Dave Grohl: Escaping a Legacy
When Kurt Cobain blew his famously depressed and heroin filled brains out, he left behind a huge musical legacy for his two surviving band members to carry. A legacy which would be a prison for any independent musician. It's sheer size could easily bog down any musical endeavour. But Dave Grohl is no ordinary musician. He not only managed to emancipate himself, he did it in style. He formed The Foo Fighters.
In 2005, with the release of In Your Honour, their fifth album, Foo Fighters completed a decade of existence. Ten years of creating some really original and outstanding music. Formation of Foo Fighters was in no way an attempt by Grohl to exorcise Cobains ghost. As a matter of fact, Cobain still remains a big influence on Grohl's life and music. Frequent references of Cobain in Foo Fighter's songs is an evidence of this fact. It is also an acknowledgement.
Foo Fighters was an attempt by Grohl to step out of Cobain's shadow. To have his own musical space and freedom. Freedom so richly deserved.
posted by whitelight @ 10:19 AM
2 Comments:
when i heard 'big me' i knew these guys had something special. haven't followed their career very avidly though.
I bought tickets for "Foozer" mostly because of my intense and undying devotion to Weezer, and while I had bought "In Your Honor" it wasnt particularly dying to see the Foo Fighters.
However...
Dave Grohl has managed to become quite awesome, and in fact is a force to be reckoned with in the world of rock.
When he played alone an acoustic version of "Everlong" it was hard to not feel his passion and love for his music and at the same time not shed a little bit of a tear.
Hey, its a beautiful song, the emotion was valid... :)
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