Dave Grohl reflects on making Foo Fighters’ debut album 25 years on: “It was almost like a school project”

When it was first announced that actor Dave Franco was going to be making his feature directorial debut with a horror film he’d co-written with Joe Swanberg, it was…surprising. After all, Franco is known for comedy more so than other genres, and horror did not initially seem like something you’d expect from him.

Dave Grohl is raising his hand for teachers. In a new audio episode of his "Dave's True Stories" series, which debuted on Wednesday (July 22), he offers a nearly nine-minute homage to educators entitled "In Defense of Our Teachers." The love note to the teachers -- like his mom, Virginia, who taught in public schools in their Ohio hometown for three decades -- is the spoken-word version of an essay Grohl penned for The Atlanticon Tuesday.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is fighting for teachers!

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl issued a lengthy statement in which he criticized President Trump and his administration over plans to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. The musician recorded himself seemingly reading from a written statement in which he explained that he has a special place in his heart for America’s teachers given that his mother spent 35 years as an educator.

Foo Fighters’ founder Dave Grohl is incredibly passionate about education — most importantly, the people who are teaching the next generation. In the first audio clip from his series Dave’s True Stories, entitled In Defense Of Our Teachers, the rockstar, 51, explained his regret for missing out on most of his high school experience while advocating for educators amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Dave Grohl is speaking up on behalf of teachers.

Dave Grohl is raising his hand for teachers. In a new audio episode of his "Dave's True Stories" series, which debuted on Wednesday (July 22), he offers a nearly 9-minute homage to educators entitled "In Defense of Our Teachers."

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDave Grohl has spoken out in defense of teachers as the Trump administration continues its “daunting and evermore politicized question of reopening our schools in the coronavirus pandemic.”In the first audio version of the Foo Fighters founder’s “Dave’s True Stories” series, Grohl — whose mother (pictured with him above) was a public school teacher — says:“Every teacher has a ‘plan.’ Don’t they deserve one too? My mother had to come up with three separate lesson

Dave Grohl has paid tribute to the work done by teachers in the first spoken-word instalment of ‘Dave’s True Stories’ — you can listen to his ‘In Defence of Our Teachers’ audio piece below.Grohl delivered the message as part of his ongoing series ‘Dave’s True Stories’, which has been keeping fans entertained during the coronavirus pandemic with stories from Grohl’s past.‘In Defence of Our Teachers’ sees Grohl addressing his followers in audio form for the first time on ‘Dave’s True Stories’,

How I Met Your Mother, has poked fun at the series running for almost a decade when its central premise was the equivalent of 15 minutes.Radnor, who portrayed Ted Mosby in the Emmy Award-winning show, shared a photo of a DVD in a since-deleted Instagram post that has the words “How I Stretched A 15 Minute Story Into Nine [Fucking] Years” daubed across an image of the show’s characters.Metro screen-shotted the picture (see here), which Radnor captioned with, “Well….yeah”, suggesting that he too

Ringo Starr has marked his 80th birthday with a livestream featuring a series of appearances from some of his famous friends.The Beatles drummer is known for marking each birthday with a charity event in Hollywood, but coronavirus meant that he was forced to stage it from home for the first time.With Starr leading proceedings from his drum kit, the event saw cameos from the likes of Dave Grohl, Joe Walsh, Sheryl Crow and Elvis Costello – who all performed a selection of Beatles covers.After

Ringo Starr celebrated his 80th birthday with a livestream featuring some of his famous friends.

Ringo Starr is set to celebrate his 80th birthday in style.

Dave Grohl first stepped into Shoreline’s Robert Lang Studios in October 1994, still reeling from the death of his Nirvana band mate Kurt Cobain some six months earlier, he surely couldn’t of even dreamt of what the future had in store for his music career.Even now on the 25th anniversary of the release of Foo Fighters‘ self-titled debut album, he’s probably still trying to figure it all out.

Nirvana through the release of the first Foo Fighters album.The interview airs on Saturday (July 4), exactly 25 years after the Foo Fighters' debut, self-titled album arrived (on July 4, 1995).Grohl admitted that when he joined Nirvana and they became "really huge really quickly," he was still insecure that he wasn't quite good enough for the band."Well I mean I joined Nirvana, I was their fifth drummer, right?" he said.

Dave Grohl is opening up about how he was affected by the death of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.

Dave Grohl has reflected on how writing some of Foo Fighters‘ earliest songs proved to be an “exorcism” of the grief he experienced after the death of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.Speaking to Apple Music‘s Matt Wilkinson to mark Foo Fighters’ 25th anniversary, Grohl said that writing ‘This Is A Call’ – the band’s first major single – allowed him to go through an “awakening” after Cobain took his life in April 1994.“Most of the songs on that first record had been around for a while.

Linda Laban A few months after Kurt Cobain’s death in April 1994, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl called his longtime friend, musician and producer Barrett Jones: Grohl wanted studio time. What transpired was a five-day session manned by Grohl and Jones at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios which yielded, note for note — with only final mixes finished later — Foo Fighters’ self-titled, punk- and grunge-fueled, keenly melodic debut album.