[147], Grohl is an advocate for gun control. It was his first performance since the death of Taylor Hawkins earlier in the year. In 2005, the FBI arrested a woman who was threatening to kill Dave. Grohl is the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, and has recorded and toured with Queens of the Stone Age. [7] He is of German, Irish, and Slovak descent. [158] As for producing music, he refuses to use in-ear monitors despite their ability to protect his ears because it "removes [him] from the natural atmosphere sound so [he] cannot hear [his] bandmates". WebDave Grohl shares three daughters with his wife Jordyn Blum. The band released their debut album Them Crooked Vultures on November 16, 2009, in the UK and November 17, 2009, in the US. [85] Grohl also performed with McCartney at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, again playing drums on "I Saw Her Standing There". He grew tired of lessons and instead taught himself, eventually playing in bands with friends. [152], In 1994, Grohl married Jennifer Leigh Youngblood, a photographer from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. In 1997, his brief marriage to photographer Jennifer Youngblood ended in large part due to Grohl's sleeping around, he told The Guardian. [4], David Eric Grohl was born in Warren, Ohio, on January 14, 1969,[5][6] the son of teacher Virginia Jean (ne Hanlon) and newswriter James Harper Grohl (19382014). Grohl acknowledges that his split with his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, was because of his own infidelities. It wasn't until 2001 that Grohl met the love of his A roadway in downtown Warren named "David Grohl Alley" has been dedicated to him with murals by local artists. He plays rhythm guitar on the Swedes cover of Roky Ericksons If You Have Ghosts and drums on ABBA cover I'm A Marionette and Depeche Mode cover Waiting For The Night. [53], Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light, was released on April 12, 2011. His song "Everlong," was inspired by his pain over the divorce. He is the founder of the rock band Foo Fighters, in which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. The cover of Foo Fighters' first album in 1995 featured a disintegrator pistol used by sci-fi character Buck Rogers. "[16] During his developing years as a drummer, Grohl cited John Bonham as his greatest influence, and eventually had Bonham's three-rings symbol tattooed on his right shoulder. During the early 90s, Grohl dated photographer Jennifer Youngblood. [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". I was like, What? I miss her a ton, she's the funniest [expletive] weirdo you ever met in your life. Nurture it. Little is known about Youngblood, and she has kept a low profile for the last 26 years. He revealed: "I was 25, my wife was even younger. In 2001, Grohl performed on Tenacious D's debut album, and appeared in the video for lead single "Tribute" as a demon. [106] The videos of the drum battle received tens of millions of views.[107][108]. Dave Grohl also known as David Eric Grohl is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. 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)". [71], In 1997, Grohl played a few songs with David Bowie for Bowie's 50th birthday concert, which was recorded and shown on pay-per-view later that year. In a nice life-turning-full-circle moment, in 2013 Dave and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins inducted the Canadian rock legends into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and also performed a section of 2112 with the band. Jennifer Youngblood: Meet Dave Grohl's ex-wife - Vim Buzz Grohl, a fan of theatrical Swedish metal band Ghost, produced their EP If You Have Ghost. 292 Dave Grohl And Wife Premium High Res Photos - Getty Images 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 [163], Grohl's first solo Rolling Stone cover story was published on December 4, 2014.[164]. Absolutely adorable. Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images. Grohl's drum kit, as designed by Drum Workshop, features five different sized toms ranging from 5x8 inches to 16x18 inches, a 19-inch crash cymbal, two 20-inch crash cymbals, an 18-inch China cymbal, a 24-inch ride cymbal, and a standard kick drum, snare drum, and hi-hat.[140]. Dave had always blame the reason for their divorce on himself. Here we present 20 lesser-known facts about the Foos frontman that even the most dedicated superfan might not know. 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. [161] The record-breaking drumsticks were shown to the public for the first time on July 7 during a concert at the Warren Amphitheater. Luckily, he kept in touch and ended up rejoining in 2005, proving a solid lasting friendship regardless of past decisions. Pat Smear Nirvana's second album, Nevermind (1991), was the first to feature Grohl on drums and became a worldwide success. [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 felt to me like music equalled death. The couple met two years prior Apart from his main bands, Grohl has been involved in other music projects. [35], Prior to their 1994 European tour, the band scheduled session time at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle to work on demos. At the age of 12, he began learning to play guitar. [88] The trio performed their first show together on August 9, 2009, at Metro in Chicago. Deal? "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. He stayed there for two years, beginning with a repeat of his first year. The verse is just bullshit, its nothing, I wrote it in a bathroom, but the chorus on the other hand means a lot to me, he said. 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. 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. "This is exactly what makes Dave amazing," notes Igor Avidon, a self-described Dave superfan who runs an agency by day. some of music's biggest names performing Times Like These, Scott exhumed another Mission Impossible track, The 20 greatest Foo Fighters songs ranked. He added, "One of the advantages of finishing the record before we had a new label was that it was purely our creation. Grohl's note read, in part, "Though I'm halfway around the world right now, my heart is with you both, and I want you to know that when you come home, there's two tickets to any Foos show, anywhere, and two cold beers waiting for yous [sic]. He has described himself as a coffee addict who drinks an average of six cups of coffee every morning; in 2009, he was admitted to a hospital with chest pains caused by a caffeine overdose. On December 1, 2015, Grohl appeared on an episode of The Muppets where he competed in a "drum off" with Animal. [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". 1 in the United States. [24] In 1990, Scream unexpectedly disbanded midtour following the departure of bassist Skeeter Thompson. [64], On September 15, 2017, Foo Fighters released their ninth studio album Concrete and Gold, which became the band's second album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. [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. But how much do actually you know about The Nicest Man In Rock? Youngblood's contribution to Foo Fighter's first album is greater. Dave played his first gig with Nirvana at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, Washington, on October 11, 1990. It was released on April 30, 2021, on the Coda Collection via Amazon Prime. We weren't ready to get married. You all are fucking nerds! It was a weird scene they might as well have been fucking Mormons.. "[12] In Virginia, he attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman and was elected class vice-president. In 2012 the Philadelphia Enquirer newspaper reported that Dave gave a $1,000 tip to bar staff at the Smith & Wollensky bar at the citys Rittenhouse Hotel on two consecutive evenings.
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