Dave Grohl Biography, Age, Wife, And Networth

Dave Grohl Biography

David Eric Groh(Dave Grohl) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and director. He is the founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Foo Fighters since 1994, and was the best known and longest-serving drummer for Nirvana from late 1990 to early 1994 when Nirvana disbanded following the death of Kurt Cobain.

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Grohl is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, and wrote the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot. He has also recorded and frequently tours with rock band Queens of the Stone Age.

He is of German, Irish, and Slovak descent. When he was a child, Grohl’s family moved to Springfield, Virginia. When Grohl was seven, his parents divorced, and he subsequently grew up with his mother. At the age of 12, he began learning to play guitar. He grew tired of lessons and instead taught himself, and he eventually began playing in bands with friends. At that age, “I was going in the direction of faster, louder, darker while my sister, Lisa, three years older, was getting seriously into new wave territory.

We’d meet in the middle sometimes with Bowie and Siouxsie And The Banshees”. At 13, Grohl and his sister spent the summer in Evanston, Illinois, at their cousin Tracy’s house. Tracy introduced them to punk rock by taking the pair to shows by a variety of punk bands. His first concert was Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago in 1982 when he was 13 years old. Grohl recalled, “From then on we were totally punk. We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out.

In Virginia, Grohl attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman. He was elected vice president of his freshman class and in that capacity would manage to play bits of songs by punk bands like Circle Jerks and Bad Brains over the school intercom before his morning announcements. Grohl’s mother decided that he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because his cannabis use was negatively impacting his grades. He stayed there for two years, beginning with a repeat of his first year. After his second year, he transferred yet again to Annandale High School.

While in high school, Grohl played in several local bands, including a stint as guitarist in a band called Freak Baby. It was during this period that Grohl taught himself to play drums. When Freak Baby kicked out its bass player, Grohl decided to switch to drums. The reconstituted band renamed themselves Mission Impossible.

Dave Grohl Age

David Eric Grohl was born on January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio, the son of teacher Virginia Jean (née Hanlon) and newswriter James Harper Grohl (1938–2014). He is 50 years of age as of 2019.

Dave Grohl Height

He stands at a fair height of 6′ 0″. At age 17, Grohl auditioned with local DC favorites Scream to fill the vacancy left by the departure of drummer Kent Stax. In order to be considered for the position, Grohl lied about his age, claiming he was 20. To Grohl’s surprise, the band asked him to join and so he dropped out of high school in his junior year.

He has been quoted as saying, “I was 17 and extremely anxious to see the world, so I did it.” Over the next four years, Grohl toured extensively with the band, recording a couple of live albums (their show of May 4, 1990 in Alzey, Germany being released by Tobby Holzinger as Your Choice Live Series Vol.10) and two studio albums, No More Censorship and Fumble, on which Grohl penned and sang vocals on the song “Gods Look Down”.

Dave Grohl Young

In Virginia, Grohl attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman. He was elected vice president of his freshman class and in that capacity would manage to play bits of songs by punk bands like Circle Jerks and Bad Brains over the school intercom before his morning announcements. Grohl’s mother decided that he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because his cannabis use was negatively impacting his grades.

He stayed there for two years, beginning with a repeat of his first year. After his second year, he transferred yet again to Annandale High School. While in high school, Grohl played in several local bands, including a stint as guitarist in a band called Freak Baby. It was during this period that Grohl taught himself to play drums. When Freak Baby kicked out its bass player, Grohl decided to switch to drums. The reconstituted band renamed themselves Mission Impossible.

In a 2013 interview with Sam Jones Grohl mentioned he didn’t take drumming lessons and instead learned from “listening to Rush records and Punk Rock”

Dave Grohl Wife

Grohl married Jennifer Leigh Youngblood (born November 6, 1971), a photographer from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in 1994 and later divorced in 1997 after separating in December 1996. On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum.

Daughter/Kids

The couple has 3 lovely daughters named Violet Maye who was born April 15, 2006, Harper Willow born April 17, 2009, and Ophelia Saint who was born on August 1, 2014.

Dave Grohl Net Worth

Dave Grohl is an American rock musician who has a net worth of $280 million dollars. Growing up in the Washington D.C. area, Dave Grohl began to teach himself the guitar and after his cousin took him to various punk rock music shows. At those shows, Grohl’s love for the genre was sealed. During his early high school years, Grohl played guitar for various local bands, all the while teaching himself how to play drums. He eventually became good talented enough to be hired as the drummer for a band called “Scream” when he was seventeen.

Dave Grohl Nirvana

Grohl joined Nirvana, the band had already recorded several demos for the follow-up to their debut album Bleach, having spent time recording with producer Butch Vig in Wisconsin. Initially, the plan was to release the album on Sub Pop, but the band received a great deal of interest based on the demos. Grohl spent the initial months with Nirvana traveling to various labels as the band shopped for a deal, eventually signing with DGC Records. In the spring of 1991, the band entered Sound City Studios in Los Angeles to record Nevermind (as seen in Grohl’s 2013 documentary Sound City).

Upon its release, Nevermind (1991) exceeded all expectations and became a worldwide commercial success. At the same time, Grohl was compiling and recording his own material, which he released on a cassette called Pocketwatch in 1992 on indie label Simple Machines. Rather than using his own name, Grohl released the cassette under the pseudonym “Late!”

In the later years of Nirvana, Grohl’s songwriting contributions increased. In Grohl’s initial months in Seattle, Cobain overheard him working on a song called “Color Pictures of a Marigold”, and the two subsequently worked on it together. Grohl would later record the song for the Pocketwatch cassette. Grohl stated in a 2014 episode of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways that Cobain reacted by kissing him upon first hearing a demo of “Alone + Easy Target” that Grohl had recently recorded.

During the sessions for In Utero, Nirvana decided to re-record “Color Pictures of a Marigold” released this version as a B-side on the “Heart-Shaped Box” single, titled simply “Marigold”. Grohl also contributed the main guitar riff for “Scentless Apprentice”. Cobain admitted in a late 1993 MTV interview that he initially thought the riff was “kind of boneheaded”, but was gratified at how the song developed (a process captured in part in a demo on the Nirvana box set With the Lights Out). Cobain noted that he was excited at the possibility of having Novoselic and Grohl contribute more to the band’s songwriting.

Dave Grohl Guitar

Grohl is an American rock legend, having a illustrious career in music since the mid-1980s. Grohl has been instrumental to Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, Late!, and Probot. Dave is a man of many talents who plays guitar, drums, and is a vocalist. Grohl’s guitar setup is relatively simple, and his tone is mostly either clean and balanced, or distorted with heavy overdrive. Check out the gear and setup Dave uses for his signature sounds.

Dave Grohl Tattoo

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Dave Grohl Play

Play is a 23-minute instrumental composition composed and performed by Dave Grohl and released in 2018.Dave Grohl stated that he was inspired by his daughters’ music lessons to undertake one of the most challenging projects of his career. As the front man of rock band Foo Fighters, Grohl found some time during their world tour for their Concrete and Gold album to write and record the 23-minute instrumental.

Grohl stated that he was inspired by watching children at music classes, including his daughters, rehearsing songs over and over again to play them perfectly. Grohl also created a two part documentary that includes him performing seven different versions of “Play” and interviewing young students at the Join the Band music school near his home in Los Angeles Grohl plays all of the instruments on the 23-minute “Play”. However, when he debuted the song live he recruited members from another of his side projects, Them Crooked Vultures and also the band Jane’s Addiction. They debuted it live on December 8, 2018 at The Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville

Dave Grohl Quotes

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

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