The Nicest Guy in Rock, Dave Grohl, turns 48 today. In celebration of everyone’s favourite multi-instrumental globe-straddling polymath, here’s a few Grohl facts that you might not know:
- He’s been honoured by his birth town – Warren, Ohio – twice, with a David Grohl alley and a 902lb pair of drumsticks in the town’s centre.
- He played drums on the soundtrack of 1994 The Beatles film Backbeat, joined by Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore and R.E.M.‘s Mike Mills.
- After seeing a photo of Andrew WK with a bloody nose, Dave asked him to support the Foo Fighters on tour and helped him get a recording contract.
- He described PSY‘s ‘Gangnam Style’ as “one of [his] favourite songs of the last decade“.
- He’s freaked out by Japanese porn: “Japanese hotel porn is creepy because it doesn’t look like anyone is enjoying what they’re doing… they make it seem like crime, and I’m not into that.“
- A dedicated cheese fan, Grohl is however not comfortable with goat’s cheese as it tastes like “sucking a dirty goat’s tit“.
Happy birthday, Dave!
