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Some kids dream about being in a rock band. Dave Grohl dreamed of being in every rock band. "As a kid, my fantasy was that I would go to a concert, any concert, and something would happen to the drummer," says Grohl, 34. "The lead singer would look out into the audience and say, 'Is there anyone out there who knows how to play our songs?' And, of course, they'd have to pick...
...Grohl is another rock god living his dream. At 21 he was drumming for Nirvana, and after front man Kurt Cobain's suicide, he moved center stage as guitarist and lead singer for the Foo Fighters. In the past year, Grohl has also played drums on every track of acclaimed albums by heavy-metal rockers Queens of the Stone Age, female singer-songwriter Cat Power and goth princes Killing Joke (whose first album in seven years, Killing Joke, is out this week). Grohl has also released a platinum-selling Foo Fighters record, performed with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello...
Like most modern adventures in ubiquity, Grohl's begins with Puffy. In 1998, P. Diddy called Grohl and asked him to do a remix for his song It's All About the Benjamins. Grohl says, "I was like, 'Well, I don't know how to do a remix.' And he basically said, 'Do whatever you want.' So I got a drum set, a guitar and a bass and made some rock music, and they put it under the song. That was my first collaboration...
Since then Grohl has got dozens of calls from bands looking for an expert fill-in drummer (inexplicably, bands go through drummers as fast as drummers go through groupies) and the cachet of having a former member of Nirvana play on their album. Grohl doesn't ask for much cash, but he is moderately selective. "It's great to jam with other people; inevitably you learn something," he says. "But to make it more than just throwing Legos together to see what you can build...I try to work with people I respect...
...Grohl, an only partially reformed drummer, uses his guitar at least as much as rhythm instrument as for melody and the result is relentless stream of power-chord headbangers. As the tattered black heart on the cover illustrates, the album is a tribute to disaffected love: “I may be scattered, a little shattered / What does it matter? / Noone has a fit like I do / I’m the only one that fits you.” The lyrics even border on kitsch sometimes, though only because Grohl couldn’t care less. Here the guitar...