Dave Grohl About The 90s Album That Changed His Life

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JAKARTA - As a former member of Nirvana and current Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl is undoubtedly one of the most respected rock and roll life legends. However, his passionate and enthusiastic support for his colleagues and figures has never subsided; he is the greatest fanboy as well as the greatest rock star.

Beyond real influence in hard rock bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin Grophl finds his first love in music through The Beatles. As a child, he listens to Beatles albums relentlessly and learns to play drums following Ringo Starr's rhythm.

Grohl also often expresses his love for the 1980s pop icon, Prince. When the Purple Rain singer covered Foo Fighters' Best of You at the 2007 Super Bowl, Grohl revealed that he was surprised.

"When my tears wet the keyboard like it was Miami rain that night, I realized that this is undoubtedly my proudest musical achievement," he wrote in Dave's True Stories. The years I spent in my bedroom practicing alone with Beatles songs, sleeping in a cold and packed place during a winter fan tour across Europe, hitting drums until my hands were completely bleeding... everything paid off at this point.

In a 2019 interview feature with BBC Radio 2, Grohl chose one of his favorite Beatles songs and expressed his interest in George Harrison. I want to play my favorite George Harrison song, titled Something, Grohl said introducing the song. In my opinion, all members of The Beatles - of course, each of them is very different; in melodies they are very different, songwriting, lyrics but George Harrison, there is something in him that I like the most.

"I like everything for different reasons, but I relate to George Harrison's melodic taste more than anyone else," he added.

Grohl's interest in music is undoubtedly increasing because Fab Four and his drum playing session were covered in blood, but his life was changed by a number of music from various healthy artists. Speaking topany Maker in the 1990s, the Foo Fighters vocalist discussed several of his all-time favorite albums, one of which he described as life-changing songs.

"Oh my God! This album changed my life, 'Gronhl beamed up, choosing Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun. 'I'm 24 years old, and something about the grooves and guitar sounds and the drums and bass makes this new sound sound familiar, like you've heard it in the early 70s, but you've never heard it that good. They recreated this musical genre, hard rock in the 70s.'

Formed in California in 1987, Kyuss was a formative group of frontman Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme. Following his craze in his mid-20s days with their brilliant second full band and album in 1992, Grohl became respected and eventually became friends with Homme.

Over the past 25 years, Grohl has collaborated with Homme and Queens of the Stone Age on several occasions, on stage and in the studio. Most notably, Grohl joined the band as they recorded their 2002 hit album, Songs for the Defend.

In a 2018 conversation with Kerrang! Grohl discusses his working relationship with Homme. "When Josh and I play, it's like a conversation between two old friends who've been drinking too much," he explained. That's how it feels when we write together... He's going to play something, and I'll reply like that [pointing fingers].

"When we brought Songs for the Deaf, we sat there, laughed hysterically at each other, saying, 'This is really amazing,'" added Grohl.

Listen to Green Machine from Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun album below.