Live at Reading (Geffen, 2009): ‘Breed’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Aneurysm’ / ‘School’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘In Bloom’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘About a Girl’ / ‘Tourette’s’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Lounge Act’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘On a Plain’ / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘Blew’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘Stay Away’ / ‘Spank Thru’ / ‘The Money Will Roll Right In’ / ‘D-7 / ‘Territorial Pissings’
Late!
Pocketwatch (Simple Machines, 1993): ‘Pokey the Little Puppy’ / ‘Petrol CB’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Throwing Needles’ / ‘Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson’ / ‘Color Pictures of a Marigold’ / ‘Hell’s Garden’ / ‘Winnebago’ / ‘Bruce’ / ‘Milk’
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters (Roswell/Capitol, 1995): ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘I’ll Stick Around’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Alone + Easy Target’ / ‘Good Grief ’ / ‘Floaty’ / ‘Weenie Beenie’ / ‘Oh, George’ / ‘For All the Cows’ / ‘X-Static’ / ‘Wattershed’ / ‘Exhausted’
The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Doll’ / ‘Monkey Wrench’ / ‘Hey, Johnny Park’ / ‘My Poor Brain’ / ‘Wind Up’ / ‘Up in Arms’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘See You’ / ‘Enough Space’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘New Way Home’
There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Roswell/RCA, 1999): ‘Stacked Actors’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Gimme Stitches’ / ‘Generator’ / ‘Aurora’ / ‘Live-In Skin’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Headwires’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’ / ‘M.I.A.’
One by One (Roswell/RCA, 2002): ‘All My Life’ / ‘Low’ / ‘Have It All’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Disenchanted Lullaby’ / ‘Tired of You’ / ‘Halo’ / ‘Lonely as You’ / ‘Overdrive’ / ‘Burn Away’ / ‘Come Back’
InYour Honor (Roswell/RCA, 2005) : ‘In Your Honor’ / ‘No Way Back’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘DOA’ / ‘Hell’ / ‘The Last Song’ / ‘Free Me’ / ‘Resolve’ / ‘The Deepest Blues Are Black’ / ‘End Over End’ / ‘The Sign’ / ‘Still’ / ‘What If I Do?’ / ‘Miracle’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘On the Mend’ / ‘Virginia Moon’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Razor’
Skin and Bones (Roswell/RCA, 2006): ‘Razor’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘Marigold’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Roswell/RCA, 2007): ‘The Pretender’ / ‘Let It Die’ / ‘Erase/Replace’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘Come Alive’ / ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’ / ‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)’ / ‘Summer’s End’ / ‘Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners’ / ‘Statues’ / ‘But, Honestly’ / ‘Home’
Greatest Hits (Roswell/RCA, 2009) ‘All My Life’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘The Pretender’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Money Wrench’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘Wheels’ / ‘Word Forward’ / ‘Everlong’ (acoustic)
Wasting Light (Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Bridge Burning’ / ‘Rope’ / ‘Dear Rosemary’ / ‘White Limo’ / ‘Arlandria’ / ‘These Days’ / ‘Back and Forth’ / ‘A Matter of Time’ / ‘Miss the Misery’ / ‘I Should Have Known’ / ‘Walk’
Medium Rare (Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Band on the Run’ / ‘I Feel Fine’ / ‘Life of Illusion’ / ‘Young Man Blues’ / ‘Bad Reputation’ / ‘Down in the Park’/ ‘Baker Street’ / ‘Danny Says’ / ‘Have a Cigar’ / ‘Never Talking to You Again’ / ‘Gas Chamber’ / ‘This Will Be Our Year’
Harlingtox A.D.
Harlingtox Angel Divine (Laundry Room, 1996): ‘Treason Daddy Brother in Crime Real Patriots Type Stuff ’ / ‘Orbiting Prisons in Space’ / ‘Recycled Children Never to Be Grown’ / ‘Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree’ / ‘Open Straightedge Arms’
David Grohl
Touch: Music from the Motion Picture (Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Bill Hill Theme’ / ‘August Murray Theme’ / ‘How Do You Do’ / ‘Richie Baker’s Miracle’ / ‘Making Popcorn’ / ‘Outrage’ / ‘Saints in Love’ / ‘Spinning Newspapers’ / ‘Remission My Ass’ / ‘Scene 6’ / ‘This Loving Thing (Lynn’s Song)’ / ‘Final Miracle’ / ‘Touch’
Probot
Probot (Southern Lord/Roswell, 2004): ‘Centuries of Sin’ / ‘Red War’ / ‘Shake Your Blood’ / ‘Access Babylon’ / ‘Silent Spring’ / ‘Ice Cold Man’ / ‘The Emerald Law’ / ‘Big Sky’ / ‘Dictatosaurus’ / ‘My Tortured Soul’ / ‘Sweet Dreams’ / ‘I Am the Warlock’ (hidden track)
Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures (Columbia, 2009): ‘No One Loves Me & Neither Do You’ / ‘Mind Eraser, No Chaser’ / ‘New Fang’ / ‘Dead End Friends’ / ‘Elephants’ / ‘Scumbag Blues’ / ‘Bandoliers’ / ‘Reptiles’ / ‘Interludes with Ludes’ / ‘Warsaw or the First Breath You Take’ / ‘Caligulove’ / ‘Gunman’ / ‘Spinning in Daffodils’
Dave Grohl also appears on the following albums and EPs:
Buzz Osbourne, King Buzzo (Boner/Tupelo, 1992)
Backbeat Band, Backbeat: Songs from the Original Motion Picture (Virgin, 1994)
Mike Watt, Ball-Hog or Tugboat? (Columbia, 1995)
The Stinky Puffs, A Little Tiny Smelly Bit Of … (Elemental, 1995)
Puff Daddy, Been Around the World (Arista, 1997)
Earthlings?, Earthlings? (Man’s Ruin, 1998)
Reeves Gabrels, Ulysses (Della Notte) (E-Magine, 2000)
Earthlings, Human Beans (Man’s Ruin, 2000)
Tenacious D, Tenacious D (Epic, 2001)
Tony Iommi, Iommi (Divine/Priority, 2001)
David Bowie, Heathen (ISO/Columbia, 2002)
Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope, 2002)
Cat Power, You Are Free (Matador, 2003)
Killing Joke, Killing Joke (Zuma, 2003)
The Bangles, Doll Revolution (E1 Music, 2003)
Garbage, Bleed Like Me (Geffen, 2005)
Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth (Nothing/Interscope, 2005)
Pete Yorn, Nightcrawler (Columbia, 2006)
Tenacious D, The Pick of Destiny (Epic, 2006)
Juliette and The Licks, Four on the Floor (The Militia Group, 2006)
Jackson United, Harmony and Dissidence (Deck Cheese, 2008)
Various Artists, We WishYou a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging NewYear (Armoury, 2008)
The Prodigy, Invaders Must Die (Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl, 2009)
Slash, Slash (Roadrunner, 2010)
Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, Red Light Fever (Shanabelle/RCA, 2010)
Mondo Generator, Dog Food (Impedance, 2010)
Index
DG indicates Dave Grohl.
Abba
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Age of Consent
Aizlewood, John
Albini, Steve
Alexander, Phil
Alice in Chains
Alive & Kicking (compilation)
alternative rock
American hardcore movement
American Idol
Anderson, Dawn
Anderson, Greg
Angry Samoans
Arm, Mark
Articles of Faith
Auf der Maur, Melissa
Azerrad, Michael
Back and Forth (documentary)
Backbeat Band
Bad Brains
Bailey, Ernie
Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia
Baker, Brian
Ball-Hog or Tugboat? (Watt)
Bangles, The
Bayer, Samuel
Beach Boys, The
Beatles, The
Beefeater
Bergamo, Al
Berliner, Jill
Bernstein, Nils
B-52s
Biafra, Jello
Big Black
Bikini Kill
Billboard
Biscuits, Chuck
Black, Jack
Black Flag
Black Market Baby
Black Sabbath
Blender
Blurt
Blush, Steve
Bon Jovi, Jon
Bondi, Vic 50
Bonham, Jason
Bonham, John
Borzillo, Carrie
Boucher, Eric
Bowie, David
Bradford, Sherry
Brecht, Kurt
Brookes, Anton
Broomfield, Nick
Buck, Peter
Burckhard, Aaron
Bush, George W.
Butthole Surfers
Buzzcocks
Cafritz, Julia
Cameron, Keith
Carlson, Dylan
Cassidy, Spike
Cathedral
Cavalera, Max
CBGBs
Celtic Frost
Channing, Chad
Chick, Stevie
Christgau, Robert
Christy, Nick
Chum
Circle Jerks
Clarke, Kory
Clash, The
Classic Rock
Clinch, Danny
Cobain, Frances Bean
Cobain, Kurt
birth and childhood
Bleach, recording of
coma
connection with audience
death
DG and
drug use
first bands
first recordings
In Utero and
Love and see Love, Courtney
major labels, attitude towards
musical tastes
myth making
myth of
Nevermind, promotional campaign
Nevermind, recording of
Novoselic, first meets
parents’ divorce and
plots career
publishing agreement, redraws
punk rock, introduction to
‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video and
touring
COC
Columbia Records
Cook, Paul
Copeland, E.L.
Copeland, Stuart
Corbijn, Anton
Corgan, Billy
Cornell, Chris
Corrosion of Conformity
Costello, Elvis
Cows
Cramps, The
Crash, Darby
Crawford, Scott
Cronos
Cross, Charles R.
Crover, Dale
Cubby Bear (Chicago club)
Dag Nasty
Dain Bramage
Dalle, Brody
Damned, The
Danzig
David Grohl Alley, Warren, Ohio
Dead Boys
Dead Kennedys
Dean, Mike
Deep Purple
Def Jam
Deftones
Dinosaur Jr
Discharge
Dischord
D.O.A.
Donaldson, Chip
Dorrian, Lee
Doughty, Michael
Doyle, Tad
D.R.I.
Dukowski, Chuck
Dulli, Greg
Durango, Santiago
Durkee, Bob
Dylan, Bob
Earl, Mari
Edgar Winter Group
11th Hour
Embrace
Endino, Jack
Everman, Jason
Factory Records
Fair, Jad
Faith
Fang
Farrell, Boyd
Farrell, Ray
Fartblossom Records
Fecal Matter
Fennelly, Colin
Finch, Jennifer
Fitz of Depression
Flipper
Flipside
Fluid
Foege, Alec
Foo Fighters:
albums:
The Colour and the Shape
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters
Greatest Hits
In Your Honor
One by One
Skin and Bones
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Wasting Light
awards
birth of
DG as frontman
first live appearances
first press release
first tour
gigs/touring
logo
Million Dollar Demos
sales
songs:
‘Ain’t It the Life’
‘All My Life’
‘Alone + Easy Target’
‘Aurora’
‘Best of You’
‘Big Me’
‘Breakout’
‘Burn Away’
‘Butterflies’
‘Cold Day in the Sun’
‘Come Back’
‘Dear Rosemary’
‘Disenchanted Lullaby’
‘DOA’
‘Enough Space’
‘Everlong’
‘Exhausted’
‘Floaty’
‘For All the Cows’
‘Friend of a Friend’
‘Full Mount’
‘Have It All’
‘Home’
‘I Should Have Known’
‘I’ll Stick Around’
‘Knucklehead’
‘The Last Song’
‘Learn to Fly’
‘Lonely as You’
‘Long Road to Ruin’
‘Low’
‘M.I.A.’
‘Make a Bet’
‘Miracle’
‘Miss the Misery’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘Mountain ofYou’
‘My Hero’
‘New Way Home’
‘No Way Back’
‘Oh, George’
‘On the Mend’
‘Overdrive’
‘Podunk’
‘The Pretender”
‘Release’
‘Rope’
‘Spooky Tune’
‘Stacked Actors’
‘Tears for Beers’
‘These Days’
‘This Is a Call’
‘Times Like These’
‘Tired of You’
‘Tom Petty’
‘Walk’
‘Walking After You’
‘Watershed’
‘Wheels’
‘White Limo’
‘Winnebago’
‘Word Forward’
‘X-Static’
Foster, Dave
4AD
Four Horsemen, The
Freak Baby
Fricke, David
Friedman, Glen E.
Fugazi
Gaar, Gillian G.
Garbage
Garfield, Henry see Henry Rollins
Geffen Records
Germs,The
Gersh, Gary
Ginn, Greg
Go Team, The
Goatsnake
Gold Mountain
Goldberg, Danny
Goldberg, Michael
Goldsmith, William
Goodacre, Martyn
Gordon, Kim
Gore, Al
Gossard, Stone
Graham, Bill
Grammy Awards
Gray Matter
Green Day
Green River
Greene, Elizabeth
Groff, Skip
Grohl, Dave:
albums see under individual band name
bands see under individual band or project name
charisma
childhood
collaborations see also under individual artist name
depression and anxiety
discography
divorce
drug taking
family background
finances
first band
first gigs/collaborations, post-Nirvana
first songs post-Nirvana
40th birthday
girlfriends
guitar playing
hyperactivity
Los Angeles and
marriages
musical tastes
‘Nicest Man in Rock’
parents’ divorce and
personality
politics
punk rock and
solo record (Pocketwatch)
songwriting see under individual band or project name
soundtrack, writes (Touch)
switches to drums
tattoos
therapy
see also see Dain Bamage; Foo Fighters; Freak Baby; Harlingtox A.D.; Late!; Mission Impossible; Nirvana; Probot; Queens of the Stone Age; Scream; Them Crooked Vultures; Touch
Grohl, Harper Willow (daughter)
Grohl, James (father)
Grohl, Jordyn (wife)
Grohl, Lisa (sister)
Grohl, Violet Maye (daughter)
Grohl, Virginia (mother)
Grohol, John (great-grandfather)
grunge revolution
Guns N’ Roses
Gwar
Habibion, Sohrab
Haden, Petra
Hagerty, Neil
Half Japanese
Hampton, Mike
Hanna, Kathleen
Happy Flowers
Harlingtox Angel Divine
Hawkins, Taylor
Heartbreakers, The
Herrema, Jennifer
Hester, Drew
Hetfield, James
HG Hancock Band
Himelfarb, Gary
Hinkle, Larry
Hoerner, Dan
Hokanson, Greg
Hole
Homme, Josh
Houghton, Mick
House, Daniel
Hovercraft
Hudson, Earl
Hudson, Paul
Hüsker Dü
Hyde Park
Iggy Pop
Inner Ear
Jaffee, Rami
Jenifer, Darryl
Jerry A
Jesus Lizard
Johannes, Alain
Johnson, Calvin
Johnson, Lisa
Jones, Barrett
Jones, John Paul