Dave Grohl Reflects on Nirvana Days & Foo Fighters' Debut Album on Its 25th Anniversary

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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’,

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Dave Grohl has reflected on making Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut album, 25 years after its release.The band’s frontman recorded an initial tape version of the album almost entirely by himself “for fun” before record labels expressed interest in releasing it.Speaking to Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music’s Beats 1, Grohl recalled the process of making the album. “I actually recorded the whole thing in sequence,” 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.

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