Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl (born David Eric Grohl; January 14, 1969 in Warren, Ohio) is a rock musician, who is the frontman for the Foo Fighters Before the Foo fighters he was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana from 1990 until the band split up in 1994 after frontman Kurt Cobain's death. He formed the band Foo Fighters later that year.

Nirvana

Buzz Osborne of The Melvins recommended him to Nirvana after the departure of drummer Chad Channing. Dave Grohl joined Nirvana and moved to Olympia, Washington in 1990, where he shared a tiny apartment with Cobain. (He later moved to Seattle.) Grohl's distinctively heavy-handed drumming, a style he learned from banging marching band sticks on his bed as a teenager, were a driving force behind Nirvana's breakthrough album Nevermind.

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Buzz Osborne - The Melvins - Nirvana - Chad Channing - Olympia, Washington - 1990 - Nevermind

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Although Grohl was known to most fans only as a drummer and backing vocalist, he had in fact played guitar for several years. In 1990 he released a cassette demo, Pocketwatch, under the name "Late!", for which he played all of the instruments. From this recording, the song "Marigold" would later become a Nirvana b-side (with Grohl on vocals), while "Winnebago" would later be released as a Foo Fighters song, as the b-side of "This Is A Call". Grohl recorded "Marigold" in their apartment, nearly whispering, so that Cobain couldn't hear him singing, as Cobain was sleeping in the next room over. But he did, and it became a Nirvana song. From the same period, and reminiscent of, is "Friend of a Friend", which appears on In Your Honor. Grohl also contributed a riff which would later become "Scentless Apprentice", from Nirvana's album In Utero, this song can literally be heard in the making on Nirvana's latest release, With the Lights Out.

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1990 - B-side - In Your Honor - In Utero - With the Lights Out

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