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Dave Grohl (born January 14, 1969 in Warren, Ohio) is a rock musician, who was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana from 1990 until the band split up in 1994 after frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide. He formed the band Foo Fighters later that year.

Grohl, who was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for the band Freak Baby , and later joined the Washington, DC punk rockPunk rock is the anti-establishment music movement of the period 1976- 80, exemplified by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Damned. This term is also used to describe subsequent music scenes that share key characteristics with those first-g band ScreamScream was Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981 by singer Peter Stahl, his brother Franz on guitar, bassist Skeeter Thompson and drummer Kent Stax. Scream played a kind of suburban DC hardcore. They became the first band on the Dischord label to release a. Buzz Osbourne of The MelvinsThe Melvins were founded in 1984 in Seattle as a punk rock group, named after a fellow who was caught stealing Christmas trees. The Melvins have usually been a trio, with singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover being constant; several bass g recommended him to Nirvana after the departure of drummer Chad ChanningChad Channing was a drummer for the band Nirvana until he left (due to creative differences within the band—contrary to popular opinion, the departure of Chad was a mutual decision within the band with no hard feelings on either side) in 1990 and replaced. Dave Grohl joined Nirvana and moved to SeattleSeattle is the largest city in the U. state of Washington, and in the U. Pacific Northwest, with a total estimated population of 569,101 as of 2003. It is situated between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 108 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian bor in 1990, where at first he shared an apartment with Kurt Cobain. Grohl's distinctively heavy-handed drumming, a style he learned from banging marching band sticks on his bed as a teenager, were a driving force behind Nirvana's breakthrough album NevermindNevermind is Nirvana's second album, released in September of 1991. Significance Nevermind catapulted Nirvana from an obscure Seattle-area band to critical and popular success, signalling the end of the hair metal ballads and bombastic anthems. The openin.

Although while a member of Nirvana Grohl was known to most fans only as a drummer and backing vocalist, he had in fact played guitar for several years. In 1990 he released a cassette demo, Pocketwatch, under the name "Late!", for which he played all of the instruments. From this recording, the song "Marigold" would later become a Nirvana b-side (with Grohl on vocals), while "Winnebago" would later be released as a Foo Fighters song, as the b-side of "This Is A Call". Grohl also contributed a riff which would later become "Scentless Apprentice", from Nirvana's album In Utero.

Following Cobain's death Grohl recorded a fifteen-track demo, on which he again played all instruments with the exception of a guitar part on "X-Static", played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, and the bass part of "Alone + Easy Target", which was played by Krist Novoselic. The demo gained considerable buzz and was released, unchanged except for trimming three tracks, in 1995 as the Foo Fighters' debut album. Grohl did not want the effort to be considered the start of a solo career, so he recruited other band members. Former Nirvana member Pat Smear(guitar), and two members of the band Sunny Day Real Estate, William Goldsmith(drums) and Nate Mendel(bass).

After the release of their debut, the band released their second album The Colour and the Shape in 1997. Considered by many as the band's finest work to-date, it consists of hits such as: "Everlong", "My Hero", and "Monkey Wrench". However, after the release two members, Pat Smear and William Gold Smith left the band. Two new musicians soon replaced the departed members, Taylor Hawkins, who replaced Goldsmith and Franz Stahl, who replaced Smear. Stahl later left the group in the midst of a world tour and was replaced shortly thereafter by Chris Shiflett.

The Foo Fighters' tremendous success led once again to a life of touring and traveling for Grohl, who throughout the 1990s lived in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles before returning to his native Virginia, where his basement served as the recording studio for the 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

Aside from the Foo Fighters, Grohl has worked on several other musical projects, earning a reputation as a rock and roll "jack of all trades". He recorded the score for the 1996 film Touch . In 2001 he joined Queens of the Stone Age as a drummer, both for the recording of their album Songs for the Deaf and the tour which followed the album's release. In 2002 also played drums for Tenacious D. He has also drummed on the latest Killing Joke album.

Grohl spent the last several years working on a new side project named PROBOT. According to an interview published in the magazine Guitar World , the project began as a self-induced backlash against the more commercial friendly material Grohl wrote for There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The album features various metal singers on vocals, notably Lemmy of Motörhead, and is entirely Grohl's instrumentation except for 2 lead guitar tracks performed by Soundgarden's Kim Thayil.

In the 2002 Triple J Hottest 100 Dave Grohl achieved a new record of having a part in 10 of the top 100 songs, including the Nirvana track " You Know You're Right", over the release of which he and Novoselic had spent years battling with Cobain's widow Courtney Love.

In 2002 the Foo Fighters returned to the studio and released their fourth album, One by One.

Then later in 2003 he, once again on drums, helped Chan Marshall of the band Cat Power in recording the album "You Are Free".

Recently, one of Dave's demo tapes from 1993 has surfaced, which features early versions of some of the songs that ended up on the first Foo Fighters album. The demo also contains a previously unreleased song called "Mountain of You" (which was originally thought to be titled "Mountain View", but Dave has confirmed the real title in a posting on the official Foo Fighters message board).

In 2004 Dave Grohl drummed for industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' upcoming album With Teeth scheduled to be release in early 2005.