Pretty much agree with Larry here. Dave seems like a cool guy and I like his drumming in Nirvana and Qotsa. But what the fuck is up with the Foo Fighters. Genuinely crappy music.Larry B. wrote:Leaving art aside, I see Dave as a good role model for the hundreds of thousands of people who follow him. He's not on the brink of suicide every 5 minutes (not that we know of,) he sends messages related to a good familiy life, friendship, stuff like that, all the while saying how fun life is supposed to be. I think that's a good message, and a better role model than many other rockers.tubro wrote:Six7Six7 wrote:Dave Grohl is the real deal.
I question anyone who believes otherwise. He's got more art in his pinky than Perry Farrell ever had in his whole body, at this point.
i had to read this a few times to try and determine if you're serious or making a joke. especially because the last sentence is unclear. 'than perry ever had' and 'at this point' are contradictory. anyway, i have no gripe whatsoever with saying that he's got more art in him than perry has now. that's a comment on the state of perry as an artist at present and sadly that statement would, i'm afraid, apply to anyone making any art at all, since perry isn't and hasn't in a long time. so that's not really about grohl. as for grohl, if he'd just shut the fuck up about how much he's the spokesperson for and only true voice of rock and roll, then i'd stop at thinking he's a poseur whose band bores me. plenty of bands that other people like bore me and i'm sure plenty of bands that i like bore others. that's just taste. but grohl flat out embraces his self appointed and media approved role as the guy who knows it all about hard rock. and that's just insane and more than a little bit annoying. sort of like wynton marsalis, who's got more art in his pinky than grohl will ever have in his whole body, but still is bothersome as the guy who knows and will tell all about jazz. grohl needs to shut the fuck up and the rock media needs to stop turning to him for comment on every subject. like frank zappa said, shut up and play your guitar.
having said all of that, and in fairness, the hbo series episode about DC was great. i lived in DC in those years and while those punk bands weren't and still aren't my favorite punk bands, i was very much an attendee of that scene and i saw and hung out with all of them and also went to many of those punk funk go-go warehouse shows with trouble funk, chuck brown, EU and the other go-go bands. ian mackaye is an amazing and underrated figure.
Having said that, I don't really like what he does in Foo Fighters. I just think it's boring. His energy playing live is great, and everyone seems to enjoy it, so I don't really think he should stop or change. Rock and roll is dead anyway. And about that article, I don't know if the writer was serious or not, but comparing Dave Grohl to Victor Jara is one of the most ridiculous things I've read in the week.
There's this festival I go to every year (for the last 20 years), Rock Werchter, which is always the first weekend of July. Which is great, cause that's when my vacation starts. So I can get all freaky for 4 days and then recuperate. But this year the festival is one week earlier, cause they want the Foo Fighters to headline, and no other date was possible.
Anyway, fuck the Foo Fighters
The only time I ever got really good tickets waiting in line was for Pink Floyd in '87(I think). A couple of friends and I lined up from about midnight until the box office opened. We got centre floor seats 8 rows back from the stage!! This was the tour for A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
