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Tonight playing here at Wembley Stadium is an honor and if we didn't take advantage of this opportunity we'd be crazy
Page, Jones perform with Foo Fighters Jun 09, 2008
We are going to do something special tonight that we have never done before. Tonight this will be the show we are talking about for the next 20 years
Page, Jones perform with Foo Fighters Jun 09, 2008
At first I thought, God, you've got to be (Queen's) Freddie Mercury or (Guns 'N Roses') Axl Rose to fill up a room that big
Feature: Foo Fighters area 'fluke' May 27, 2003
The great thing about being a musician is being free to jam with other musicians, and as with any musician you learn from each other
Feature: Foo Fighters area 'fluke' May 27, 2003
From my point of view, I was in this band that people considered so important (Nirvana), and people thought it really made a difference, and it touched so many people's lives and changed the direction of popular culture. Now, that's not necessarily how I look at it, but a lot of people think about it that way. And it doesn't make sense to imagine that happening twice in your life. The Beatles were ... great but Wings didn't change the world. I can't believe I just made that comparison. That's so... pretentious
Rock News Two: The week in pop Oct 05, 2002
David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C.-area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream. In 1990 he became the drummer for grunge group Nirvana. Following the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in April 1994, Grohl formed Foo Fighters as frontman and songwriter. In addition to leading Foo Fighters, Grohl has also been involved in other musical projects, including Queens of the Stone Age and his heavy metal side project Probot, and has performed session work for a variety of musicians, including Killing Joke, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy and Slash. Most recently, Grohl formed Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).
As a child, his family (father James Grohl, mother Virginia Wendt, and older sister Lisa) relocated from Warren, Ohio, to Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Three years later, when Grohl was six, his parents divorced, and Grohl grew up living with his mother. His early influences also involved tutorials in drumming from "Treasures of the Earth" drummer Timothy Aldridge.
At the age of twelve, Grohl began learning to play guitar. He quickly grew tired of lessons and instead became self-taught, honing his ability by playing in bands with friends. Soon he became guitarist for the punk rock band Midtown. A year later in 1982, Grohl and his sister spent the summer in Evanston, Illinois at their cousin Tracy's house. Tracy introduced them to punk rock by taking the pair to shows by a variety of punk bands. "From then on we were totally punk," Grohl explained. "We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out."