Dave Grohl
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"David Eric" ""Dave"" "Grohl" is an American Rock music/rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer who first gained recognition and fame as the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana (band)/Nirvana. He is also the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and founder of the band Foo Fighters.

He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock Supergroup (music)/supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot, as well as being involved with Queens of the Stone Age numerous times throughout the past decade.

He has performed session musician/session work (as a drummer) for a variety of musicians, including Garbage (band)/Garbage, Killing Joke, Kristeen Young, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Prodigy, Slash (musician)/Slash, Iggy Pop, Juliette and the Licks, Tenacious D, RDGLDGRN, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Lemmy, Stevie Nicks, Zac Brown Band and Ghost (Swedish band)/Ghost.

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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.

We'd pull into small towns, and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man.

I don't like to have people do stuff for me. I don't like to have runners go out and get me meals - it's just not normal.

Usually after making a record, you imagine it to be your last, ... You just feel tapped out. This time, for whatever reason, this album inspired me to keep writing. It made me feel like we still have good albums in us, that we're still capable of making good records for years to come.

That dude who played drums in Nirvana.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.