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It all started in Washington, D.C., at a show at the Wilson Center by Void, a chaotic, incredibly intense punk-metal quartet from Columbia, Md., where 15-year-old Dave Grohl first met Brian Samuels in the fall of 1984. At that time, Samuels' band Freak Baby was looking for a second guitarist - just as such luminaries of the scene as Minor Threat, Faith and Scream had done a year earlier - and Samuels invited the young guitarist to audition in the band's rehearsal room, located in drummer Dave Smith's basement. Grohl wasn't the best guitarist the band had encountered - Chris Page recalls him being merely "competent" - but if he lacked anything in technical prowess, he made up for it with energy, enthusiasm and infectious the humor he brought to the group. In addition, Grohl's simple but effective rhythm delivery complemented the more professional game lead guitarist Bryant Mason.
Freak Baby's breakup was sudden and brutal. One day in late 1984, Grohl was sitting at Dave Smith's kit in rehearsal, trying out simple fractions, fills and grace notes, which he practiced for several years in his bedroom at his parents’ house in Springfield (Virginia). He played with his head down and his eyes closed; his arms and legs flashed as he beat out the beats to the guitar riffs running through his head. riff - a short repeating figure played on the guitar - approx. website] by Minor Threat and Bad Brains. Immersed in music, Grohl paid no attention to his comrades who insisted that he return to his guitar. At 6-foot-5 and weighing in at 270 pounds, the shaven-headed Samuels didn't strike him as someone to be ignored. Grohl didn't notice his burly bandmate rise from the couch, so when Samuels yanked him off the chair by the hair and threw him to the ground, he felt more shock than pain. However, the rest of the group were depressed. They had already felt that Samuels was trying more and more to assert his authority and take control of the group, but this was too much. As Grohl rose to his feet, Chris Page announced the end of rehearsal. And less than a week later, he announced the end of Freak Baby, shuffling the lineup so that Grohl sat on drums, Smith took bass, and Samuels went home. With the new lineup came a new name: Mission Impossible.
With the alpha male gone, Mission Impossible's early rehearsals were playful, productive, and high-energy: All four of the group loved to skateboard, and at times Smith's basement felt more like a skatepark than a rehearsal room, with teenagers bouncing off the walls as they played. , spun around like a top, jumped over amplifiers and furniture. However, their rehearsals were also characterized by intensity and concentration. The songs were born on their own as the musicians poured out ideas, filled the hall with energy and experimented with structure, tone, rhythm and dynamics. After only two months, the band felt ready to record a test tape, which was done with the assistance of local engineer and musician Barrett Jones, who had directed the previous recording session for Freak Baby. Jones led a rock band in college called the 11th Hour, a homegrown Northern Virginia answer to R.E.M. — and ran a tiny recording studio, the Laundry Room, so named because his Tascam 4-track tape recorder and Peavey 12-track mixing console were housed in the laundry room of his parents' Arlington home. Today, owning a more modernized and spacious Laundry Room Studios in Seattle's South Park neighborhood, Jones remembers the project fondly.
“I had already done a record for Freak Baby with Dave as guitarist, but when he switched to drums, it only benefited the band,” he recalls. “Instead of one-minute hardcore songs, they started doing... two-minute hardcore songs! But these things were more promising, complex and dynamic.
At the time, Dave was probably the most energetic musician I had ever met,” he adds. “When we did the first test recording for Freak Baby, he was literally jumping off the walls. It was a hardcore band, so they were all full of energy, but he stood out from the rest. However, when it comes to music, his decision to switch to drums was undoubtedly the right one."
Ian MacKaye, lead singer of Fugazi and co-founder of Dischord Records, remembers the first time he saw Grohl behind the drums with Mission Impossible during a show at Lake Braddock on July 25, 1985. "Everyone said: 'You need to look at this drummer, he's just a kid, only 16 years old, he's been playing for a couple of months, and he's just unstoppable!' And then I saw them in person, and Dave was just playing maniacally. He didn't He completely mastered all the technical techniques, but his performance seemed to be dictated by someone from above. His playing was so unrestrained, he strived to play so strongly and quickly. It was simply phenomenal!
“Ian came up to me one night and said I sounded just like [D.O.A./Black Flag/Circle Jerks drummer] Chuck Biscuits,” recalls Grohl. “To me it was like saying, 'You're just like Keith Moon.' "Because Chuck Biscuits was a great inspiration to me. From then on, I became a well-known "kid" in the area who plays great. I gained a reputation as a super fast, unstoppable hardcore drummer."
Transition to Scream.
In the late fall of 1986, Dave Grohl, now with the short-lived band Dain Bramage, went to buy new drumsticks at the Rolls Music store in Falls Church, Virginia. There he saw an advertisement hanging among the leaflets on information stand. It read: "Scream needs a drummer. Call Franz." Not believing it at first, Grohl re-read the ad several times, then tore it off the stand and put it in his pocket. Since the situation with Dain Bramage was uncertain, he figured it wouldn't hurt to take the opportunity to play with the musicians he considered heroes. Arriving home, he picked up the phone and dialed the number.
Scream (with Dave Grohl on drums)
Dave Grohl was just 17 years old when he joined the last great American hardcore band. Bruce Springsteen once sang about learning: “more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school”; Likewise, three years of traveling in a Dodge Ram van with the band Scream provided Grohl with the greatest schooling he could have ever dreamed of. In a surprisingly telling phrase that aptly captures the wild, illegal nature of the underground touring scene of the mid-'80s, Grohl's ex-girlfriend reminisced about the past and said that Grohl was "raised by wolves on a bus." Twenty-five years have passed since Scream began, and Grohl still regards Pete and Franz Stahl as part of his family.
“I was 18 years old and already doing exactly what I wanted to do,” says Grohl. “With $7 a day in my pocket, I was traveling to places I never dreamed of, all thanks to music. It’s a feeling.” - when you drive around the country in a van with five other guys, stop in every city to give a concert, sleep on the floor of strangers, admire the sun rising over the desert from the cabin - all this is simply indescribable. This is exactly what I feel. the soul lay."
From Scream to Nirvana
In August 1990, on the initiative of Thurston Moore [American musician; composer, guitarist and vocalist of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth - approx. website], Nirvana was invited to open several events at West coast for Sonic Youth. Moore, his partner Kim Gordon and Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis saw Nirvana perform in New Jersey last summer and were deeply impressed by the band's brutal power. Having purchased a copy of the Nirvana cassette recorded at Smart Studios, he now told everyone he knew about this group. For Cobain, the opportunity to play alongside the legendary New York City bangers was too tempting to pass up, despite once again having no drummer in the band. Since Dan Peters (Mudhoney's drummer and Nirvana's temporary replacement, replacing previous drummer Chad Channing, who left the band in May 1990) was assigned to a European festival with Mudhoney, Cobain turned to his old friend Dale Crover of the Melvins. for more help.
Two days before the start of the tour at Bogart's club in Long Beach, California, Cobain, Chris Novoselic (who did not yet write his name in Croatian at the time) and sound engineer Craig Montgomery drove to San Francisco to meet with Crover at Buzz Osborne's house. It was then that Osborne advised them to go to the I-Beam club and see his friends from Scream.
Cobain was not immediately persuaded. Along with his neighbor Slim Moon, owner of the Kill Rock Stars record label in Olympia, the singer had already seen this band from Bailey's Crossroads [an area on the outskirts of Virginia - approx. Drumspeak - drummers forum] performed at the Community World Theater in Tacoma back in October 1987, during Dave Grohl's first tour with the Stahl brothers. Cobain, expecting to hear genuine punk rock, was terribly disappointed when he realized that Scream's live performance was largely built around the bombastic hard rock that he himself had tried to abandon.
“Kurt didn’t like it terribly,” recalls Slim Moon, still a respected figure in Olympia’s tight-knit, fiercely independent music community. “He kept saying, ‘When good groups"They're playing Van Halen - it's no good." For some reason, he was particularly annoyed by the fact that they were playing solos on Telecaster guitars. On the way back, he kept saying all the way that he couldn't stand it all."
In San Francisco, Cobain agreed to go to the I-Beam club as a matter of form. And this time he did not notice what guitars Franz Stahl was playing, nor that Pete Stahl was dressed more like Sammy Hagar [American guitarist and rock vocalist, was part of the rock band Van Halen - approx. website], not Ian MacKaye. His attention was completely dominated by the powerful drumming of Scream's drummer.
“I was standing with Kurt and Chris,” Montgomery recalls, “and Kurt said, ‘That’s the kind of drummer we need.’” Dave had an energy that was hard not to give in, and Kurt and Chris The game was simply stunning. He seemed like the most suitable candidate for us."
Six weeks later, Dave Grohl packed his drums into a large cardboard box and boarded a plane to Seattle.
Grohl arrived in Seattle on Friday afternoon, September 21, 1990. Cobain and Chris Novoselic arrived at Sea-Tac Airport to meet him. As Novoselic pulled out of the airport in his Volkswagen camper, intending to make the 18-mile route to his home in Tacoma, where Grohl would be staying for the first few weeks, the drummer offered Cobain an apple to break the ice.
“No, thank you,” said Cobain. “Apples make my gums bleed.” The rest of the journey was done in silence. The following evening, it was announced that Nirvana would be performing in an all-ages show alongside local punk bands Derelict, Dwarves and Melvins at the 1,500-person Motor Sports International Garage. This performance was of considerable importance for the group: at that time it was their largest headlining show in hometown, and Sub Pop [an American record label based in Seattle] invited journalist Keith Cameron and photographer Ian Tilton from Sounds magazine from London to write an editorial about the band ahead of their first full UK tour in October, where they was to become the highlight of the program. Since Mudhoney was on hiatus while guitarist Steve Turner was finishing college, Cobain asked Dan Peters to play drums that night. In the afternoon, Cobain told Grohl that he was unlikely to be able to communicate with him or introduce him to friends during the show, since the sudden appearance of an unknown drummer at a concert could give rise to various gossip among the regulars of the local party. The stunned Grohl regularly watched the performance from the crowd of spectators, imbued with the atmosphere of the show. He was surprised to see that every guy in the room was wearing a Nirvana T-shirt with some rollicking theme like smoking dope.
The next day, Novoselics hosted a barbecue party at their home for visiting UK journalists, and the drummer sat quietly in the background, eating shrimp, lobster and beef roasts while Cobain, Novoselic and Peters outlined their future plans to Cameron. The next day, he joined Cobain and Novoselic in the dingy Dutchman rehearsal room in Seattle, where the pair had co-written "Sliver" with Peters a few months earlier, and he was given an audition to be considered for a job opening. which, as Peters quite logically believed, was already occupied. Before the trio had time to complete the first composition, Cobain and Novoselic already realized that they had found the person they needed. The next day, Kurt Cobain showed up unannounced to Calvin Johnson's KAOS radio show to perform an impromptu acoustic performance of four songs. During the performance, he accidentally mentioned to Johnson that Nirvana now had a new drummer, and referred to him only as “the drummer of our dreams.”
“His name is Dave, and he’s a miniature Dale Crover,” he enthused. “He plays almost as great as Dale. And in a couple of years, he’ll probably be able to put him in his belt.”
Dan Peters was unaware of Cobain's surprise announcement on KAOS. So when the Nirvana singer called him the next day, Peters imagined Cobain wanted to talk about an upcoming UK tour. Instead, he timidly informed him that a new drummer had been hired on a permanent basis.
Communication was never one of the strengths Cobain, as Grohl himself quickly realized: “I don’t remember them telling me, ‘You’re in a band,’” Grohl admitted years later. “We just kept playing.”
The performance was energetic, stormy and intense. Grohl was forced to start the opening number, a cover of The Vaselines' "Son Of A Gun," no less than three times because of intermittent traffic jams in the tiny building during the performance. A few more songs later, the shirtless drummer completely pierced the head of the snare drum with his sticks; Cobain picked up the mangled drum, displaying it to the adoring crowd like a trophy of war. This was Grohl's official debut.
“I felt like I had something to prove,” he later recalled. “I knew that as a group we sounded great. And that night we were in in great shape, although I was nervous like I don’t know who. I didn’t know anyone, neither in the audience nor in the group. I was completely left to my own devices. And that was the only thing that mattered - this hour that was to be spent on stage. That's what I'm completely focused on."
“Grohl was an absolute monster,” says Cobain biographer Charles R. Cross, then editor of the Seattle newspaper The Rocket. “Chad Channing is often underestimated, but he was a great drummer on early stage Nirvana touring performances because he was an affable guy, a talented musician, and played Nirvana songs from the punk era as well as anyone. However, with Dave Grohl, Nirvana became a completely different beast. He gave Nirvana's performances power and made them truly spectacular. It was Grohl who turned Nirvana into the powerhouse we now know."
"Thanks to his contribution, our group has become a real natural strength, says Novoselic. “Nirvana became a mighty beast that walked heavily across the planet.”
Translation made with permission of the copyright holder DRUM! magazine..
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Dave Grohl (David Eric Grohl English David Eric Grohl January 14) is an American rock musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer for the rock band Nirvana until its disbandment that year.
Grohl's musical career began in the 1980s, when he played in several Washington bands.
In the year he founded the rock band Foo Fighters. In the year he collaborated with the group
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before nirvana he participated in Scream
DAVE GROHL
“Within two minutes we knew that this was the drummer we needed. He had a strong blow. He was very dynamic. Dave was so bright, hot, lively. He played rock."
Chris Novoselic
David Eric Grohl was born on January 14, 1969 in Warren, Ohio, to James and Virginia Grohl. His father was a journalist, and his mother taught English at school. Dave had a sister, Lisa, three years older than him. When Dave was three years old, the family moved to Springfield, Virginia, and when he was six, his parents divorced. According to Dave, his parents' divorce did not make much of an impression on him, perhaps because he did not understand much at the time. Dave was raised by his mother, whom he still adores. However, raising two children on child support and a modest teacher’s salary was not easy. "We've been heavy times when all we ate for lunch was peanut butter and sandwiches,” Dave recalled. In her youth, his mother sang in several vocal groups that performed on the street, and his father was a talented flutist. Dave himself, being still a naked boy, easily grasped any melody by ear. He loved music since childhood. At the age of ten, Dave and his friend Larry formed a duo called the H. G. HANCOCK BAND. Dave played a one-string guitar and Larry banged on kitchen utensils. At the age of twelve, Dave began taking guitar lessons and studied for about two years. He wrote songs about his friends or his dog and recorded them on a tape recorder - first with guitar, and then overdubbed drums. In the end, he got tired of studying, and he began to play in surrounding bands that performed songs by THE BEATLES and ROLLING STONES. He didn’t know anything about punk rock at that time, but he had already become acquainted with the “new wave” in the person of B-52 and DEVO. Dave experienced a real shock in the summer of 1982, when he visited his aunt in Illinois and met his cousin Tracy. She was a real punk and sported fancy leather pants, all hung with chains and a crew cut. Tracy took Dave and her sister to a variety of punk concerts all summer, so as a result, both of them felt like real punks. Dave liked "just being a little punk asshole hanging around town, being a little renegade." But this was only one of the reasons for his passion for punk rock. The other was the energy the music radiated. “I was super hyperactive,” Dave recalled (not so much, however, that he was treated with Ritalin, like Kurt). Like Chris and Kurt, Dave started smoking weed in high school, but it became a real problem . “I smoked too much,” Dave recalled. - This is the only thing that I cannot forgive myself, because it seriously harmed me. From fifteen to twenty years old I smoked four or five times a day and a lot. Every single day. It's so exhausting. You don't feel exhausted while you're smoking, but once you stop, you realize, "There's something wrong with me." The prosperous middle class, who mostly inhabited Springfield, were much more tolerant of punk rock than the poverty-stricken residents of Aberdeen. Dave was surrounded by many like-minded people, and at school he already played in a “bad”, in his own opinion, but still a punk band called FREAK BABY. It soon became clear that the drummer couldn’t handle it at all, and Dave sat down at the drums. After practicing for some time in his room on books, chairs and other furniture, he got a taste for the new role. Soon the bass player had to be kicked out of the group, so the former drummer switched to bass, and Dave switched to drums. The group, which henceforth became known as MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, played fast hardcore punk, so fast that they had to change their name to FAST. In 1985, Dave formed DAIN BRAMAGE with Rubin Redding, the bassist for local luminaries AOC, who had just split up, and they released a single album that, in Dave's opinion, was a good representation of the brand of rock they played, namely "art-punk and hardcore." For an urban weed lover like Dave was at the time, it was only natural to become a fan of LED ZEPPELIN. And it was even more natural for him to start copying John Bonham's drumming style. “I was tearing it up like crazy,” Dave said, “and then I discovered the fantastic stuttering kick drum sound on “Kashmir” and it opened a million new doors for me.” As a joke, Dave first drew Bonham's three-circle logo on his bass drum, and then got a similar tattoo on his hand, as well as variations on his wrist and other arm. He got his first tattoo, the BLACK FLAG logo on his forearm, using a homemade method at the age of thirteen. When Dave turned seventeen, he dropped out of school because he was more interested in “seeing the world and playing” than a diploma. Later, when Wendy Cobain met Virginia Grohl on Saturday Night Live in New York and both women talked about their sons, they were amazed at how similar they were. However, Dave himself denied this, although he admitted that when he first visited the house where Kurt spent his childhood and saw a brain drawn on the wall with a question mark, he remembered how in the seventh grade he made a similar drawing for stoner. Besides, Dave agreed that he and Kurt were both pretty lazy people. After learning that a local hardcore band called SCREAM was looking for a drummer, Dave auditioned and was accepted. With SCREAM, he recorded two live albums and made several tours in the United States and Europe, until in September 1990, after the sudden departure of the band's bass player home during one of the tours, he found himself in Los Angeles, completely alone and without money. Dave called Buzz Osborne, who, knowing that Kurt and Chris liked Dave's playing, gave him Chris' number. Novoselic was delighted, and after a few questions convinced him that Dave was listening to the right music, he invited him to Seattle. Dave had already listened to NIRVANA during his European tour with SCREAM. Their sound seemed similar to the sound of MELVINS, which was close to his taste. Dave took his drums apart, packed them in a large cardboard box, and flew to Seattle. The concert at Motor Sports took place the evening after his arrival. NIRVANA didn't make a particularly strong impression on Dave that time. “I think they performed okay,” he recalled. - But they didn't shock me. MELVINS performed before them, and I was so immersed in them that by the time NIRVANA performed, I was already completely exhausted.” A few days later Dave's audition took place. “We knew within two minutes that this was the drummer we needed,” Chris recalled. - He had a strong blow. He was very dynamic. Dave was so bright, hot, lively. He played rock." Dave lived with Chris and Shelley for about a month, and then moved to Kurt in Olympia. He described the apartment in which he lived as “small, cluttered, dirty and smelly.” The bed he had to sleep on was thirty centimeters shorter than him, and next to it there was a terrarium with Kurt’s favorite turtles, which at night desperately banged their shells on the glass, trying to get out. “It was all very unusual,” Dave said. “The last two and a half years have been very unusual.” Kurt and Dave spent their time reading or just silently staring at the walls, and then went to a cheap movie theater or shot a blowgun in the yard. They went to bed at six in the morning, when it was just dawn, and woke up at sunset, never seeing the day. They hardly spoke. At the end of 1990, Kurt decided to break up with Toby, who was several years younger than him and clearly did not want to start a long-term relationship. However, this was exactly the kind of relationship Kurt needed. Another failure on the love front plunged him into depression. “I was just tired of not being able to find the right match that I’ve been looking for all my life,” Kurt said. - I'm tired of girls with whom I can spend no more than a couple of months. I've always been old-fashioned about this. I always needed a girl with whom I could be in a relationship for a long time. good relations. I would like to have a lot of attachments, but I always needed something more than that.” A few weeks later, Dave performed his first concert with NIRVANA in Olympia. It was an amazing show: Dave played with such force that he blew out the snare drum. Kurt grabbed the broken drum and raised it above his head so everyone could see - they had finally found the real drummer. And everyone who attended the concert had to agree with this opinion. Only now NIRVANA has found its true sound
Today Dave Grohl, a true one-man orchestra, is celebrating his birthday, without whom it is difficult to imagine the modern rock scene.
We take a look back at Dave Grohl's most remarkable achievements to date, while also asking a little about him from people around musical world— Alexey Doroshenko (“Friend of Rika”), Viktor Priduvalov, Artem Ugodnikov (“Gorchitza”, “Gapochka”), Dima Sazonov (Point) and Alexander Krasovitsky (“Animal Jazz”).
When you talk about people like Dave Grohl, you never know where to start - he manages so much that it seems that he simply must have a secret twin brother, or at least a secret for stretching one day to at least forty hours.
Create your own metal project Probot, write all the music and get Lemmy, Max Cavalera or Snake from Voivod to record vocals and write lyrics? Easily. Replace Joey Castillo behind the Queens of the Stone Age drum kit? No problem. Form a supergroup with the brilliant name Them Crooked Vultures and play for fun? No sooner said than done.
Buy a unique recording console that sits idle in the studio where Nirvana once recorded? Should we also make a film about this studio? Record a song with Sir Paul McCartney? After all this, arrange a big concert where they will gather brightest stars rock music, and record everything on tape? Hell yes!
Dave Grohl's portfolio includes not only Nirvana and Foo Fighters; and the list of musicians with whom he worked or is working is like that list of ships that can only be read halfway through.
Given all this, it is somehow not surprising that when Dave was 12 years old, he independently “invented” multi-track recording in his bedroom using two tape recorders. Well, how can you help but admire this man? I asked roughly this question to people who live in music - and this is what they answered me.
Alexey Doroshenko (drummer of the group “Druha Rika”)
“I never cease to admire him! My favorite Dave Grohl project is Probot: just a cool idea. Dave is an amazing person - he knows how to cut off all the unnecessary stuff and present very tasty material for the ear and eye.
I definitely recommend watching his film “Sound City” to everyone, and several times. I’ll be honest, when I watched it for the first time, and they talked about the accumulation of “Nevermind”... Oh, it was difficult to contain my emotions. I am very happy for those people who felt the thrill of working in this studio. Everything about the film is interesting: from the beginning to the coda. It is unique, just as its creator is unique.”
Victor Priduvalov (director, music video director, author of the Void project)
“I respect Dave Grohl. Frankly, I didn’t like Foo Fighters for a long time, especially after I once saw them playing to a soundtrack. But Grohl’s communication with Josh Homme yielded a very interesting result. And the way Grohl's drums sound on Queens of the Stone Age's 2002 album "Songs for the Deaf" is something! And all subsequent projects are interesting.
As for his work as a director, he is still very weak here, but if he doesn’t give up this occupation, there is every chance that good things will come of it.
Of course, Dave is very creative person. I wish him health - creative, spiritual and physical! Let's Rock!”
Artem Ugodnikov (drummer of the groups Gorchitza, Gapochka and trio SOMA)
“Even my mother knows that Dave Grohl played in Nirvana. Then, after mysterious death Cobain, after six months of depression, he recorded a tape (by himself!), called it Foo Fighters, assembled a line-up - and the result was another cool group.
Besides everything else, Dave Grohl is the person who made me pick up drumsticks with his playing. Then there were many drummers whom I admired - but for me he stood at the origins. Because when I saw this crazy guy playing in Nirvana on a worn-out videotape as a child, I simply had no words left.
Be sure to listen to the song "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age - our birthday boy plays the drums there. Great pressure!"
Dima Sazonov (vocalist of the band Point)
“Certainly Dave Grohl's most successful project is Nirvana. This is what history will preserve in any case. Foo Fighters are good, but frankly they're a one-man band. The most interesting thing began when Dave got involved with a party called Queens of the Stone Age. Afterwards, the band Them Crooked Vultures was born, which Dave created together with the bass player of Led Zeppelin and the leader of QOTSA. This is a group of one album (which, unfortunately, not many have heard), but, in my opinion, this is the coolest project with the participation of Grohl.
They say he irritates many people with his overly multifaceted activity. He fascinates me with this. There are rumors that he doesn’t get along well with other people’s thoughts, that many musicians left him because of his “musical despotism,” but, as practice has shown, he is simply a brilliant arranger - and a musician who plays literally everything. Plus I really like his sense of humor. In one word: wonderful."
Alexander Krasovitsky (group leader « Animal Jah Z")
“Nirvana is Dave Grohl's main achievement: for all the charisma of Kurt Cobain, Grohl's creative influence cannot be underestimated. But Foo Fighters are his so-called “showman” side. As it turns out, he has a lot of this. Well, his other projects, like working with Queens of the Stone Age, are nothing more than experiments.”
And finally - a real treasure: Dave Grohl's big speech at the SXSW music and film conference. About how it began creative path, why “Foo Fighters” is a bad name, how important it is to find your own voice and how to survive the most difficult moments and move on.
With feeling, sense, arrangement and constant humor.