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[Kifimbo]

Is Dave Grohl bigger than Kurt Cobain right now?

Cobain was much bigger during the Nevermind period, but it lasted a short time for obvious reasons. Grohl is just fine wine who only gets better with age (even if you think their more recent albums aren't as good).

If you haven't yet, I invite you to listen to his SXSW from two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efv0Y5Fs7m4

 

[AlphaSnake]

Yet more Dave and Foo in the news. This is awesome. Dave asks if any fans know the words to Tom Sawyer. Brian raises his hand. This happens.

https://youtu.be/8_DmAwIsuIs

Hahahaha wow.

BRIIIIIAN!!!

 

[fluffydelusions]

Yet more Dave and Foo in the news. This is awesome. Dave asks if any fans know the words to Tom Sawyer. Brian raises his hand. This happens.

https://youtu.be/8_DmAwIsuIs

I just saw this...amazing

 

[TunaMarshmallow]

Definite props to Dave Grohl and the band. Almost makes me forget that I despise them because they believe HIV has no connection to AIDS.

Not kidding.

Whoa. Wow. That led to my reading this Wikipedia entry. So sad.

 

[televator]

If those guys are foo' fighters, why dont they fight foo's?

 

[oggob]

Yet more Dave and Foo in the news. This is awesome. Dave asks if any fans know the words to Tom Sawyer. Brian raises his hand. This happens.

https://youtu.be/8_DmAwIsuIs

This is all sorts of amazing!

 

[neorej]

If those guys are foo' fighters, why dont they fight foo's?

Who says they aren't?

 

[WascallyWabbit]

Dave Grohl is seriously one of the coolest dudes around, guy legitimately loves his craft and appreciates the fans

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Whoa. Wow. That led to my reading this Wikipedia entry. So sad.

Once again, only the bass player believed that and he has since changed his mind.

 

[mackattk]

It is pretty awesome how they let people of the audience up on the stage to give them a once in a lifetime experience that they will never forget. A could imagine a lot of the music stars and other famous people have a superiority complex and they wouldn't dare let a common person steal their spotlight for a song.

Grohl really has to be one of the coolest, down to earth people out there.

 

[Lionheart1827]

It is pretty awesome how they let people of the audience up on the stage to give them a once in a lifetime experience that they will never forget. A could imagine a lot of the music stars and other famous people have a superiority complex and they wouldn't dare let a common person steal their spotlight for a song.

Grohl really has to be one of the coolest, down to earth people out there.

Another part of it is the legit fear of psychos/idiots going on stage and fucking shit up.

Dimebag Darrell is the most immediate one(killed by a psycho with a gun, along with a few others), and then what happened with Randy Blythe from Lamb of God in Czech Republic(kid staged dive off stage, fell on his head, died. Randy was in Czech prison for awhile and was found not guilty).

I just got finished reading Randy's book on his experiences with this, and a lot of bands have a "No people on stage at all" policy to prevent that kind of stuff.

But yeah Dave Grohl is awesome, wish I could've saw them at Yankee stadium recently.

 

[Wreav]

A gif of the jumbotron with Dave smiling like a madman while duder belts it out plz.

That was awesome

 

[Guy LeDouche]

brb watching this loop for the rest of the day

Spoiler

thanks!

 

[Coins]

It is pretty awesome how they let people of the audience up on the stage to give them a once in a lifetime experience that they will never forget. A could imagine a lot of the music stars and other famous people have a superiority complex and they wouldn't dare let a common person steal their spotlight for a song.

Grohl really has to be one of the coolest, down to earth people out there.

Wes Borland will let people play guitar during Limp Bizkit concerts if you promise you know the parts. Lol. There's some cool videos of it happening on youtube.

 

[Birbo]

Yet more Dave and Foo in the news. This is awesome. Dave asks if any fans know the words to Tom Sawyer. Brian raises his hand. This happens.

https://youtu.be/8_DmAwIsuIs

Wow, thanks for that. All kinds of awesome.

 

[adamsappel]

Look how happy Grohl is for that guy! Such a cool dude. I highly recommend his Sonic Highways HBO series. Really fascinating and he comes across as down-to-Earth and genuine.

 

[Coins]

It's crazy how if Nirvana hadn't ended, we probably would have never seen how much more Dave Grohl could offer as a musician. Grunge was a phase, but Foo Fighters make timeless rock music.

 

[Tadaima]

Grohl seems to be a very down-to-earth man who absolutely adores his fans.

About 5 years back, my brother had the chance to meet him one-to-one.

His girlfriend got him tickets through a Twitter raffle from one of the other band members. It allowed them a "back stage pass" to mingle with the press and invitees. When they tried to enter, they were denied by the doorman since they weren't on the list. However, by chance, the band member who raffled the tickets walked past. She recognised him and asked him to intervene so he did, and he asked them to follow him. He took them along a quiet corridor and into a dressing room, where none other than Dave Grohl was sitting, eating a ready-made salad from a plastic container. My brother and his girlfriend sat and chatted casually with him and the other band member for about 15 minutes in the dressing room as he finished his meal. He remembers it as one of the most bizarre and surreal moments of his life, and as something that will always stick with him.

 

[Wreav]

Another week, another Dave video. Man begins crying to "My Hero", Dave drags him up on stage, and sings it to him, 1 on 1.

https://youtu.be/yzgPBV4wGgU

 

[AlphaSnake]

^^^ LOL that dude was so drunk.

 

[Bel Marduk]

Grohl is great.

Kinda sucks that he wasn't in Montage of Heck.

I wish it were more of him and less Courtney Love.

What a disgusting person she is.