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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 8 - Caught on Camera

Nirvana’s surviving members catch a global audience off guard as they make an unscheduled appearance at FireAid

The band appeared at last night’s charity spectacular with guest vocalists St Vincent, Joan Jett, Kim Gordon and Violet Grohl

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Watch Dave Grohl's daughter Violet front a surprise Nirvana reunion, and Billie Eilish join Green Day, at emotional FireAid concert in Los Angeles

Joan Jett, Kim Gordon and St. Vincent also joined Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear onstage at the charity fundraiser in Los Angeles

Metal Hammer

FireAid delivered loads of surprises. Here are some of the best moments from the musical benefit

FireAid brought together artists from musical generations and genres to help raise money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts

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‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

He skied with Bowie, boozed with Madness and recorded the Teardrop Explodes on acid. But does he regret blowing it with Dave Grohl? The great producer relives his smashes, parties and 11am vodkas

The Guardian - UK

Sean McLoughlin: ‘I tried to focus on my jokes but Dave Grohl was in the front row!’

The standup on playing to an audience of 17,000 at the Hollywood Bowl, taking Tunbridge Wells by storm and what he regrets about his 20s

The Guardian - UK

Dave Grohl spends birthday cooking for families displaced by LA fires

The Foo Fighters frontman turned 56 on Tuesday

The Independent UK

“This fiddle is Really Dope”: Cesar Gueikian all-but-confirms the return of the cult Gibson RD – an unsung build beloved by Dave Grohl and Ghost

One of the firm’s most obscure designs of the 1970s looks set for an unlikely return

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Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013

That time Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels fronted the ultimate rock supergroup

Louder

15 Celebrities Whose Cheating Scandals Rocked 2024

Celebrities-Cheating-Scandals-2024 The post 15 Celebrities Whose Cheating Scandals Rocked 2024 first appeared on Bored Panda.

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“We’ve got a new drummer, his name is Dave, he’s the best drummer in the world!”: the story of Dave Grohl's drums on Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Best of 2024: The drum part that introduced Nirvana and a drummer named Dave Grohl to the world was released on this day in 1991

MusicRadar

“Kurt was sitting in the bathtub with a Walkman on, listening to the song, and when the tape ended, he kissed me and said, 'Oh, finally, now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band!'”: Dave Grohl's evolution as a songwriter

Best of 2024: “I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

MusicRadar

“She’s a true torch singer. Her vocals are tremendous.” Dave Grohl's daughter Violet is working on her debut album

Violet Grohl is working on music with producer Justin Raisen (Kim Gordon/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Viagra Boys) according to The Hollywood Reporter

Louder

Gene Simmons: 'Rock music is still dead'

KISS rocker Gene Simmons says nothing has changed to make him believe rock music is alive and kicking.

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“Day two, Dave Grohl says, ‘You’re going to need more guitars.’ We walk into the shop and he’s going, ‘Get whatever you want.’ I was so freaked out”: Chris Shiflett on his guitar shopping spree when he first joined the Foo Fighters

Shiflett was taken to the store he’d once visited as a wishful-thinking kid – and was armed with Grohl’s credit card in order to get adequately kitted out for his new gig

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“Kurt ended up giving me this rad guitar!”: Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear recalls how his ‘good’ guitar wasn’t good enough for Nirvana

He heard somebody say: “We can’t let him on stage!”

Guitar World

“We’re doing my first-ever gig with Nirvana on SNL. What I didn’t know was there was a discussion about my guitar like, ‘No, we can’t let him on stage’”: Pat Smear’s first Nirvana appearance almost didn’t happen – because of his guitar

Smear had bought a 1982 Charvel when he was playing with Nina Hagen – but the guitar didn't quite impress the Nirvana troupe

Guitar World

“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: The story of Nirvana's seminal MTV Unplugged set

Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a remarkable and eclectic set that served as the haunting apex of Nirvana's final chapter

Guitar World

“Verboten played right across the street from Wrigley Field. Dave Grohl came with his sister when he was 13 and saw us play”: Jason Narducy on inspiring Dave Grohl, getting R.E.M. cover tips from Peter Buck – and being Bob Mould’s bassist

Starting his punk band Verboten at 11 with a “terrible” SG copy, the modest guitar hero (and Bob Mould bassist) remains in demand with his eternal passion, attention to detail and love of living room shows

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“It sold for $937,000 to an anonymous buyer who, we assume, doesn't play punk rock for a living”: From Joe Strummer’s Tele to Johnny Ramone's Mosrite, here are the iconic guitars behind the sound of punk – and the modern-day equivalents you can buy today

The filth, the fury, and '80s Fernandes Strat copies – these guitars, amps, and effects defined the sound of some of rock's greatest, and most rebellious, bands

Louder

"I don't only shoot famous people, but it's fun working with cranky old rock stars": Photographer Scarlet Page on her portraits of Lemmy, David Bowie, Dave Grohl, Chris Cornell and more

Scarlet Page has shot portraits of some of our greatest rock stars, and she's got stories about all of them

Guitar World

“An incredibly versatile tone shaping tool”: Supercool Pedals puts a new spin on the famed distortion box beloved by James Hetfield, Dave Grohl and Nuno Bettencourt

With the help of expanded controls and a new Turbo mode, the Barstow Bat promises to nail the ProCo Rat’s tones and then some

MusicRadar

“I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

Evening Standard

Dave Grohl 'no longer working with divorce attorney' after fathering secret child

Foo Fighters frontman hoping to reconcile with wife Jordyn Blum after admitting fathering a child with another woman

Guitar World

“I bought it off a druggie – which I feel terrible about”: From his beloved '59 Strat to his stable of ultra-delicate steampunk guitars, Rick Springfield discusses his guitar journey, and his mission to buy up every instrument he had to part with

The pedal-avoiding Jessie’s Girl songwriter recalls some of his best and worst purchases, and his experiences working with Neil Giraldo and Dave Grohl

The Independent UK

Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show is a hallowed chapter of Kurt Cobain’s history – it almost never happened

PLAYBACK: The Seattle grunge band performed on MTV Unplugged in a funereal setting of lit candles and white lilies. Mark Beaumont chronicles the troubled days leading up to the show, during which Kurt Cobain faced money-minded executives, a nervous fire marshal – and his inner demons

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