Dave Grohl

In 1994, he married a photographer, Jennifer Youngblood. Together they did few of the works for his bands, including shooting the photographs for Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged in New York’ and artwork image for the Foo Fighter’s debut album. Their relationship was short-lived and they eventually split up in 1997.

On August 2, 2003, he married Jordyn Blum whom he had met in the Sunset Marquis hotel bar in Los Angeles. The couple has two children, Violet Maye and Harper Willow.

He was born to James Grohl and his wife Virginia Grohl who soon relocated from Warren, Ohio to Springfield, Virginia. His parents divorced when he was six and he was raised by his mother.

At 12, he started learning guitar but soon got fed up of the lessons. As a result, he taught himself and began playing in bands with friends. During his summer vacations, he was introduced to punk rock genre by his cousin Tracy who took him to various punk band performances in Illinois. He saw his first live concert at Chicago by a Chicago-based punk rock group ‘Naked Raygun’.

He enrolled as a freshman in Thomas Jefferson High School, Virginia and was voted to be the vice-president of his new class. But soon he was transferred to Bishop Ireton High School, Alexandria, by his mother as his grades got badly affected due to his drug addiction. He stayed there for two years before getting transferred to yet another school, Annandale High School, Virginia.

During his high-school years, he played extensively with several local bands including ‘Freak Baby’. Meanwhile, he learnt to play drums on his own.

In his late teens, he went to 9.30 club on a regular basis. It was a live music concert venue in Washington DC which highly influenced his life and shaped up his na�ve mind.

At 17, he auditioned and got selected to be the drummer in a hardcore punk band ‘Scream’ for which he dropped out of high school in his junior year. He travelled extensively with the band and recorded many live albums with them out of which ‘No More Censorship’ and ‘Fumble’ became very popular.

In late 1990s, ‘Scream’ got disbanded and he went to Seattle to audition for ‘Nirvana’. He joined the band full-time after getting selected, and they signed a deal in due course of time with a major record label, ‘DGC Records’. Thereafter, the band recorded their first album ‘Nevermind’ and released it.

Meanwhile, disappointed from his struggling drummer status in the band, he went on to compose lyrics and songs all by himself. In 1992, he compiled and released his own cassette ‘Pocketwatch’ on Indie label ‘Simple Machines’ under the pseudonym Late! Apart from this, he played drums on Buzz Osborne’s solo-EP for which he earned the pseudonym Dale Nixon.

Before heading on to their European tour in 1994, he and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana fame worked on many demos at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle. The duo together completed many of his songs until the arrival of Cobain. They later recorded a demo of the song entitled ‘You know you’re right’ which proved to be the band’s last studio recording.

In April 1994, the band came to a halt with Kurt Cobain’s death. Soon in October, he recorded a fifteen-track demo at Robert Lang’s Studio in Seattle and played all of the instruments on his own.

In 1993, Nirvana released ‘In Utero’ which included one of his self-composed songs ‘Marigold’ (originally ‘Colors of a Marigold’) as a B-side on their famous single, ‘Heart-shaped box’. Meanwhile, he also recreated the music of ‘The Beatles’ for the movie ‘Backbeat’.

In 1999, he recorded Foo Fighter’s third album ‘There is Nothing Left to Lose’ in his basement-turned-recording studio. Its single, ‘Learn to fly’, proved to be a runaway success.

In 2002, he helped Chan Marshall of ‘Cat Power’ on the album ‘You Are Free’ and also played with ‘Queens of the Stone Age’ on their album. Soon he re-recorded his own album at a studio in Virginia and released it soon as ‘One by One’.

On November 23, 2002, he made it to the top of the ‘Billboard Modern Rock’ chart with ‘All My Life’ by Foo Fighters. Thereafter, he remained at the top for quite some time.

On September 25, 2007, he released his sixth album ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace’. Soon after, they released their ‘Greatest Hits’ collection bringing together 16 tracks including an unreleased acoustic version of ‘Everlong’, and two fresh tracks, ‘Wheels’ and ‘Word Forward’.