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The Nirvana drummer / Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl once filled in for a sick drummer of the band Cage The Elephant. He had one day to learn the songs after only hearing them a few times and played them perfectly.
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Dave Grohl was so intimidated by Kurt Cobain that he hid a lot of the music he made while on tour with Nirvana. After Cobain's death, the tucked away music would become Foo Fighters first album.
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On the last week of 2002, Dave Grohl had 3 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 3 different bands: "All My Life" by Foo Fighters (as guitarist and frontman), "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age and "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana (both as drummer).
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Nirvana were around less than 1/3 of the time of Foo Fighters but sold almost 3 times as many records
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Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame has never done cocaine and stopped doing drugs at 20.
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Dave Grohl (age 46) played drums for Nirvana, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tenacious D, Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails among others, all the while single handedly creating and leading the Foo Fighters.
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There was a rock supergroup called Them Crooked Vultures that consisted of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Dave Ghrol (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). They released one album in 2009.
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Taylor Hawkins, drummer of Foo Fighters, is an accomplished singer, much like lead singer Dave Grohl, former drummer of Nirvana. Here's "Under Pressure" (Queen) sang by him with drummer Rufus Taylor, son of Queen's drummer Roger Taylor. [A Drummer story]
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Between October 26, 2002 and March 1, 2003 Grohl was in the number one spot on the Modern Rock charts for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups. Nirvana, Foo Fighters & QOTSA
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Dave Grohl of Nirvana & Foo Fighters wrote and recorded the debut album Foo Fighters by himself, spawning the hit single "Big Me"
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A band named "Them Crooked Vultures," composed of Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), and John Paul Jones (Lez Zeppelin)
