"I was breaking up with a girl that I had been with for a while, so I was sort of in the middle of this intense emotional period," he said. Deal? In 2000, he played drums and sang on a track, "Goodbye Lament", from Tony Iommi's album Iommi. Stahl was fired prior to recording of Foo Fighters' third album[11] and was replaced by touring guitarist Chris Shiflett, who later became a full-fledged member during the recording of One by One. [92], In October 2011, Grohl temporarily joined Cage the Elephant as a replacement on tour after drummer Jared Champion's appendix burst. Disagreements, however, weren't always about music alone. We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out. In 2000, the band recruited Queen guitarist Brian May to add some guitar flourish to a cover of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", a song which Foo Fighters previously recorded as a B-side. [138][139] Grohl's two primary guitars are based on the Gibson ES-335. [59] Afterward, the band cancelled the remainder of its European tour. After touring for the self-titled album for more than a year, Grohl returned home and began work on the soundtrack to the 1997 movie Touch. The cover of Foo Fighters' first album in 1995 featured a disintegrator pistol used by sci-fi character Buck Rogers. The second Foo Fighters album, The Colour and the Shape, was released in May 1997 and cemented Foo Fighters as a staple of rock radio. He also has another signature guitar called the "Memphis Dave Grohl ES-335" in silver finish that is otherwise similar to the DG-335. Dave Grohl, the frontman of the Foo Fighters and a consummate lovely guy, has been married to Jordyn Blum since 2003. WebDave Grohl shares three daughters with his wife Jordyn Blum. Grohl uses D'Addario 0.11-0.49 gauge strings, but his playing style is so aggressive that he uses a 0.42 gauge for the A string and a 0.60 gauge for the low E string. Grohl spent the initial months with Nirvana traveling to various labels as the band shopped for a deal, eventually signing with DGC Records. During the early 90s, Grohl dated photographer Jennifer Youngblood. As a photographer, Youngblood is also behind the cover art for Foo Fighters' first album. [60] Beginning with the show on July 4, Foo Fighters began selling new tour merchandise rebranding the band's North American tour as the Broken Leg Tour. He has described himself as a coffee addict who drinks an average of six cups of coffee every morning; in 2009, he was admitted to a hospital with chest pains caused by a caffeine overdose. [112], On 25 June 2022 Grohl duetted with Paul McCartney when he headlined the Glastonbury Festival. They even took a leap off stage and onto the big screen with the horror comedy "Studio 666" in 2022, per New York Post. A roadway in downtown Warren named "David Grohl Alley" has been dedicated to him with murals by local artists. [96] In what was regarded as a Nirvana reunion with McCartney as a stand-in for Kurt Cobain, this was the first time in eighteen years that the three had played alongside each other. [71], In 1997, Grohl played a few songs with David Bowie for Bowie's 50th birthday concert, which was recorded and shown on pay-per-view later that year. In the few times that Grohl has spoken publicly about his ex-wife (and one-time "X-Files" co-star), he tends to keep it brief, acknowledging his own mistakes and never saying a word against her. "Who else covers a Swedish death metal song while playing in a grunge band in the early 90s? It just seemed that everything I did wasn't good enough for him, or anyone else". Listen to 'Rescued' From the Album 'But Here We Are' Available June 2 Pre-order link in bio. some of music's biggest names performing Times Like These, Scott exhumed another Mission Impossible track, The 20 greatest Foo Fighters songs ranked. In February 1996, Grohl and his then-wife Jennifer Youngblood made a brief cameo appearance on The X-Files third-season episode "Pusher".[45]. We weren't ready to get married,"he once told Melody Maker (via NME). [78], Grohl lent his drumming skills to other artists during the early 2000s. [68] The eleventh Foo Fighters studio album But Here We Are is set to be released on June 2, 2023.[69]. [163], Grohl's first solo Rolling Stone cover story was published on December 4, 2014.[164]. [90][91], Also in 2010, Grohl helped write and performed on drums for "Watch This" with guitarist Slash and Duff McKagan on Slash's self-titled album that also included many other famous artists. Foo Fighters covered Killing Joke's "Requiem" during the late 1990s, and were even joined by Killing Joke singer Jaz Coleman for a performance of the song at a show in New Zealand in 2003. [50] Grohl and Hawkins joined May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor to perform "Tie Your Mother Down", with Grohl standing in on vocals for Freddie Mercury. [159][160], Grohl's hometown of Warren unveiled gigantic 902lb (409kg) drumsticks in 2012 to honor him. Dave Grohl and Pat Smear of the Foo Fighters performing in San Bernardino. He has been quoted as saying, "I was 17 and extremely anxious to see the world, so I did it. I spent my teenage years at the club and saw some shows that changed my life. There were other factors as well: Grohls divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, with whom Smear was a close friend, and the way Grohl dictated the band also played into his decision. In an Apple Music Essentials interview, the band talked about a rocky period while working on their fourth album, "One by One." [145] Grohl has also participated in two counter-protests against the Westboro Baptist Church for their anti-gay stance, once by performing "Keep It Clean" on the back of a flatbed truck[146] and most recently by Rickrolling them. and Probot. Rather than using his own name, Grohl released the cassette under the pseudonym "Late! [37] Two decades later, on April 10, 2014, Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana. Grohl described the recording experience as "intoxicating at times" because the band members were left completely to their own devices. His primary recording guitar is an original cherry red Gibson Trini Lopez Standard that he bought in the early 1990s because he liked the look of the diamond-shaped sound holes. He appeared as the drummer for the entire concert, and a year later he returned with Foo Fighters and played another set there, this time as guitarist and vocalist. Dave Grohl with his Ex-Wife (Jennifer Leigh Youngblood) But you live and you learn. Grohl did not want the effort to be considered the start of a solo career, so he recruited other band members: former Germs and touring Nirvana guitarist Pat Smear and two members of the recently disbanded Sunny Day Real Estate, William Goldsmith (drums) and Nate Mendel (bass). [21] At age 17, Grohl auditioned with local Washington, D.C., favorites Scream to fill the vacancy left by the departure of drummer Kent Stax. [83], In June 2008, Grohl was Paul McCartney's special guest for a concert at the Anfield football stadium in Liverpool, in one of the central events of the English city's year as European Capital of Culture. Cobain arrived on the third day and the band recorded a demo of "You Know You're Right". [143] The song, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners", appears on Foo Fighters' 2007 release Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and features Kaki King. [58], On June 12, 2015, while playing a show in Gothenburg, Sweden, Grohl fell off the stage, breaking his leg. "[13], At 13, Grohl and his sister spent the summer at their cousin Tracey's house in Evanston, Illinois. It was there that he turned his basement into a recording studio where the 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose was recorded. It was released on April 30, 2021, on the Coda Collection via Amazon Prime. Unlike Grohl, Youngblood is a private person and not a public figure, so the truth is that information about her is pretty limited. CP Dave Grohl before live Toronto show On divorcing his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood: I was 25, my wife was even younger. Absolutely adorable. It was during the couple's 1994 honeymoon in Dublin, Ireland that the debut track was written, reportedNME. [11] Smear was replaced by Grohl's former Scream bandmate Franz Stahl. Grohl's note read, in part, "Though I'm halfway around the world right now, my heart is with you both, and I want you to know that when you come home, there's two tickets to any Foos show, anywhere, and two cold beers waiting for yous [sic]. In a nice life-turning-full-circle moment, in 2013 Dave and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins inducted the Canadian rock legends into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and also performed a section of 2112 with the band. Grohl was a longtime fan of Smears first band, the volatile and highly combustible hardcore punk band The Germs. The Foo Fighters song Friend Of A Friend (originally recorded by Dave for his Pocketwatch cassette album) on 2005s In Your Honor details his memories of that period, with lyrics such as 'he plays an old guitar with a coin found by the phone' inspired by Kurt. Not long after Nirvana broke up, Grohl went through his own bad breakup. Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images. He wakes up at 5am every day. She had a map of my house and said she was going to kill me, then herself, he revealed to FHM magazine. He took the record back home to Virginia with him and fell in love with Neil Pearts innovative drumming. Jennifer Youngblood was Daves first wife. It was complete and not open to outside tampering."[49]. On November 10, 2014, Foo Fighters released their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, which reached number two in the United States. Grohl is a doting dad, and his girls seem to have inherited his musical talent. On May 20, 2015, David Letterman selected Grohl and the Foo Fighters to play "Everlong" as the last musical guest on the final episode of Late Show with David Letterman. After going back and forth with Bushell a few times, he jokingly conceded victory to her, and later wrote and performed a song in her honor. [152], In 1994, Grohl married Jennifer Leigh Youngblood, a photographer from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. But less is widely known about Grohl's first wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood, and their marriage. The bands first composition, Bitch, was written in praise of Daves dog, BeeGee. [113][114], Since his first appearance in 1992, Grohl has been a musical guest on Saturday Night Live 14 timesmore than any other musician. Single. In 2021, Grohl released an autobiography, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. This article is about the American musician. After four months in the studio, with the sessions finished, Grohl accepted an invitation to join Queens of the Stone Age and helped them to record their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. (Grohl can be seen drumming for the band in the video for the song "No One Knows".) Grohl and Foo Fighters released their fifth album In Your Honor on June 14, 2005. Grohl acknowledges that his split with his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, was because of his own infidelities. That painful schism in The verse is just bullshit, its nothing, I wrote it in a bathroom, but the chorus on the other hand means a lot to me, he said. Perhaps because of contractual complications with Nirvanas label, or perhaps simply to have a giggle, he opted to be credited on the EP as Dale Nixon, the same pseudonym Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn previously employed when playing bass parts on his own albums. [153] On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum. On October 13, 2007, he performed in the SNL Digital Short "People Getting Punched Just Before Eating". Quantity. Grohl stated in a 2014 episode of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways that Cobain reacted by kissing him upon first hearing a demo of "Alone + Easy Target" that Grohl had recently recorded. [110][111] On March 25, 2022, the self-titled Dream Widow EP was released to digital streaming services featuring eight tracks ranging from thrash, death and extreme metal. He left temporarily and returned with a cast to finish the concert. On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum. It premiered on HBO on October 17, 2014. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. His primary acoustic guitar is a black Elvis Presley model Gibson Dove. [105], Between August and November 2020, Grohl performed in an online drum battle with ten-year-old drummer and YouTube celebrity Nandi Bushell, who had challenged Grohl after previously covering songs from Nirvana and Foo Fighters. Day! [35], Prior to their 1994 European tour, the band scheduled session time at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle to work on demos. He also referenced Edgar Winter's instrumental "Frankenstein" as the song that made him want to become a musician. Lasting just under an hour, the speech covered Grohl's musical life from his youth through to his role with the Foo Fighters and emphasized the importance of each individual's voice, regardless of who the individual is: "There is no right or wrongthere is only your voice What matters most is that it's your voice. HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD. Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, release previously recorded covers of songs by Jewish artists, an eight-part documentary miniseries of the same name, Learn how and when to remove this template message, The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, "The Storyteller by Dave Grohl a Foo Fighter pulls his punches", "Jay-Z, Foo Fighters welcomed into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame", "Virginia Hanlon, teacher, is Bride of News Writer", "Interview: 'I've never gotten off on chaos', "Dave Grohl: Hardcore, Nirvana And Tears For Fears? Dave Grohl married photographer, Jennifer Leigh Youngblood in 1994 but divorced in December 1997. Jennifer Youngblood is sometimes referred to as, Jennifer Youngblood-Grohl. In April 1992, Dave formed a short-lived band called Allister Lobb, with Mikey Dees, the frontman of Olympia punks Fitz Of Depression, on guitar and his big sister Lisa on bass. He also performed drums for their 2012 album Rize of the Fenix. Foo Fighters have announced six more headline dates in the U.S. this year with support from The Breeders at four of those shows. 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[5] When Freak Baby fired its bass player and reshuffled its lineup, Grohl switched to drums. Eddie Vedders Ohana Festival has unveiled its 2023 line-up, featuring the Pearl Jam frontman headlining alongside Foo Fighters and The Killers. They reside in Los Angeles and have three daughters, born in 2006, 2009 and 2014. Tracey introduced them to punk rock by taking the pair to shows by a variety of punk bands. Expect a full album from the Foos guitarist later this year A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters have endured recently, 11th album But Here We Are arrives in June. Grohl's drum kit, as designed by Drum Workshop, features five different sized toms ranging from 5x8 inches to 16x18 inches, a 19-inch crash cymbal, two 20-inch crash cymbals, an 18-inch China cymbal, a 24-inch ride cymbal, and a standard kick drum, snare drum, and hi-hat.[140]. [158] As for producing music, he refuses to use in-ear monitors despite their ability to protect his ears because it "removes [him] from the natural atmosphere sound so [he] cannot hear [his] bandmates". Dave played his first gig with Nirvana at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, Washington, on October 11, 1990. No, Arnold Schwarzenegger didnt make a cameo appearance on Smells Like Teen Spirit, but the Tama Black Beauty snare drum Dave Grohl used to record the song, hired from Drum Doctors on Sherman Way in Los Angeles, was nicknamed The Terminator. 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Only Dave." The squabbles they experience as a band may be of the fictional variety, but there have been real disagreements throughout their history. [135], Cal Jam 18 was held October 56, 2018 in San Bernardino, California which featured the Foo Fighters and a Nirvana reunion.[136][137]. WebBirthday: January 14, 1969 ( Capricorn) Born In: Warren, Ohio, United States 113 51 Drummers #3 Hard Rock Musicians #1 Rock Singers #37 Quick Facts Also Known As: David Eric Grohl Age: 54 Years, 54 Year Old Males Family: Spouse/Ex-: Jordyn Blum (m. 2003), Jennifer Youngblood (m. 19931997) father: James Grohl mother: Virginia Grohl Jennifer Youngblood with her ex [123] The documentary was released April 30, 2021, as What Drives Us. Grohl would later record the song for the Pocketwatch cassette. The band have shared a 13-second snippet of what sounds like a brand-new song. This Is A Call, the opening track on Foo Fighters self-titled debut, and the albums first single, was written in a Dublin hotel room while he and his first wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood, were on honeymoon in Ireland in 1994. He said, "I've seen people die. In 2001, Grohl performed on Tenacious D's debut album, and appeared in the video for lead single "Tribute" as a demon. It would have been better had we not got married. He worked with them closely on their EP. The death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain had happened earlier in the year and the release of a new album under a new project name with a new bride was a lot to experience in a short span of time. Cobain said that he was excited at the possibility of having Novoselic and Grohl contribute more to the band's songwriting. During this period, he taught himself to play drums. Drum nerds might like to know that a Black Beauty snare also features on two of the best rock albums of the 1980s: Metallicas Master Of Puppets and Def Leppards Pyromania. [2][1] Grohl developed a thrash metal record for a fictional band named Dream Widow (who self-destructed 25 years ago), as developed for a horror-comedy movie titled Studio 666. Grohl's primary stage guitar is his signature model Pelham Blue Gibson DG-335, which was designed by Gibson based on the Trini Lopez Standard specs, but in a different color and with a stop tailpiece instead of the Trini Lopez's trapeze tailpiece. Dave was earlier married to Jennifer Youngblood, whom he divorced in 1997. One track from the session that ultimately didnt make the cut on what became In Utero was a cover of Swedish death metal band Unleasheds Onwards Into Countess Battles, which originally appeared on the bands 1992 album Shadows In The Deep. But you live and you learn.". [84] Grohl joined McCartney's band singing backup vocals and playing guitar on "Band on the Run" and drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "I Saw Her Standing There". In September, the all-star covers album by the Alice Cooper-led Hollywood Vampires supergroup was released and features Grohl playing drums on the medley "One/Jump Into the Fire". | Source: Getty Images. In August 2000, Grohl voiced Daniel Dotson, an egotistical art instructor, in Is It Fall Yet?, the first of two film-length installments forMTV's animated series Daria. According toThe Guardian, Dave Grohl has shared that infidelity played a role in his divorce from Jennifer Youngblood in the '90s. [3] Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Nirvana in 2014 and as a member of Foo Fighters in 2021. [46] With the album seemingly complete, Grohl headed home to Virginia with a copy of the rough mixes and found himself unhappy with the results. Later, after speaking to Bushell over a video chat, Grohl offered to have Bushell perform with the Foo Fighters on stage, an offer he made good on when she appeared with the band during their August 26, 2021 show at the L.A. Forum, where she performed drums on "Everlong" as the show's finale. In February 2013, Grohl filled in as host of Chelsea Lately for a week. [94], In 2012, following the departure of Joey Castillo from Queens of the Stone Age, Grohl performed on some tracks as drummer on their 2013 album Like Clockwork. [117] On February 6, 2010, he appeared as a middle-aged punk rock drummer reuniting the group "Crisis of Conformity" (fronted by Fred Armisen) after 25 years in a skit later on in the episode. The couple met two years prior [62][63] On November 3, Foo Fighters performed in Cesena, where Grohl invited some "Rockin' 1000" members onto the stage to perform with the band. Dave Grohl's First Wife: All We Know about Jennifer Youngblood and Their Marriage Zac Brown's Wife: The Star's Previous Marriage to Shelly Brown and a New Engagement Annabelle Hawkins Is Taylor Hawkins' Daughter Who Wanted One of Dad's Songs to Be about Her The drummer once cleared the room at an Olympia house party by playing Primus Frizzle Fry album on the stereo. The Foo Fighters were on the verge of collapse, and Smear and Grohl were estranged for years. "[28] Grohl told Q: "I remember being in the same room with them and thinking, 'What? They play themselves in the film, so naturally, their over-the-top silliness and ability to make fun of their personas come into play as they encounter demonic possessions and carnage. However, Dave maintains that only one solitary snare hit from a lengthy drum track he taped with producer Butch Vig actually made it on to the track. Nurture it. he was married to a photographer named Jennifer Leigh Youngblood but the couple got divorced in the year 1997. On the 2nd of August 2003, he married Jordyn Blum and had three children; Violet Maye, Harper Willow, and Ophelia Saint. [76] However, the controversy failed to create a lasting rift between the bands. Dave Grohl is one of the most famous and influential musicians in the business, but many know nothing about his first marriage to Jennifer Youngblood. 1.[103]. Rather, it sounds like the timing just wasn't right. I promise [Foo Fighters will] see you soon". We werent ready to get married. Dave Grohl also known as David Eric Grohl is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Green Day will be making their Danny Wimmer Presents debut in September, joining Foo Fighters, Tool and Avenged Sevenfold as Louder Than Life headliners, He was just 16 when he put out his first record, Liking Primus made Dave seriously uncool to Kurts friends, The success of Nirvanas breakthrough hit owes much to The Terminator, Dave once got Nirvana to record a death metal track, Before Foos, Dave started a band with his sister, Foo Fighters first single was written on Daves honeymoon, Dave got Foo Fighters logo tattooed on his neck in London, Dave found true love in an unorthodox fashion, He once contributed a single snare drum beat to a Michael Jackson song. [106] The videos of the drum battle received tens of millions of views.[107][108]. [101], On November 6, 2013, Grohl played drums at the 2013 CMA Awards replacing drummer Chris Fryar for Country Music band Zac Brown Band. Grohl had previously been impressed by her talent and energy. The throne was unveiled at a concert in Washington, D.C. on July 4, where Grohl used the stage's video screens to show the crowd video of him falling from the stage in Gothenburg as well as X-rays of his broken leg. show that he would appear with Grohl on the next Queens of the Stone Age album. I don't know who's playing drums on it, he said, but it ain't me.. [115][116], Grohl has also appeared in several sketches on SNL. Strictly speaking, the track was more a Dave track than a Nirvana track, as the talented drummer played all the instruments on it, but Kurt joined in on vocals, the pair ditching the original lyrics in favour of simply grunting the word 'Meat!' His song "Everlong," was inspired by his pain over the divorce. Nirvana The album features eight songs, each inspired by a different U.S. city's musical history and culture researched by Grohl himself.