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David Eric Grohl is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and film director. He is the founder, frontman, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Foo Fighters since 1994, and was the longest-serving drummer for Nirvana from 1990 to 1994.

Foo Fighters meld melodic elements with heavier ones, and have found worldwide success and won multiple awards, most notably with four of their albums winning Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. With Nirvana, Grohl established himself as a highly appreciated drummer and in 2014 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility alongside Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. Grohl is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, and wrote the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot. He has also recorded and frequently toured with rock band Queens of the Stone Age.

✵ 14. January 1969
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Famous Dave Grohl Quotes

“What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? "Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?”

Dave Grohl

"Give the Drummer Some," http://www.fooarchive.com/gpb/tenjokes.htm www.fooarchive.com (1995)

“Masturbation is one of the safest ways to explore your own sexuality.”

Dave Grohl

Sex in the 90s, Part IX: The Safest Sex of All https://web.archive.org/web/19961222033827/http://www.mtv.com/MTVNEWS/sex90/sex.html

“I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.”

Dave Grohl

Maxim Magazine (January 2008)

“Perez [Hilton]: Are you drunk right now?
Grohl: No, I gotta play.
Perez: Britney Spears has been getting wasted all the time, hasn't stopped her.
Grohl: Yeah, but she doesn't have to sing live.”

Dave Grohl

Quoted in Shirley Halperin, "My Summer With the Foo Fighters," http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20056567_9,00.html Entertainment Weekly (2007-09-21)

“Around the time that I recorded the first Foo Fighters tape, I was reading a lot of books on UFO’s. … So, since I had recorded the first record by myself, playing all the instruments, but I wanted people to think that it was a group, I figured that FOO FIGHTERS - WW2 term for UFO’s - might lead people to believe that it was more than just one guy. Silly, huh? Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it’s the stupidest fucking band name in the world.”

Dave Grohl

Quoted in Clash Music, "Foo Fighters on Their Band Name" http://www.clashmusic.com/news/foo-fighters-on-their-band-name Clash Music (2010-01-11)

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