Former Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, has explained how the backlash he received from fans of his old band only motivated him to make Foo Fighters the success they are today. Speaking with MOJO, the Foos frontman said: “They were like, ‘How dare you be in a band again? Your music is fucking shit and that…
In October 1992, Nirvana were at the peak of their powers and were undoubtedly one, if not, the hottest band in the world. As a band, they won the heart’s of millions across the globe world thanks to the success of Nevermind the year before. The Seattle punks gained a reputation for putting on notorious…
In a brand new interview with The Guardian, Foo Fighters’ leading man and the former drummer of the legendary grunge band Nirvana, Dave Grohl has shared some of his candid moments of the early days of the band. One such moment he shared with The Guardian was the first time Grohl heard Nirvana. Hearing ‘Bleach’,…
Following the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain in 1994, Dave Grohl courageously turned a leaf to an exciting new chapter as the frontman of Foo Fighters. Until this point, Gohl was predominantly a drummer, but as the leader of Foo Fighters, he began to hone his skills as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter….
When Collins first started gaining traction as a solo artist, the 1980s were just getting started looking ridiculous. Although Collins looks like one of the most average people ever to become a pop star, seeing him wear tie-dye shirts and/or a suit as he was crooning made rock and roll look like it reached peak…
Kurt Cobain described the back cover of 1993’s In Utero, which he designed, as “sex and woman and in utero and vaginas and birth and death”. It was a semi-ironic summary of what would be the third and final Nirvana album, and it neatly addressed the reason one song didn’t make the cut on an…
While all rock stars are rock enthusiasts – or at least should be – Dave Grohl seems to be the most humble and reverent. Like the musical Keanu Reeves, the Foo Fighters frontman never shies from applauding his fellow musicians, whether it’s The Beatles or an unknown teenage band in Washington trying to make their…
The death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain came as a shock to the entire music world. Although Cobain’s struggles with mental health and drug addiction had become well-known by 1994, no one could have imagined the extremes that Cobain would eventually go to – least of all Dave Grohl, Cobain’s bandmate and one-time roommate. From…
No one could have predicted the massive shot to stardom that Nirvana would have with the release of Nevermind. Since the band were more than happy to get by in punk squalors and live off the meagre stipend they would get from playing shows around Seattle, Kurt Cobain’s songs would become the anthem for the…
Kurt Cobain was never one to censor his opinion all that often. Even at the expense of his own band, Cobain could be particularly vicious when it came to talking about anything that he saw as disingenuous, from artists that took themselves way too seriously to critiquing his album Nevermind for being nothing but a…