This is an interesting choice for best gen X artist. However there is no denying that he played in Nirvana and drummed on "Nevermind" one of the absolute best albums of the 90s. Then had a successful solo career and managed to drum on the Queens of the Stone Age album "Songs for the Deaf" which is one of the very best albums of the 2000s. His drumming work is particularly impressive.
Also no one seems to have a bad thing to say about the guy and his charity work is awesome. He seems to be one of those people that just has a strong purpose and lends a ton of energy into everything he does.
I love "Songs for the Deaf". I think I still have the CD somewhere.
The charity work, the fact that he can't read music (seriously, I just read that the other day, he plays by ear), AND being a genuinely nice person (plus my aforementioned affinity for cooking, and smoking in particular) really makes me like this guy. There's some other personal stuff that I've read about that also resonates with me, um, personally, but that's enough to be going on about.
Yeah I remember buying Songs for the Deaf on my lunch break. I had enjoyed Rated R. I was working at Home Depot which was right next to a Target. I listened to the album after work and was immediately blown away by the jump in production values, rifts and drumming. It was a hard rock album that came out at a time I was really into that type of music.
As far as Grohl is concerned he had made a bunch of his own material during his time with Nirvana but Cobain didn't want to make any of the songs and Cobain pretty much controlled the output of the band. Cobain was probably right not to include much of this because Grohl is just such a different style of lyricist compared to Cobain.
Then the first Foo Fighters album was a solo Grohl album. It was pretty good too. He went on your with a band and enjoyed playing with this group so much when he stopped touring he actually wanted to form an actual band where the different members had input rather than a solo project. So my favorite album by the group "The Colour and the Shape" was a joint effort.
So you have this guy who was a successful drummer in one of the most successful bands of the 90s, he is a successful solo artist and formed another band that was successful and on top of that when he lends himself to helping another band he improves their output.
This is a highly successful person, but he seems to stay pretty humble and hasn't descended into some of the same traps that other rock stars have. I can appreciate all of that about him.
This is an interesting choice for best gen X artist. However there is no denying that he played in Nirvana and drummed on "Nevermind" one of the absolute best albums of the 90s. Then had a successful solo career and managed to drum on the Queens of the Stone Age album "Songs for the Deaf" which is one of the very best albums of the 2000s. His drumming work is particularly impressive.
Also no one seems to have a bad thing to say about the guy and his charity work is awesome. He seems to be one of those people that just has a strong purpose and lends a ton of energy into everything he does.
I love "Songs for the Deaf". I think I still have the CD somewhere.
The charity work, the fact that he can't read music (seriously, I just read that the other day, he plays by ear), AND being a genuinely nice person (plus my aforementioned affinity for cooking, and smoking in particular) really makes me like this guy. There's some other personal stuff that I've read about that also resonates with me, um, personally, but that's enough to be going on about.
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Yeah I remember buying Songs for the Deaf on my lunch break. I had enjoyed Rated R. I was working at Home Depot which was right next to a Target. I listened to the album after work and was immediately blown away by the jump in production values, rifts and drumming. It was a hard rock album that came out at a time I was really into that type of music.
As far as Grohl is concerned he had made a bunch of his own material during his time with Nirvana but Cobain didn't want to make any of the songs and Cobain pretty much controlled the output of the band. Cobain was probably right not to include much of this because Grohl is just such a different style of lyricist compared to Cobain.
Then the first Foo Fighters album was a solo Grohl album. It was pretty good too. He went on your with a band and enjoyed playing with this group so much when he stopped touring he actually wanted to form an actual band where the different members had input rather than a solo project. So my favorite album by the group "The Colour and the Shape" was a joint effort.
So you have this guy who was a successful drummer in one of the most successful bands of the 90s, he is a successful solo artist and formed another band that was successful and on top of that when he lends himself to helping another band he improves their output.
This is a highly successful person, but he seems to stay pretty humble and hasn't descended into some of the same traps that other rock stars have. I can appreciate all of that about him.
Well said!