Dave Grohl married photographer Jennifer Youngblood in 1994 after meeting the year before in 1993. He traveled extensively with the band and recorded many live albums with them out of which ‘No More Censorship’ and ‘Fumble’ became very popular. After the sudden end of Nirvana, he went on to form his own band, ‘Foo Fighters’. I'm shit out of luck. Then, he dated Musician Tina Basich in 1998, but the relationship didn’t work and they broke up. [Kerrang! I don't do drugs, I don't fuck groupies, I don't spend all my money on limos and mansions and cocaine. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Dave Grohl plays a large number of guitars, but his two primary guitars are both based on the Gibson ES-335. Dave is active on Facebook and Twitter, he has around 1.09M followers on his Facebook. Wrote all the songs and played all the instruments (except guitar on X-Static, played by, As a tribute to legendary punk bass player. Did you know that? “I walked out of that mosh pit and my hands were bleeding. His primary recording guitar is an original cherry red Gibson Trini Lopez Standard that he bought in the early 1990s because he liked the look of the diamond-shaped holes. But it was the least starry name who stole the show: Grohl’s 13-year-old daughter, Violet. Stopped a performance mid-song when he saw someone being beaten up in the crowd. Finally, the assembled set down their pizza and stood as close to the stage as they could for the act billed as “Dave and friends”. In the late 1990s, ‘Scream’ got disbanded and he went to Seattle to audition for ‘Nirvana’. Dave holds American citizenship and mixed (Slovak- German- Irish) ethnicity. He is a left-leaning liberal Democrat. He was a strong critic of Republican President. Whereas, his parents divorced when he was six and he was raised by his mother? magazine - September 28, 2002] Rock stars suck. Stated in a BBC interview that the only drugs he ever used were marijuana and LSD, but never touched harder drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. He dated Louise Post, vocalist for the alternative rock band Veruca Salt, and Grohl hooked up at the end of 1996 and were together till January 1997. It was the type of hopeless, shallow aspirations that we had been conditioned to reject, ultimately relieving us of any intention other than to just be ourselves. Broke his leg on-stage during a concert in June 2015. Later, he Annandale High School, Virginia. The album soon became a chartbuster including several smash-hits such as ‘Ever-Long’, ‘My Hero’ etc. Drummer for "Them Crooked Vultures" (self titled album) in 2009 with John Paul Jones (former bassist of Led Zeppelin) and Josh Homme (of Queens Of The Stoneage). Thereafter, the band recorded their first album ‘Nevermind’ and released it. Violet is named after Dave’s maternal grandmother. Dave dated Film and TV producer Jordyn Blum met Grohl in April 2002. There was a rumor that Dave Grohl dated actress Winona Ryder and hooked up with singer Christina Aguilera. She bought her family's first TV from being on TV. He finally told them to stop doing it but ironically thousands of them threw lighters at him when he wanted to set the Mentos on fire. He said that the wildest crowd he had ever been in was in this room. Drummer on "Queens of the Stone Age" band's album "Songs for the Deaf". Dave Grohl: Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, View more / View fewer Facts of Dave Grohl, Three (Harper Willow Grohl, Violet Maye Grohl, Ophelia Grohl). After the tragic end of "Nirvana", Dave eventually turned to his music to create Foo Fighters. Fans have since stopped throwing things. Lives in Los Angeles and Oxnard, California. Grohl received massive applause, which he took modest. Another year down the road, an opportunity to drum with one of his favorite punk bands, "Scream", was just too great to pass up. Then, he attended Bishop Ireton High School. He would often go out of his way for fans, who describe him as affable, genuine, warm, caring, and truly interested in what they had to say, often spending hours after a concert or press event mingling with fans and conversing with them on a wide range of topics. But, drumming for a great band such as Nirvana is not Dave's only claim in the world of music. He hit it off with Canadian bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and the two began dating from September 2000 to February 2001. Announced that he and his wife, Jordyn, are expecting their second child. Instead of going to the hospital, he had the leg set on-site and finished the concert seated in a chair. The more generous guests had paid up to $50,000 (£38,000) to attend a dinner and a two-hour show, curated by host Linda Perry, to raise money for sick children. This time, St Vincent would join them (as she did at two 2014 performances heralding Nirvana’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), plus Beck. Dave dated Actress Kari Wuhrer in 1999. Also get to know more about Jessica Jung, Cassie Ventura, and Paul Simon. [September 2002], Drumming for band 'Killing Joke' [June 2003], Estimated in 2012 to be the third richest drummer in the world behind. One of his all-time favorite heavy metal bands is. “Right you motherfuckers, this is a fucking rock show!” screamed singer Donita Sparks, urging half a dozen game diners to form a small circle pit at the lip of the stage. I don't know what to do. |  Fans, in turn, would often be very respectful whenever Grohl would need time away to eat, sleep, or spend some private time by himself or with his family. - IMDb Mini Biography By: When arts charity the Art of Elysium announced the lineup for its annual Heaven Is Rock and Roll Gala in Los Angeles, the attention was on the second “reunion” of Nirvana: Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear would come together again for just the fourth time since the band’s demise in 1994. He is known for being generally friendly, even at concerts. Listening to Rush helped him. The setting was somewhat more sterile than Nirvana’s febrile 2014 show at a tiny Brooklyn venue. I gotta move. I have a car and a small house and I go on tour and go to bed early and wake up and have tea. [October 26, 2008]. The band is not the most important thing in my life, my kids are. But, he doesn’t have an official page on Instagram. After staying together for 3 years, the couple split up in 2002. Manning his daughter's drum set so they'd rock out on sets of the same size, Grohl jammed to the Fighters' classic "Everlong" (his first stab at … Man, she didn't even have running water. He said in the same interview that life is hard enough as it is, and such hard drugs don't make living any easier. Before heading on to their European tour in 1994, he and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana fame worked on many demos at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle. This leads us to 1990 when "Scream" seemed to be coming to an end and "Nirvana" was in need of a drummer. He was nominated for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for Sonic Highways (2014) at Primetime Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards he won Sound City (2013) at Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize in 2014. His mother, Virginia Hanlon Grohl, appears in. How Kurt could even think we'd make a ripple in this ridiculous mainstream world of polished pop music was beyond me. Dave Grohl's teenage daughter wowed the audience as she performed Kurt Cobain's vocals as part of Nirvana's second reunion show at the annual Heaven Is Rock and Roll Gala in Los Angeles. He has also recorded and guest performed with his buddies Tenacious D. All the while recording for his own hardcore project, "Probot". Is one of the most popular people in the music industry, due to his skill on most musical instruments (but particularly drums) and his pleasant, humorous personality. Dropped out of high school at age 17 to go on tour with a punk band. But the performances were valiantly potent in the face of a largely sedentary room: 80s feminist punks L7 played their still riotously relevant call-to-arms Shitlist. I swear to God, you can tell the difference between an English drummer and an American one. Most of the English drummers swing their rolls, but most of the Americans don't. His birth name is David Eric Grohl. He later taught himself to play drums, citing John Banham as his biggest influence. The teenager has already had her own bands, and made her live debut at LA’s Roxy Theatre in a daytime show that her dad described as being like “a hardcore matinee at fucking CBGBs or something”. After a short tirade against the brawler, Grohl yelled to him "Get the f**k out of my show!". The duo together completed many of his songs until the arrival of Cobain. Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters front-man, will always be remembered as the drummer for Nirvana. However, after spending around 4 years together, they got divorced in 1997. Dave has drummed for Queens of the Stone Age and Killing Joke. 8 oz. His third daughter, Ophelia Saint Grohl, was born on August 1, 2014. His mother Virginia was a public schoolteacher in Fairfax County (VA) for 35 years. J.Clay, Other Works Removed the Foo Fighters' hit song "Big Me" from the set list for 12 years because fans would pelt his face with Mentos (an homage to their 1996 music video) during the song. Likely, he started playing guitar at a very young age and is self-taught for the most part. Then, he dated Musician Tina Basich in 1998, but the relationship … 18 He’s got a secret love for The Spice Girls. Second daughter, Harper Willow, born April 17, 2009. Around 3.06M followers on his Twitter. After that, the band continued to play. violet grohl is 13-years-old, performing “heart-shaped box” with nirvana, st vincent and beck @theartofelysium’s benefit 01-04-2020, A post shared by evie b (@evebarlow) on Jan 5, 2020 at 12:53am PST. Man, nobody is cooler that Dolly Parton. |  But it was the least starry name who stole the show: Grohl’s 13-year-old daughter, Violet. On the same token, parenthood is terrifying. Even so, Grohl almost never turned down a fan who wanted an autograph or who would just come up to say hello. In an outtake from a 2019 Guardian interview, he speculated on his oldest daughter’s musical future: “Maybe some day she’ll be the singer in a band so someone else can pay the fucking bills around here!”, Dave Grohl: 'I never imagined myself to be Freddie Mercury'. During a trip to Chicago at age 13, a cousin took him to his first concert where he saw local punk rock band "Naked Raygun" perform. A year later, he was behind the drums for "Mission Impossible" and later that summer drumming for "Dain Bramage". Talking about Dave’s education history, he enrolled as a freshman at Thomas Jefferson High School, Virginia. He yelled at the instigator and ordered him to be ejected from the venue immediately, stating he wouldn't tolerate violence against people who paid their hard-earned money to come see him play, and that people came there to dance and have a good time without fear of getting beaten up. hen arts charity the Art of Elysium announced the lineup for its annual Heaven Is Rock and Roll Gala in Los Angeles, the attention was on the second “reunion” of. Man, I'd be so embarrassed at being called a rock star. He dated Louise Post, vocalist for the alternative rock band Veruca Salt, and Grohl hooked up at the end of 1996 and were together till January 1997. ), As Beck and St Vincent duelled on guitar and her father thrashed his kit behind her, she embodied Cobain’s lyrics as if wailing them in a room completely alone, channelling the alienation of adolescence that has made Cobain a leader for generations of youth eternal. He frequently posts on his band's website. The bands toured together several times in the 1990's and members would often play guest spots during the other's set whilst touring.