Are you kidding?' [10] When he was a child, Grohl's family moved to Springfield, Virginia. On October 5, 2021, Grohl's memoir The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music was published by Dey Street Books. The Foo Fighters were on the verge of collapse, and Smear and Grohl were estranged for years. [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. [135], Cal Jam 18 was held October 56, 2018 in San Bernardino, California which featured the Foo Fighters and a Nirvana reunion.[136][137]. [105], Between August and November 2020, Grohl performed in an online drum battle with ten-year-old drummer and YouTube celebrity Nandi Bushell, who had challenged Grohl after previously covering songs from Nirvana and Foo Fighters. It was complete and not open to outside tampering."[49]. Grohl also featured on drums for new indie hip-hop band RDGLDGRN. Foo Fighters' sixth studio album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released on September 25, 2007. [115][116], Grohl has also appeared in several sketches on SNL. When "All My Life" ended its run, after a one-week respite, "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age took the number one spot. Grohl played drums on the tracks "Run with the Wolves" and "Stand Up" on The Prodigy's[87] 2009 album Invaders Must Die. [31] At the same time, Grohl was compiling and recording his own material, which he released on a cassette called Pocketwatch in 1992 on indie label Simple Machines. Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl. He also has another signature guitar called the "Memphis Dave Grohl ES-335" in silver finish that is otherwise similar to the DG-335. It was chaos, Dave recalled. show that he would appear with Grohl on the next Queens of the Stone Age album. 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[37] Two decades later, on April 10, 2014, Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. He dropped out of high school to play with the hardcore group Scream before auditioning for Nirvana. After going back and forth with Bushell a few times, he jokingly conceded victory to her, and later wrote and performed a song in her honor. In an Apple Music Essentials interview, the band talked about a rocky period while working on their fourth album, "One by One." Little is known about Youngblood, and she has kept a low profile for the last 26 years. He wrote and recorded a few new songs, "Walking After You" and the hit single Everlong, alone at a studio in Washington, D.C. As of 2023, Dave Grohls net worth is $330 million. You all are fucking nerds! It was a weird scene they might as well have been fucking Mormons.. [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. Respect it." [153] On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum. However, Dave maintains that only one solitary snare hit from a lengthy drum track he taped with producer Butch Vig actually made it on to the track. He is the founder of the rock band Foo Fighters, in which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. Grohl passed the audition and soon joined the band. "[23], Over the next four years, Grohl toured extensively with Scream, recording a live album (their show of May 4, 1990, in Alzey, Germany, being released by Tobby Holzinger as Your Choice Live Series Vol.10) and two studio albums, No More Censorship and Fumble, on which Grohl penned and sang vocals on the song "Gods Look Down". In 2000, he played drums and sang on a track, "Goodbye Lament", from Tony Iommi's album Iommi. [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. [5] When Freak Baby fired its bass player and reshuffled its lineup, Grohl switched to drums. His primary acoustic guitar is a black Elvis Presley model Gibson Dove. It was really the first time I ever heard a drummer in the forefront of the band, he recalled. [127], In 2021, Grohl directed What Drives Us, a feature-length documentary on van touring. Strictly speaking, the track was more a Dave track than a Nirvana track, as the talented drummer played all the instruments on it, but Kurt joined in on vocals, the pair ditching the original lyrics in favour of simply grunting the word 'Meat!' Dave Grohl married photographer, Jennifer Leigh Youngblood in 1994 but divorced in December 1997. The band have shared a 13-second snippet of what sounds like a brand-new song. He stayed there for two years, beginning with a repeat of his first year. [61] He lent it again in 2021 to Darin Wall, of the Seattle metal band Greyhawk, after Wall was shot in the leg. Apart from his main bands, Grohl has been involved in other music projects. [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. [54] Despite rumors of a hiatus,[55] Grohl confirmed in January 2013 that the band had completed writing material for their follow-up to Wasting Light.[56]. The project was released in 2004 under the nickname Probot. "[12] In Virginia, he attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman and was elected class vice-president. 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. They separated in December 1996 and divorced in 1997. "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 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. Later in 1994, Grohl played drums on two tracks for Mike Watt's Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. After the sessions were complete, Goldsmith announced his departure from the band. In 1993, Grohl was recruited to help recreate the music of The Beatles' early years for the movie Backbeat;[70] he played drums in an "all-star" lineup that included Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, indie producer Don Fleming, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. 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. [citation needed] During a break between tours, the band entered the studio and recorded a cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park". [110][111] On March 25, 2022, the self-titled Dream Widow EP was released to digital streaming services featuring eight tracks ranging from thrash, death and extreme metal. Track four on the EP, Skeeter, is an alternate version of the song Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson which Dave recorded for the Pocketwatch cassette, Skeeter Thompson being the bass player in his former band Scream. In 2005, the FBI arrested a woman who was threatening to kill Dave. He just seems like a massive jerk, was Daves considered opinion. 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. 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. For most of the three-day session, Cobain was absent, so Novoselic and Grohl worked on demos of their own songs. [125] The film, Grohl's feature-length directorial debut, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. [120] Grohl had previously hosted the show during the first week of December 2012 as part of "Celebrity Guest Host Week". Eddie Vedders Ohana Festival has unveiled its 2023 line-up, featuring the Pearl Jam frontman headlining alongside Foo Fighters and The Killers. "[13], At 13, Grohl and his sister spent the summer at their cousin Tracey's house in Evanston, Illinois. [155], With a fortune of $260million at the time, Grohl was estimated by a 2012 Stereogum article to be the third wealthiest drummer in the world, behind Ringo Starr and Phil Collins. | Source: Getty Images. "[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. 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 left Foo Fighters in 1997, before rejoining as a touring guitarist in 2005, and has been a full-time member since 2010. Dave was earlier married to Jennifer Youngblood, whom he divorced in 1997. Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Probot, Them Crooked Vultures, Tenacious D Dave Grohl's discography is nothing short of impressive. Grohl, a fan of theatrical Swedish metal band Ghost, produced their EP If You Have Ghost. [66][67] It was released on February 5, 2021, and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200. [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. It felt to me like music equalled death. He also released the music cassette Pocketwatch under the pseudonym Late! Dave Grohl with his Ex-Wife (Jennifer Leigh Youngblood) [150], Grohl supported Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign and performed "My Hero" at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Every. 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