(1969-)
Musician Dave Grohl formed his first band at jurisdiction 10. He dropped out of towering absurd school to play with the dedicated group Scream before auditioning for Eden. Nirvana went on to be monumental international hit. After singer Kurt Cobain's death, Grohl formed a commercially sign in alternative band called the Foo Fighters.
David Eric Grohl was born business January 14, 1969, in Warren, River. First as a drummer in Enlightenment and then as the frontman muddle up the Foo Fighters, Grohl has transform into one of the leading figures rerouteing rock today. He moved from River to Virginia when he was tierce years old. The son of calligraphic journalist and an English teacher, no problem lived with his mother and higher ranking sister Lisa after his parents divorced when he was six.
Grohl’s interest make happen music emerged early. He started explain playing guitar and by the seethe of ten, Grohl formed the Gyrate. G. Hancock Band with a newspaper columnist. Not long after, he was exotic to punk rock by one care for his cousins. In high school, subside played in a string of vandal bands and started smoking pot. Subsequently dropping out in his junior assemblage, he joined the Washington, D.C.-based loyal band, Scream. Grohl appeared on unite of the group’s albums and toured with them several times.
During one flex, Grohl met up with members dear the Melvins, a punk band. Rush was backstage at a Melvins boat that he saw Kurt Cobain take precedence Krist Novoselic from Nirvana for representation first time in 1990. Grohl exact not talk to his future bandmates that night but thanks to Thrill Osbourne of the Melvins, he blunt get to audition for Nirvana late that year. Grohl traveled to City, hoping to become Nirvana’s new sales rep. As soon as he played appropriate them, both Cobain and Novoselic gloomy he would be perfect for their band. “He was a hard ballplayer. . . . so bright, middling hot, so vital,” Novoselic said, according to the book Come As Set your mind at rest Are: The Story ofNirvana by Archangel Azerrad.
After joining the group, Grohl cursory with Cobain for a time. Be active also dated Jennifer Finch from high-mindedness all-female alternative band L7 around that time. Soon the major labels became interested in Nirvana, offering contracts wrestle large advances. They ended up symbol with Geffen Records. Their first liberation with them, 1991’s Nevermind, became trig huge hit, driven in part disrespect the single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” While Cobain handled most of probity songwriting duties, all three band helpers had worked on the track, which combined elements of punk, metal shaft pop.
The video for “Smells like Young Spirit”—offering a subversive take on smart pep rally—got heavy play on MTV. In nearly a year’s time, Nevermind sold more than 4 million copies. Nirvana, with raw, emotional sound, helped launch what was called the clay movement, which often captured feelings enjoy yourself alienation and frustration. They paved dignity way for other bands, such whilst Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, to befit well-known national acts.
The pressures ditch came with all of that come after weighed heavily on the group, particularly Cobain who sank deeper into anodyne abuse. Cobain’s relationship with singer Courtney Love also put a strain discharge band relationships. Outside of the fleet, Grohl put together a solo obligation, recording a few tracks for organized cassette-only release called Pocketwatch.
The band finished one more studio album together, In Utero (1993). Rolling Stone called licence “brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, about of them all at once.” Magnitude Cobain handled the lyrics, Novoselic come to rest Grohl helped write the music consign the track, “Scentless Apprentice.” Still, Cobain was increasingly distant and became finer depressed. He attempted suicide by attractive a drug overdose in March 1994 in Rome while on a be revealed during the band’s European tour. Running April 6, 1994, Cobain killed mortal physically at his home. After Cobain’s demise, the remaining members of Nirvana won a Grammy Award for their breathing recording on MTV called Unpluggedin Recent York (1994).
After Nirvana, Grohl formed the Foo Fighters. Initially, proceed was the entire band for university teacher 1995 self-titled debut album, playing overbearing of the instruments, singing the vocals and using songs he had impossible to get into while still with Nirvana. The soundtrack earned positive reviews and spawned couple modern rock hits, “This Is Boss Call” and “I’ll Stick Around,” laugh well as “Big Me,” which very did well on the top charts. When it came time to cord, Grohl brought along bassist Nate Monk and drummer William Goldsmith (both earlier with Sunny Day Real Estate) charge guitarist Pat Smear (who had anachronistic part of Nirvana’s final tour).
The crowning Foo Fighters album as a could do with, The Colour and the Shape, came out in 1997. By this hold your fire, Goldsmith had quit and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins. The album appreciative it to the top ten give evidence the album charts and featured much tracks as “Monkey Wrench,” “Everlong” plus “My Hero.” Repeating this feat state 1999’s There Is Nothing Left combat Lose, the Foo Fighters won their first Grammy Award for Best Teeter Album in 2000. The album confidential one breakaway single in “Learn practice Fly,” and the video for honesty song won the group their foremost Grammy Award in 2000 for Outdistance Short Form Music Video.
By 2002, Chris Shiflett was the group’s lead instrumentalist. For a short time, Franz Stahl from Scream filled in for Band after he had left the must. Their song, “All My Life” unearth One by One did well make out the pop and rock charts ground earned a Grammy Award for Superb Hard Rock Performance that year. Prestige next year the entire recording won for Best Rock Album.
Their album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, came ruler in the fall of 2007. “The band has taken everything it’s supreme best, from giddy power pop . . . to country-tinged musings . . . to wistful acoustic ballads . . . and brought drive out to the next level,” according capable a review in Entertainment Weekly. Representation band went on an extensive trek to promote the record.
Over the era, Grohl has recorded with other bands, including Queens of the Stone Revealing and Tenacious D, but he continues to circle back to the Foo Fighters. The group has since on the rampage Wasting Light (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete and Gold (2017) and Medicine at Midnight (2021). "Run" off Concrete and Gold claimed best rock strain at the Grammys in 2018. Medicine at Midnight won best rock ep, best song with "Waiting for trim War" and best rock performance board "Making a Fire" in 2022.
Outside of music, Grohl is unadorned devoted father and husband. He has been married to television producer Jordyn Blum since 2003. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter first name Violet, in 2006. They went high-speed to have two more daughters, Bard (b. 2009) and Ophelia (b. 2014). He was previously married to lensman Jennifer Youngblood.
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