Dave Grohl is putting his BBQ skills to work for a good cause. The Foo Fighters’ frontman showed up at The Hope Mission in Los Angeles around midnight Wednesday with a massive meat smoker. Grohl spent the next 16 hours whipping up ribs, pork butt, brisket, cabbage, coleslaw and beans. He handled all the expenses…
Every songwriter has a handful of tunes they wish they’d written – even Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.Which song does Grohl wish he’d come up with? The upbeat 80’s classic “Kids In America”.Grohl once listed the song as one of his biggest influences “Every punk-rock boy I knew was hopelessly in love with Kim Wilde,…
Like many musicians, Dave Grohl grew up a huge David Bowie fan. But which song was his favorite? Grohl says Bowie’s first live album David Live was “on regular rotation in my living room”, and that his early bands would cover “Suffragette City”. But Grohl picked “Fame” as his favorite Bowie track: “it’s ****ing amazing.…
A guitar owned by Pat Smear — and played by Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters’ “Monkey Wrench” video — is being put up for auction in the U.K. Smear purchased the customized Gretsch White Falcon in 1996 in Los Angeles, says Foo Fighters guitar technician Earnie Bailey. “Soon after, I replaced the Bigsby tremolo…
Kat Von D is debuting music from her debut full-length album, “Love Made Me Do It.” The tattoo artist and makeup maven shared alternate versions of two songs today, both of which feature Dave Grohl on drums. Von D explained, “I’m so excited to release the versions of these songs that were recorded so long ago with…
David Bowie was otherworldly to many, including Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl. In a recent interview on Australia’s “7.30” program, Grohl compared seeing Bowie for the first time to seeing a UFO. “I stood in the photo pit and looked at him and it was like seeing an alien,” Grohl recalled. “You know, it was…
The Foo Fighters‘ “The Colour and the Shape” album is turning 25 this year. In a new interview, frontman Dave Grohl was asked about the milestone and said the band doesn’t currently have any plans to mark the silver anniversary, but claims he’s open to the idea of 2022 making up for what they missed…
How scared should you be? Foo Fighters’ horror-comedy film, Studio 666, is on its way. The movie, based on a story by frontman Dave Grohl and starring the band members, will first premiere in Australian theaters on February 24 – then hit the U.S. the next day. The storyline follows the band as they move into a…