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Last night I was listening to the NPR "Fresh Air" interview w/ Dave Grohl, who I really like.
(One of my favorite moments in the Tom Petty documentary was when the Heartbreaker's drummer was on the way out and they were set to play Saturday Night Live. It was after Kurt Cobain's death and before Dave started Foo Fighters and Tom asked him to play with the band. They played "Honeybee" which is a totally rocking song, and Dave had long hair, around his shoulders, all one length, and when the drums kick in he just starts whamming on them and banging his head and he was totally still in Nirvana mode and it was so funny. I've looked for a video of the performance online but haven't been able to find one. If you find a link to one would you please leave it in my comments? Thanks.)
Dave was talking to Terry Gross about writing music for Nirvana. He said they never talked about music. That it just kind of formed naturally. Like Kurt would bring in this guitar lick that he'd come up with and then they'd just "jam" until they got what they wanted. He said the songs were really very simple and he compared them to nursery rhymes and then they played "Heart-shaped Box" and I'm listening to "I wish I could eat your cancer when it turns black" and I'm thinking WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF SCARY ASS PARENTS DID YOU GROW UP WITH?
He also told this story about these miners trapped in a mine in Tanzania? I think? And they were able to drill a hole down to them and they said to them, "We're working on getting you out. Until we can reach you, is there anything you need?" and the guy asked for an iPod with the latest Foo Fighters CD loaded to it. So Dave wrote the guy a song and put it on their new CD. It's called "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners."
You can listen to the interview here.
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you and i have some similar tastes in music. i love tom petty, and i love honeybee, and i also love dave grohl. i have had a crush on him since nirvana. can't wait to get my hands on that new documentary. bought the new foo fighters already. :)
I am a huge Dave Grohl fanatic. I love watching the Foo Fighters videos because they are usually pretty silly and you just have to admire their sense of humor :)
Plus, he's a freakin' killer drummer. Who doesn't love a good drummer?
(got here from Badger's page)
thanks for that FF linkage!! i pink puffy heart them.
it's tazmania, not tanzania. :) but still, cool!! :) *edit* i noticed you put "i think?", so i'll let it slide :P
Riiiight...Tazmania. Like the Devil. That would make sense since the miner later attended a FF concert in Australia. Tanzania...that's Africa, right?
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