All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
I didn't think Nevermind would be that much different to Bleach - just a progression.
I don't like to have people do stuff for me. I don't like to have runners go out and get me meals - it's just not normal.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Before founding the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl was the drummer for Dain Bramage, Nirvana and Scream.
Dave Grohl was born on January 14th, 1969 in Warren, Ohio.
Dave Grohl and Nate Mendell are the only original members still in the Foo Fighters.
Dave (on his cameo on the X-Files): I wanted to be the monster or the alien, something like that instead of like a dumb little cameo. I thought that'd be kinda fun.
Dave: The first time I ever sat down with Michael Stipe was over breakfast at his vegetarian-friendly restaurant in Athens. He turned me on to 'facon' and 'soysage'.
Dave: I stole some chewing tobacco, it was green apple-flavour Redman Chew. I went into our laundry room and started chewing it and got so violently ill that I never chewed tobacco again.
Dave: I usually wear those kind of bikini briefs with the male model on the cover of the box. I kinda like them for the suspension.
Dave: The Rolling Stones didn't give us a guest list, they reserved a hundred tickets that we could buy for $64 a piece. So if I wanted my sister or my girlfriend to come, I had to buy a f****** ticket. And they didn't give us a dressing room in the venue, we had to sit in the trailer out in the parking lot. That was f***** up, that was bull****.
Dave: I remember watching Live Aid, live. I think I was maybe 14 or 15 years old and at that point in my life I was totally immersed in punk rock, and like, speed metal. I did not like melodic, popular rock music. I just didn't. I refused it. At that point I was just completely surrounded by punk rock and we watched Live Aid to laugh at everybody. We thought 'Ughhh - Live Aid, let's watch it. It's horrible'. We turned it on and after Queen were finished, all of us looked at each other and thought 'Oh my God, that was completely incredible. That was awesome. Queen are the best. They're amazing.' [chuckles] And they were, and that day they proved themselves to be the greatest live band you'd ever seen. I mean Live Aid was huge. man. How many bands played that thing? Everybody played that gig. Queen smoked 'em. They just took everybody. They walked away being the greatest band you'd ever seen in your life and it was unbelievable. And I think that's, that's what made the band so great, that's why they should be recognised as one of the greatest rock bands of all time because they could connect with an audience. Sixty thousand people. Like Wembley Stadium. You know how hard it is to get someone's attention who's on the other side of a room? Imagine a stadium. Imagine making them sing along with you, though they've never sung a note in their life, but somehow making, making a mass, thousands and thousands, connect with your music. It's not easy. Queen could do it, man.
Dave: Stoned prayer is the best. When I was in Catholic school, we’d get high and have our morning prayers. It’d be like, 'Duuuude, I think I just accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior... I’m going to the candy machine'.
Dave (on perversions): I don't really have any. I guess I like being beat up a little, I think that's kind of fun.
Dave: Jennifer asked if there were any spirits in the house. The glass on the Ouija board spelled out, 'Y-E-S'. I was just looking at Jennifer and she wasn't moving at all. The glass was travelling without her pushing it. Jennifer then asked, 'What happened here?' The glass spelled out, 'M-U-R-D-E-R-E-D'. I asked who was murdered and got the reply 'M-Y-B-A-B-Y'.
Dave: There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Dave: Lemmy makes everyone else seem like a poo-butt junior schoolboy. That guy is the King, man. He knows it! There's no question. He walked into the room and I really felt that for the first time I'd met a real rock and roller.
Dave (on Kurt Cobain): He had a great sense of humor and was one of the most unique people I've ever met: eccentric and unlike anyone else in the world, and a gentleman to boot--polite and shy, but fucking hilarious. There is this dark cloud that hangs over the name Nirvana, but we had a lot of fun. We spent half our time rolling on the ground with our fucking ribs aching and tears rolling down our face because things that were going on were so funny.
Dave (his favourite joke): Why was six scared of seven? Because seven, eight, nine.
Dave: Ikea is great. Cheap, easy to put together... it comes with all the pegs and the screws - you don't need languages with the instructions.
Dave: Hollywood has been shit for years, and the coolest movies have always been low budget productions or foreign films.
Dave: The best time for the gum is just before getting onstage. Onstage I need a minty-fresh microphone. There's no gum that keeps it's flavour for more than 20 minutes. I need flavour. I like me some Dentyne Ice. I just know the colours: black, blue or green.
Dave: There was a ghost in my old house, and other musicians from Seattle were present when it happened. We played with the Ouija board, and some unbelievable things occurred. I'm not really interested in supernatural phenomena, but ever since then, I believe in their existence that little bit more.
Dave: I love flying. I never learned, but I wanted to. It was around the time of the 'Learn To Fly' video. How about Bruce Dickinson, flying chartered jets? I heard he was flying boy bands around and stuff. I really wanted to learn. I started getting the instructional video tapes and wanted to sign up for classes, but you can't half-ass it if you're learning to fly. You have to be devoted, and I just couldn't do that.
Dave: I'm kind of claustrophobic, sometimes in airplanes I can't stand that fact that I can't get off if I want to. I have crazy claustrophobic dreams; weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down — 'oh my God, it's a casket'. Just freaky stuff like that.
Dave: F*** Elvis. I hate Elvis.
Dave: I have crazy vivid dreams every night and remember them all. I once dreamt that I had drowned. I was in the water trying to catch my breath and someone swam up to me and said 'It's OK you can let go and you can breath now.' All of a sudden, I wasn't in the water anymore. I was just floating. I took this breath of air and realised I'd died. It wasn't so much the visual of the dream, but the feeling that, 'OK this is the moment I've waited for my whole life.' It felt so real, no pain, just that this was it. I floated through this series of tunnels and wound up in a gallery with other people floating around. It was pretty wild feeling waking up from that.
Dave (on Disneyland): People who work at Disneyland who walk around dressed up as Goofy, apparently, under no circumstances are they allowed to remove their outfits when they're in the parks. So you have these people in 80lb Goofy costumes, running around in 110 degree heat. Even if you happen to vomit, you're not allowed to remove your costume in front of the children because they'll freak out and won't believe that Goofy is a real animal. Once you're wearing those costumes, you're not even allowed a regular piss break. I guess you could just piss in your suit. But imagine if you're five years old and the first time you met Minnie Mouse she smelled of piss and vomit.
Dave: I never fancied coke at all, because a friend of mine had a heart attack outside a 7-11 when he was 18 doing coke. So it's always been this evil, deadly drug - plus if I started doing it, I'm the kind of person would just fucking blow every cent I had to shove the world up my nose, I'm hyperactive enough.
Dave: Burping onstage usually generates more applause than our f****** music. And, evidently it's a sign your singing from the right place - from your stomach and not your throat.
Dave: The great thing about bowling is that you get better the more beer you drink. It's like a pub sport. I've never broken 200, my high score is 198.
Dave (on autobiographies): It's the most egotistical thing anybody could possibly do. I read Motley Crue's - it's hilarious, but all embellished crap. It makes them seem like complete a*******: We raped chicks and did heroin. I don't want people to know that much.
Dave: I did absinthe with Taylor a while back. We ended up daring each other to hold a lit cigarette jammed between our arms. We giggled as our flesh burned. That’s what absinthe does to you.
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