I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

Grohl spent the initial months with Nirvana traveling to various major labels as the band shopped for a deal eventually signing with DGC Records. At the age of twelve Grohl began learning to play guitar.

Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot as well as being involved with Queens of the Stone Age numerous times throughout the past decade. David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14 1969) is an American rock musician multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film director who is the lead vocalist guitarist primary songwriter and founder of the Foo Fighters.