{"id":650,"date":"2014-10-27T09:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:18","slug":"david-eric-dave-grohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"David Eric &#8220;Dave&#8221; Grohl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/davegrohl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-651 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/davegrohl-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"davegrohl\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/davegrohl-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/davegrohl.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>David Eric\u00a0&#8220;Dave&#8221;\u00a0Grohl\u00a0(born January 14, 1969)\u00a0is an American\u00a0rock\u00a0musician,\u00a0multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer, and film director, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and founder of the band\u00a0Foo Fighters, who first gained recognition and fame as the drummer for the\u00a0grunge\u00a0band\u00a0Nirvana.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of seventeen, Grohl auditioned with local DC favorites\u00a0Scream\u00a0to fill the vacancy left by the departure of drummer\u00a0Kent Stax. \u00a0In order to be considered the position, Grohl lied about his age, claiming he was 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To Grohl&#8217;s surprise, the band asked him to join. \u00a0After waffling for a brief period, Grohl accepted the offer. Grohl dropped out of high school in his junior year; he said, &#8220;I was seventeen and extremely anxious to see the world, so I did it.&#8221; \u00a0Over the next four years, Grohl toured extensively with the band, recording a couple of live albums (their May 4, 1990 show in Alzey, Germany being released by Tobby Holzinger as\u00a0Your Choice Live Series Vol.10) and two studio albums,\u00a0No More Censorship\u00a0and\u00a0Fumble, on which Grohl penned and sang vocals on the song &#8220;Gods Look Down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihoponmonday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}