Dave Grohl was recently photographed backstage before a Foo Fighters performance in New York at Madison Square Garden with his shirt off getting a massage. View the awesome photo below.
Grohl recently discussed his career in a Chicago Tribune interview.
“Believe me,” Dave Grohl says, “I wake up every day and can’t believe this is my job. And the fact that I get to do it with people I actually love in places like Wrigley Field?” His voice trails off, and suddenly, for a rare moment, the liveliest and most caffeinated dude in rock music is at a loss for words. Calling this summer morning from Los Angeles, where he’s just dropped off his children at camp, Grohl continues. “It’s not lost on me, dude,” the Foo Fighters frontman says of a multidecade career in which he bounced back from the devastating 1994 death of his Nirvana bandmate, Kurt Cobain, formed the Foos the following year, released a platinum-selling debut album, and now, more than 20 years on, finds himself headlining stadiums. “We all feel so incredibly lucky.”
He may be one of the biggest rock stars on the planet, but Grohl readily admits he and the Foo Fighters, who play Wrigley on Sunday and Monday, are amazed at what their life has become. The Grammys they’ve racked up? The collaborations with music icons such as Paul McCartney and Iggy Pop? Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates— including drummer Taylor Hawkins, guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, bassist Nate Mendel, and keyboardist Rami Jaffee — often find themselves wondering how they succeeded so gloriously where so many others failed. “A lot of the times we just feel undeserving of a lot of it,” Grohl says. The singer-guitarist recounts one particular moment from last summer’s European tour when the band showed up at an airport only to discover they’d been allotted their own private jet. “And this plane was gigantic!” Grohl recalls with a laugh. “It was crazy! Taylor (Hawkins) and I sat in the front of the plane and said to each other, ‘We’re not good enough to have this plane! We need to get to the practice room and get tight!’ ”
