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Dave Grohl raises thousands for charity with drawings that help fans get wasted and sneak hash into gigs

Nirvana and Foo Fighters hero Dave Grohl's beer pong and hash smuggling blueprints raise money for good causes

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16 famous musicians who almost joined very famous bands

Best of 2023: What could have been: featuring The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Beatles, Van Halen, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and more

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Dave Grohl has sketched instructions for building a beer bong and how to smuggle hash in a cassette tape, and now they’re being auctioned for charity

Grohl's drawings show you how to party like it's 1989

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Alien rhythms, god-level chops and samurai guitar duels: these are the best guitar albums of 2023

Guitar World staff and readers reflect on the finest fretwork captured on record this year

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"I finally understood that I was in the middle of a Nirvana reunion": revisiting the night that 'Sirvana' - Sir Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana - rocked Madison Square Garden for charity

On this day in 2012, a Nirvana reunion of sorts took place in New York City. Courtney Love was not amused

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Dave Grohl Hopping On The Tongs To Feed Homeless Folk In Melb Simply Couldn’t Be A Bigger Vibe

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has taken time out of his rockstar schedule to help folks in need of a feed as Christmas draws nearer.

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Watch Dave Grohl unleash a 36-minute live version of his Play instrumental

The performance was captured as part of Warren Haynes' 20th Annual Christmas Jam in 2018

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10 times major metal stars cameoed in music videos

Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne and Dave Grohl have all made music videos 10 times better just by showing up

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"I never realised how funky Dave was!": Watch a jazz professor at elite music school Juilliard try to play Dave Grohl's drum parts on Nirvana classic In Bloom without having ever heard the song

Dave Grohl thought that no-one spotted his funk influences on Nevermind, but it turns out he was wrong

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How the Ampeg Dan Armstrong may well have become a footnote in guitar history had the 'See-Through' electric not ended up in the hands of Keith Richards

Ronnie Wood, Joe Perry and Dave Grohl all played Dan Armstrongs over the years – here's why it's one of the coolest guitars ever

Guitar World

Geordie Walker, Killing Joke’s pioneering guitarist and co-founder, dies aged 64

Guitarist joined the band in 1979 and, along with frontman Jaz Coleman, was their only sole constant member

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“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: Revisiting Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance 30 years on

The grunge icons did the show their way - and it was one for the ages

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Geddy Lee says that Paul McCartney has tried to convince him and Alex Lifeson to tour again: “He was lecturing Al about how great it is... ‘You have to do it, man. You have to get back out there’”

It sounds like McCartney made a persuasive case but Lee says Lifeson might still need some more persuading before we can look forward to any form of Rush reunion tour

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“Reverlong reunion!” Scott Ian’s 12-year-old son, Revel, reunites with Foo Fighters at Dave Grohl’s studio to jam Everlong – and nails it using Pat Smear’s Gibson Les Paul

Four years after he smashed the track as an 8-year-old during the band's Bourbon & Beyond Festival set, Revel returned to the Foo Fighters lineup during a wholesome jam session

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"I love you Foos": Watch Scott Ian's 12-year-old son Revel play Everlong with Foo Fighters at Dave Grohl's studio

"Rev gave Pat the day off" jokes Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, as his 12-year-old son Revel subs in for Pat Smear at a Foo Fighters rehearsal

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“'Cocaine buffet?' they would say. 'Just help yourself'”: Gene Simmons, Dave Grohl and The Darkness make surreal cameo appearances in singer/songwriter James Blunt's outrageous 'non-memoir' Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story

A number of high profile rock stars pop up for memorable appearances in James Blunt's new 'non-memoir', which may be the most entertaining book ever written by any musician

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“I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure

Lee and bandmate Alex Lifeson played Rush classics with Dave Grohl, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith and Danny Carey

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"I went up to Dave and said, I don’t understand what the problem is": Bush's Gavin Rossdale on how he and Dave Grohl buried the hatchet on their '90s feud

Observers of '90s rock feuds will be delighted to hear that the 'beef' between Foo Fighters and Bush has been amicably quashed

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"Here's to Hell. May we have as much fun there as we had getting there": watch Steven Tyler, Slash and Dave Grohl serenade Howard Stern at his 60th birthday celebrations

Howard Stern's 60th birthday party was quite a night, not least when Steven Tyler, Slash and Dave Grohl formed a supergroup to play an Aerosmith classic

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"Now it's like one big giant robot made of everybody": Queens of the Stone Age's Jon Theodore on adapting to QOTSA's drumming alumni, a decade in the band and In Times New Roman…

The QOTSA drummer talks In Times New Roman…rediscovering wood drums and firing Dave Grohl's Song For The Dead drum intro into space

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Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

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“We’ll fight Foo day and night to make sure you receive the compensation you deserve." Watch the brilliant moment Foo Fighters posed as lawyers in a fake TV commercial

Dave Grohl and co. filmed the hilarious skit for the Letterman show back in 2014

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Kurt Cobain’s Last Show Guitar To Fetch $1-2 Million At Auction

The Fender Mustang played by Cobain before his death is set to go under the hammer, along with other iconic rock memorabilia.

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Rick Astley on Morrissey, getting Rick-Rolled, and his biggest hit

The Eighties pop star talks his surprise renaissance as an internet meme, becoming a Smiths tribute singer and using the Mission Impossible team in his new music video

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The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

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