Which Nirvana songs do you like and dislike the most?
My least favourite would probably be Lounge Act. I never liked that song. It was basically filler. My favourite is either Milk It or Heart-Shaped Box.
Do people tend to over-analyse your songs now, looking for certain words?
In the song Still on the new record there's a line that says, "Never mind, what's done is done", and this Japanese journalist almost started crying. Like, "You said Nevermind!" Jesus, am I going to have to strike words from my vocabulary? So yeah, I think so.
TAYLOR HAWKINS is getting married at the weekend, so yesterday Grohl drove his grey BMW M5 into Beverly Hills to purchase a new outfit at Dolce & Gabbana's upmarket boutique, stopping to stock up on his favourite coffee, Graffeo, along rhe way. " So I'm holding this paper bag filled with three pounds of coffee and I'm standing there waiting to pay for my suit and the security guy comes up and says [tetchily] Who is this for? Who is this for? He thought I was the delivery man."
When not on the road with the Foo Fighters, Grohl seldom goes out. Even when he does, it's never for anything more glamorous than a barbeque with friends or a quiet dinner. "There aren't too many people that can turn off the gameshow when it's time to go home, and for whatever reason I've always been able to do that," he says. "I would never go to a movie premiere and hit a red carpet, I would never go to an awards ceremony that I wasn't involved in. I wouldn't ever do anything like that if I didn't have to." Barring "a couple of hits off a bowl" five years ago, he hasn't touched drugs since he was 20 and recently gave up smoking. His remaining vice is drinking, specifically beer, Crown Royal whisky or Brennivin. "It's an Icelandic schnapps that kind of tastes of cumin", he explains. "They call it Black Death and it makes you crazy like a Viking."
The last time Grohl found himself without a wife or girlfriend was during a '97 tour of Australia. Hawkins was only too pleased to join his friend in seizing what opportunities were presented to them.
"Yeah, that was the Who Could Get Laid More? Tour," says the drummer. And who did?
"Me! Dave could have, but I think he had higher standards than me." "It was basically just being a single guy on the road," says Grohl. " I didn't wind up with a stick of butter in my ass or anything."
While Grohl has no problem with dishing up a few wry anecdotes about past sexual escapades, his more serious girlfriends - such as former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur and ex-wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood - have remained subjects that he chooses not to discuss. "It's just out of respect for other people's privacy because I hope people would respect mine, " he says. Strange, then, that Grohl was recently reported as saying, "I should have listened to my friends and dumped the bitch" in reference to his first marriage.
"I know what you're talking about," he says. "It was recently and I was totally misquoted. I was referring to his |Italian girlfriend I had when I was 18. I read that and I was horrified. I doubt that Jennifer would ever read that, but if she did she'd be really surprised because we didn't really have an acrimonious split. It was uncomfortable at first but then we made friends."
Do you think you got married too young?
Well....yeah, I did. It was a crazy time. We got married a few months after Kurt died. We had been engaged for about a year before getting married. I think I was 24 when we were engaged. She was younger than I was, maybe not even 21. One of the reasons I live like this in a relatively modest environment [laughs] is because of that time.
What do you mean?
That was my crash course in how to be a rock star, '91 through '94, and it was horrifying, man. I was a fucking kid and people were dying and overdosing and...fucking...millions of records and...it was like being a child actor or something. That can fuck you up for the rest of your life. The whole time I just hid in the suburbs of Seattle with my girl and had barbecues with our friends who had nothing to do with the music scene at all I still kind of keep it that way."
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