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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, most of you could not have cared less about Dave Grohl until he issued a ceast and desist against Trump. I bet most of you Grohl fans don't even know where he got his start or anything about him. He is an average musician who got lucky because he knew Kurt Cobain, is quite unattractive, and a huge, arrogant jerk.[/quote]

I’m no apologist for his recent behavior, but it’s just not true that he’s an average musician.

He’s an absolutely extraordinary drummer who is also an excellent songwriter.

He didn’t have a pre-existing relationship with Kurt Cobain. Kurt asked him to join Nirvana because he admired his drumming from what Dave did with the band Scream.

For someone who claims people didn’t know anything about him, you display quite a bit of ignorance.[/quote]

Yeah, I have to chime in here. Agree with this poster that a lot of us know our dave grohl lore.

He actually had a really interesting start. His dad was a Republican strategist and his mom was a public school teacher. He  didn’t grow up poor -it was pretty solid middle-class childhood but his dad was largely absent and he was raised by a single mom.

He taught himself the drums using pillows. He dropped out of school at 17 due to likely undiagnosed ADHD (this was the 80s after all) and a lot of pot smoking. He saw a flyer in a store that a band he admired was looking for a drummer, got the gig. Shortly after joined Nirvana which love them or hate them they absolutely had a huge impact on music for a generation.

After Kurt’s death, if he didn’t do another thing he probably still would be pretty legendary and fairly wealthy, but then he went out and formed the Foo Fighters, he is the lead, singer, writes the lyrics snd composes the music for that very successful and prolific band. It’s pretty impressive to start as a drummer, then find huge success as the leader of another band. He also has a number of side bands and he produces and collaborates with a lot of other artists.

He’s such a rock god that people get a kick out of the fact that he has had a long-standing marriage and he is very vocal about loving being a dad. You can say he has great PR but he obviously has a great stage presence night after night and connects with fans. Unlike most bands that do big tours when they want to promote an album, the Foo Fighters are truly a touring band and do an insane amount for shows for huge audience year after year. There are actually quite a few people who were very pissed at Dave after Taylor Hawkins died because they said the schedule was relentless and blamed him for not letting up. But the point is a lot of people get a lot of exposure to Dave on stage and while it may be an act, it’s not just behind the scenes PR. He’s a showman and people feel like they know him.

I think people also like that the Foo Fighters never seem to take themselves too seriously. They did a goofy menthos commercial years ago, their tour rider or whatever it’s called got out years ago, and it was so over the top - It was just clear they don’t take themselves too seriously and recognize how good they have it.

It’s also petty clear he’s an alcoholic and a workaholic. The touring and all of the side projects… it’s an insane amount of work. He likely numbed the pain of Taylor and his mom’s death with alcohol and work. And now the cracks are showing. [/quote]

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