is either to Rickroll them or play a Bee Gees song or pull up on a flatbed truck and play for them. But I have to be honest. Some of those riffs almost look like percussion patterns. I have some wires crossed where I place things in my mind.
I look at the higher strings as they ring out like cymbals. I also think of composition and arrangement like wheels in a clock. Does it bother you, as a Led Zeppelin superfan, to know how much they took from people like Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, and that people sometimes had to sue for proper credit? The story of rock and roll is limited to the people who get to do the telling.
When I did Sonic Highways and got to talk with Buddy Guy about his beginnings and his move to Chicago, he thanked me for putting the spotlight on the blues. I thought about this as I rewatched the Buddy Guy episode recently. How, in your work in film and television, the intention might be to create a record of music history for future generations.
I fucking interviewed a hundred people for that series. Is that my podcast? I do believe in the lineage of music. The evolution of American music, the evolution of instrumentation and technology and creativity.
The purpose of life is to grow. I still believe this fucking crazy world of music we live in now is a community. Years ago, I was hell-bent on starting my own network.
I was out of my fucking mind. No way. When you see veterans like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison loudly fighting the wrong battles and losing the plot, do you worry about how easy it is to lose touch? What keeps you on the pulse? You wake up in the morning, you put your shoes on, and you try to fucking walk a straight line. Over the past year, your fellow double Rock Hall inductees Stevie Nicks and Neil Young have sold part or all of the publishing rights to their catalogues.
Oh, we pay attention. I know everybody that sold their fucking publishing rights. Have you thought about it much? World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Callie Ahlgrim. Dave Grohl recently discussed his time as Nirvana's drummer in an interview with Vulture. He revealed that Kurt Cobain once considered replacing him with someone "more rudimental. Stylist assistant: Natasha Bock. Back when he was a teenage drum prodigy living in the suburbs of Washington D. And I talked to their guitar player Dewey about it.
You want your arms to be free. So I was like cool. So I started kind of drawing this thing. At the time Gwar was a band that would draw like people, right? Which is huge. When Grohl broke his leg in a stage accident, the injury turned out to be far more serious than he first imagined. I was so fucked. I had no idea how bad it was. So it was three or four hours a day for six months. Just to get it back. I slept on this little couch.
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