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David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and | |
singer-songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter and founder of | |
the Foo Fighters, prior to ... Wikipedia | |
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Born | |
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January 14, 1969 (age 48), Warren | |
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Spouse | |
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Jordyn Blum (m. 2003), Jennifer Youngblood (m. 1993-1997) | |
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Music groups | |
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Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Scream, Killing Joke, Melvana | |
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'''David Eric "Dave" Grohl''' (born January 14, 1969) is an American | |
[rock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music) | |
[musician](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musician), | |
[multi-instrumentalist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-instrumentalist), and | |
[singer-songwriter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer-songwriter), who is the | |
[lead vocalist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_vocalist), | |
[guitarist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarist), | |
primary songwriter and founder of the | |
[Foo Fighters]()http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters, | |
prior to which he was the drummer in the | |
[grunge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge) band | |
[Nirvana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)). | |
He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup | |
[Them Crooked Vultures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_Crooked_Vultures). | |
Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived | |
side projects Late! and | |
[Probot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probot), as well as being involved with | |
[Queens of the Stone Age](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_of_the_Stone_Age) | |
numerous times throughout the past decade. He has performed | |
[session work](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician) | |
(as a drummer) for a variety of musicians, including | |
- [Garbage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_(band)), | |
- [Killing Joke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Joke), | |
- [Nine Inch Nails](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails), | |
- [The Prodigy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy), | |
- [Slash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(musician)), | |
- [Juliette Lewis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Lewis_and_the_Licks), | |
- [Tenacious D](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_D), | |
- [Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers), and | |
- [Lemmy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy). | |
## Early life | |
As a child, Grohl's family relocated from Warren, Ohio, to Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of | |
Washington, D.C. Three years later, when Grohl was six, his parents divorced, and Grohl grew up | |
living with his mother. | |
At the age of twelve, Grohl began learning to play guitar. He quickly grew tired of lessons and | |
instead taught himself, and began playing in bands with friends. A year later, 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 in 1982 to | |
see Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago when he was 13 years old. "From then on we were totally | |
punk," Grohl explained. "We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll and tried to figure it all out." | |
In Virginia, Grohl attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman and sophomore. He was elected | |
vice president of his freshman class and played bits of songs by bands like the Circle Jerks and Bad | |
Brains over the school intercom before his morning announcements. During his junior year, Grohl and his | |
mother decided that he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because his marijuana | |
usage was affecting his grades. | |
While in high school, Grohl played in several local bands, including a stint on guitar in a band called | |
Freak Baby. While playing in Freak Baby, he taught himself to play drums. When Freak Baby kicked out | |
its bass player, Grohl decided to switch to drums, and the new band called themselves Mission Impossible. | |
During his developing years as a drummer, Grohl cited John Bonham as his greatest influence, and | |
eventually had Bonham's three-circle logo tattooed on his wrist. Mission Impossible later rebranded | |
themselves Fast before breaking up, after which Grohl joined the post-punk-influenced hardcore punk band | |
Dain Bramage. | |
Many of Grohl's early influences were gained at the 9:30 club, a live music venue in Washington D.C.: | |
> "I went to the 9:30 club hundreds of times. I was always so excited to get there, and I was always | |
> bummed when it closed. I spent my teenage years at the club and saw some shows that changed my life." | |
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