Rhythm magazine caught up with Taylor for a Q&A to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Post-Coattail Riders and back demoing songs with Foo Fighters he had this to say;
Dave has lots of songs – as he always does – and I’m telling you that one of them is up there in the top five songs he has ever written. We did a quick demo and just knew in our hearts that it was special.”
In January this year Q magazine named Dave one of their ‘Artists Of The Century’, then in May he was #35 in the list of ‘100 Greatest Frontmen’ & now he’s back on the cover of the October issue as one of “The 10 Most Exciting People In Music Now”.
The ‘What I’ve Learned’ Q&A covers heroin, looking like a cock and the benefits of being the ‘nicest man in rock’.
The August issue of Q magazine is on shelves now and features the ‘Hot List – 50 Reasons Why This Summer Will Rock’. Number 2 on the list is ‘Dave Grohl: what’s next?’
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John Paul Jones is in the hot seat for this month’s ‘An Audience With…’ in Uncut magazine (A feature Dave himself took part in 3 years ago) and one of the questions this time around comes from Dave:
One Butthole Surfers anecdote, please?
Dave Grohl
Ha! I was brought in to produce the Butthol Surfers’ 1993 album, Independent Worm Saloon. I uess it was to give it a heavy rock vibe, but it didn’t work like that. They were actually incredibly hard-working in the studio, but I recall running up a phenomenal bar-bill at the Sun Rafael studio. And then there was Gibby and his… eccentric studio behaviour. Gibby did one vocal take shouting into his guitar. He held it out in front of his face and screamed at it. Ha! He was trying to find out if it picked up through the pick-ups, which it kind of did. And that was pretty good.
And amongst the other questions put to John Paul Jones was one from me:
If Them Crooked Vultures had Spice Girls-like nicknames what would they be?
Paul Jones, Liverpool
Dave would be Smiley Vulture. He can’t stop grinning. Josh would be Slinky Vulture. He’s a slinky kinda guy. And I’d be Speedy, I guess. Or Jumpy. So there you go. Smiley, Slinky and Speedy. Or does that sound more like the dwarfs?
March’s Rhythm magazine has a 10 page interview with Dave covering Them Crooked Vultures, getting back behind the kit and the future of the Foo Fighters. Plus, Dave’s drum tech provides an extensive look at Dave’s kit.
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.
Dave was on the cover of Q’s last issue and this month he’s back with an exclusive Them Crooked Vultures interview/photoshoot.
Q 283 is on shelves December 31st with Cheryl Cole as it’s cover star.
Mojo magazine have added a gallery of shots from Ross Halfin’s photoshoot with Dave from back in September.
This Wednesday (November 25th) Dave not only graces Q’s cover but issue 194 of Mojo also hits the shelves with an exclusive cover interview.
Mojo 194
Grohl relates how “a little vandal from the middle of nowhere” became one of America’s biggest rock stars, surviving hunger and penury in America’s hardcore punk rock underground, then the strain and turmoil of mega-fame as the drummer in grunge gods Nirvana. His memories of doomed Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain are particularly poignant.
“What do you think of when you think of Kurt?” he asks Mojo. “You think of a rock star that killed himself because of this guilt of being a rock star. When I think of Kurt I think of the way he giggled, or how he loved ABBA, or him saying, ‘God, man, I wish I could wear sweatpants.’”
Grohl has a reputation for affability that sometimes obscures the grit in his story. But in MOJO’s interview, he’s honest about the crises he’s endured as a frontman, notably the tensions in the Foo Fighters that nearly called time on the band between 2001 and 2002, including a fight in Hollywood’s Conway Studios during sessions for fourth album, *One By One, and the meaningful absence of Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins from Grohl’s debut show as temporary drummer with QOTSA.
“That really hurt me,” Grohl tells MOJO. “Taylor was my best friend. It was like him not turning up to my wedding.”
Taylor, Homme, Foo Fighter Nate Mendel, former Scream bandmate Pete Stahl, hardcore patriarch Ian Mackaye and Grohl admirer Tom Petty are among the thoughtful contributors to MOJO’s revealing profile, on sale now.
And from the looks of things, you’ll be able to choose from three background colours:
This Wednesday (November 25th) issue 282 of Q hits the shelves with a special triple gate-fold cover featuring Q’s Artists of the Century and Dave is one of them.
Q 282
Click below to see who joins Dave in the full line-up:
