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re: What makes Dave Grohl a great drummer?
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:20 am to monsterballads
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:20 am to monsterballads
quote:Not a drummer but that sounds pretty basic.
Everlong drums isolated
I think he is a great musician btw. I like foo fighters, have seen them live, but don't listen to them regularly. A lot of their music sounds the same to me
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Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:30 am to bisceaux
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A lot of their music sounds the same to me
True, but this can be said about a ton of bands that have fairly long careers, imo. I think it’s the reason that we consistently like the first few albums in a band’s career more than their other stuff.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:48 am to AUjim
He was drummer on Songs for the Deaf, one of the best albums from the last 2 years.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:57 am to AUjim
The popularity of the band and his image as a good guy are what does it. Nothing special about him as a musician.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 11:06 am to SUB
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He was drummer on Songs for the Deaf, one of the best albums from the last 2 years.
I feel confident that you failed to include a 0.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 2:10 pm to Zappas Stache
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They are just a decent radio band IMO, kind of like Pearl Jam
I would argue PJ is in a different league the Foo Fighters. But I also couldn’t name a single foo fighters song so what do I know?
Posted on 4/9/22 at 9:23 pm to Lsut81
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He’s considered a great drummer? First I’ve ever heard this.
Are you being contrarian or something here? He is often discussed as a great drummer. His work with Nirvana was solid, the Foo songs he drummed on are great, and his album with QOTSA is stupid good. He gets a lot of love because of how visible he is but his name pops up quite a bit when best 90s/00s drummers come up.
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The popularity of the band and his image as a good guy are what does it. Nothing special about him as a musician.
He's been relevant in rock for 30 years as a drummer and frontman. There's something special about him.
This post was edited on 4/9/22 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:19 pm to bisceaux
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Not a drummer but that sounds pretty basic.
Really great musicians. get that way because they know what not to play.
This post was edited on 4/9/22 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 4/9/22 at 11:23 pm to Srbtiger06
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but his name pops up quite a bit when best 90s/00s drummers come up.
Where...Thrillist? He's a solid drummer, good voice, good musician, he has the X factor. But is he among the greats? Naw....kinda like Jack White.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 11:56 pm to High C
yep
Posted on 4/10/22 at 7:59 am to bisceaux
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Not a drummer but that sounds pretty basic.
You aren’t really paying attention to the high hat work, the fills, or the complete robot like consistency in that song
Posted on 4/10/22 at 10:34 am to Zappas Stache
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Naw....kinda like Jack White.
You got a lot of downvotes, but this is a solid comparison. Jack White is revered because he created a unique and signature sound while writing a LOT of catchy songs, maintaining relevance through different bands over decades. What he’s actually playing isn’t that supremely difficult, but by mastering effects and production techniques, managed to make the routine and the advanced intermediate sound novel and interesting.
Dave Grohl also a great songwriter who maintains long relevant cqreer not by making impossible music to duplicate, but by making interesting, accessible, and catchy music.
No one really talks about The Beatles music as being all that technically difficult (with rare exceptions), but they’re revered for their ability to consistently pump out high volumes of well-crafted songs. They took simple basic chords and rhythms and spun them into gold that was greater than the sum of its parts. Great songwriters like Grohl and White do that and keep doing it for 25+ years.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 11:27 am to AUjim
Limb independence.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 11:55 am to H-Town Tiger
In interviews, Grohl says that Taylor Hawkins was a more technical drummer than he ever was. That being said, I would love to be able to play one instrument as well as Grohl plays multiple instruments.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 4:42 pm to DLSWVA
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Grohl says that Taylor Hawkins was a more technical drummer than he ever was.
Absolutely true but Hawkins never wrote anything close to the drum parts Grohl did. Everlong, My Hero, Smells Like Teen Spirit, No One Knows....all instantly recognizable.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 7:01 pm to Srbtiger06
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Are you being contrarian or something here? He is often discussed as a great drumme
No, honestly have never heard of him considered a great drummer
Of course, Ringo is often considered top 10 and I think that’s laughable so… I like Grohl, thinks he’s charismatic and an ingenious frontman, but like I said, never heard someone say he’s a great drummer. Guess he is by this thread.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 7:55 pm to DLSWVA
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I would love to be able to play one instrument as well as Grohl plays multiple instruments.
The ray gun original foo fighters album is still my favorite. I know they’re technically created “better” albums since but that album had so much fricking energy to it. Hard to believe he played all the instruments on it.
Alone and an Easy Target is still my all time favorite Foo song.
This post was edited on 4/10/22 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 4/11/22 at 6:22 am to AUjim
He can count to 4 over and over really fast?
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:23 am to Lsut81
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No, honestly have never heard of him considered a great drummer
he's considered a great drummer by every drummer ranking. is he danny carrey? no, no one is. I think it would be obtuse to listen to everything he's done in the last 30 years with nirvana, solo work, QOTSA, them crooked vultures and all of the other stuff he's done and say "i've never heard of him being good etc etc".
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you don't get put on the cover of modern drummer magazine if you aren't good.
I liked the foo fighters first two records a lot. haven't really cared for much after 1997 from Dave and co. but I can't deny that he is a bad arse when it comes to being a drummer. he has some of THE MOST memorable drum sounds in modern rock in the last 30 years. the flams on nirvana songs, QOTSA... he's creative and consistent.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 9:49 am to monsterballads
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you don't get put on the cover of modern drummer magazine if you aren't good.
Or famous. He is a big name people like to put on lists to show they are taking into account the modern era and people like to find the names they know. Wouldn't get many hits if your lists featured much more technically talented but much less famous drummers. That's not to say that popular drummers can't be great: Bonham and Ginger Baker proved that false and Grohl doesn't belong in the same conversation with them. I don't think great drumming when i think about Nirvana and I don't think great anything when i think of FF. They are mediocre.
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