In a recent interview Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears recently spoke to news.com.au and revealed an unlikely fan of the band is Dave Grohl, who sent Shears an email which he says almost made him cry.
“He just wrote us the most amazing, long email just about how happy he was for us – it was incredible, and it made me think, ‘you know what, Dave Grohl fucking likes us, he thinks we are cool. It’s like there you go. Fuck all y’all’.”
“He’s a fucking straight rock’n’roll guy that’s a total music nut who’s in it for the passion and nothing else and isn’t a douche bag. From him, it just made me really happy.
If a fucking 40 year old straight [rocker] man can get into our shit – even though it is unabashedly gay, and sexual – then I think anybody can.”
In support of Oxfam’s Haiti Appeal there’s a signed & smashed guitar of Dave’s up on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Signed-Dave-Grohl-guitar-courtesy-of-Q-magazine_W0QQitemZ360230930513QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE?hash=item53df6fc851
View all the celebrity auction items HERE.
The guitar is listed as being donated by Q magazine - Dave onced smashed a guitar for a Q photoshoot (in fact the photo used for the auction is from that very photoshoot) but the very same issue ran a competition to win the guitar through a premium rate phone-in on Q’s TV channel… this couldn’t be the same guitar. Could it?
David Eric Grohl turns 41 on January 14th – here’s hoping 2010 is another rewarding year both personally & professionally.
The lead letter in this month’s issue of Mojo is in regards to Dave’s cover feature last month.
He seems like a sensible, knowledgable chap does this ‘Paul Jones’… he’s probably dashingly handsome too.
November 2nd sees the release of ‘Foo Fighters; Greatest Hits’ and FooArchive has 5 copies to give away.
THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
Check out the latest single ‘Wheels’ available for download now on
iTunes.
Greatest Hits, and their other albums, can be ordered from their dedicated store on
Amazon.
videostatic reports that Foo Fighters recently reunited with ‘The Pretender’ director Sam Brown to shoot a promo for ‘Wheels’.
WornBy have unveiled the latest t-shirts in their ‘AKA’ range. ‘AKA’ (Also Known As) brings you classic band t-shirts with a difference – they’re based on the bands’ original names or the anonymous names they would create to keep secret gigs under wraps.
In 1999 Foo Fighters premiered new material (& new guitarist Chris Shiflett) with a gig at Los Angeles’ Troubador club under the name ‘Stacked Actors’. WornBy now present the concert t-shirt that never was.
You can purchase the shirt HERE & what’s more, the folk at WornBy are offering visitors to FooArchive a discount. Add one of the following codes at check out to receive a 15% discount:
foo$ – for $ transactions
foo£ – for £ transactions
foo€ – for € transactions
WornBy also stock a range of Johnson Motors merch – including the Knight Kats t-shirt Dave Grohl wore in video for The Pretender.
On January 12th 1969 Led Zeppelin released their debut album, on January 14th 1969 David Eric Grohl was born… Happy 40th to them both!
Foo Fighters have been crowned band of the year at the Classic Rock awards. The central London ceremony also celebrated the 10th anniversary of Classic Rock magazine.
Dave accepted the award in a video-taped acceptance speech.
The full list of winners follows:
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