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Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl: 'We think we
suck'
Dave
Grohl of Foo Fighters has said that he and his band
think they "suck". The frontman also said that Foo
Fighters are a "really simple band" and that they still
feel like the "five dorks" that they were when the band
formed. Grohl said: You have to understand, we're a
really simple band. We think we suck and we try really
hard to make good records and we practice. We don't feel
like the biggest, best band in the world. We just feel
like the same five dorks that were touring in a van 17
years ago, that hasn't changed.
Grohl went on to say that last year was the best year of
his whole life. "It's been a good one, 2011 was very
good to me,' he said. "I was at a New Year's Eve party
and someone asked me how was my year, and I said I
honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,
and I actually meant it."
The former Nirvana drummer also said that rock is
currently 'overlooked'. He explained: "I don't think
there's anything wrong with rock at all. It's
overlooked. And right now, the current musical climate
is not unlike it was back in 1991, right before Nirvana
got popular."
He continued: "The late '80s was full of over-produced
pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of - they had no
way of connecting to this hair metal band singing about
fucking strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard.
Who can relate to that? Then you had a bunch of
formulaic pop songstress bullshit, and music was boring.
And then a bunch of bands with dirty kids got on MTV and
rock'n'roll became huge again. And I feel like that's
about to happen. Something's got to give. It can't be
song contests on television for the rest of our lives."
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