Dave Grohl Plays Secret Show In Nashville

May 9, 2014 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

Spotted on The Tennessean (above recap courtesy of Dish Nation):

Dave Grohl has made his mark playing high-volume rock ‘n’ roll shows for multiple thousands of people at a time.

But Wednesday evening, Grohl appeared at the Bluebird Cafe for a quiet, unannounced hour of solo/acoustic music in front of fewer than 100 patrons.

“My name’s Dave Grohl. I’m a drummer,” he said at show’s outset, though there were no drums in sight. He has drummed famously for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Nirvana and fronted his own Grammy-winning group, Foo Fighters, but Wednesday’s set was a contemplative, percussion-free affair. Grohl strummed an acoustic guitar and didn’t detail his reasons for playing the Bluebird, but a camera crew captured the event.

“The heart and soul of this city is in the music and the musicians,” he said. “It is an honor to be here.”

Grohl opened with “Times LIke These,” then moved through “Big Me,” “Friend of a Friend,” “My Hero,” “Skin and Bones,” “Wheels,” “Learn to Fly,” “Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners” and “Everlong.” He promised to then run outside and scream because he’d never played such a quiet show, but instead hung around and spoke with well-wishers.

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Joan Jett, Lorde & More Join Nirvana On Stage At Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction

April 11, 2014 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

From the New York Daily News:

Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic accepted their induction just four days after the 20th anniversary of Cobain’s death.

Nirvana’s emotional induction included speeches from Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, as well as his mother, Wendy O’Connor.

R.E.M’s Michael Stipe, whom Cobain greatly admired, gave the official induction.

“Nirvana captured lightning in a bottle,” he said. The band pushed “us forward towards our individual and collective potential.”

He saluted Nirvana’s anti-mainstream stance and specifically Cobain for offering an “outsider voice for the fags, the fat, the fed-up and the bullied.”

“Kurt, I miss you,” he said, rawly.

Cobain’s mother fought back tears as she said of her son “he would have been so proud. He’d say he wasn’t, but he would be.”

An uncommonly terse Love echoed that sentiment, “Tonight, he really would have appreciated.”

Love also vowed to give the award to their daughter, Francis Bean, “who isn’t here because she’s sick.”
Novoselic thanked Cobain for fronting music “that means so much for so many people.”

Joan Jett sang lead with the band on a ferocious “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Several other women also sang Cobain’s parts with genuine brilliance and edge: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth on “Aneurysm,” Annie Clark on “Lithium” and Lorde on “All Apologies.”

You can read more about the induction — which also included greats Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, Yusef Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates and The E Street Band — at the New York Daily News.

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