Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters bandmates Pat Smear and Nate Mendel recently were photographed with acclaimed comedian Bert Kreischer. Kreischer had his shirt off for the photo, and wrote on Twitter, “The #TourBusChamp with royalty. @foofighters #DaveGrohl #NateMendel #PatSmear.”
Bert Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, reality television host and actor. In 1997 he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer “the top partier at the Number One Party School in the country.” The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. Kreischer has served as host of the television series Hurt Bert on FX as well as Bert the Conqueror and Trip Flip on Travel Channel.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl had a live conversation with Live Nation President Michael Rapino last week. Variety transcribed his comments.
On his first show: “”At 13 I saw a punk band at Cubby Bear across from Wrigley Field in Chicago. There was spitting, blood, broken bottles. It was disgusting and I was like, ‘I want to do this for the rest of my life.”
On dropping out of school: “I dropped out of the high school my mom was a teacher at to play music. I never ever for one second imagined this would happen. Had this not happened I would honestly be doing this anyway, because the love of live music started [for me] when I was six or seven.”
On technology: “A lot of the changes in music I don’t understand. I don’t know the difference between Pandora and Spotify. I don’t get it. I don’t have the app. Sorry.”
On rock music as day-job: “It’s only work if you don’t want to do it. I never say, ‘I don’t want to go onstage and drink whiskey and have 30,000 people sing my songs.’ It’s pretty cool.”
The #TourBusChamp with royalty. @foofighters #DaveGrohl #Natemendel #PatSmear pic.twitter.com/8V2wDvsmd1
— bert kreischer (@bertkreischer) February 14, 2019
