Dave Grohl on Starting a Band

Foo Fighters frontman and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl talks about finding his musical identity, tells the story of the creation of his first band, and how important drive is to follow your dreams.

[Pyrohelix_]

I wish I had friends to start a band.

Edit: I’m in a band now.

Here is a message to those who want to start a band but can’t find anyone. You will find people. It’s a hard process. It can take years to find people. If you want to start looking, go to local shows and talk to these bands. Talk to the people who go to these shows. Chances are they will like almost the same music as you.
This is not 100% but will help.

[strwbrrycluds]

All I want in life is to be in a rock band. That's all I ever want.

[cranberryjuice]

just started a band because of this dude. he didnt know how to play the drums but he learned by just messing around and eventually he got it and thats what im doing with guitar and its actually working out pretty well.

[samuelrogers]

Man, imagine if Dave Grohl was in your teenage band.

[DavidD-unoy]

I’m. 68. This year I started a band and released my first album. Amazing to see your music on iTunes and get feedback from fans. Never too late folks.

[xcaliber]

Imagine being in Dave Grohl’s childhood band

[lettucekisses]

Me and two other friends just said fuck it lets start a band on Boxing Day last year. We have two guitarists, a drummer who has never played drums before and no bassist, we’ve been going for 8 months now. Don’t have a name, haven’t established a genre, haven’t wrote one full song, all we do is jam and improv random shit and have only just learnt our first cover a week ago. All that said this has been consistently the most fun I’ve ever had. We do it once a week every Sunday and I never want to stop. Even if we never figure out a name or write a song or get a bassist. Our plan now is to learn a set of covers of the next few months and then go to an open mic and play. You don’t have to be good or like the typical band, as long as you’re doing it because you think it’s fun then what does it matter.

[noahcaster]

I really want to meet Dave Grohl in person. I play guitar and i gonna try to start a band when i'm in highschool

[kyletaylor]

dave join my band it'll be worth it trust me

[laluko]

Please someone start a band with me lmao I’ve tried so hard but no one wants to . I like bands like nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Deftones, tool, Radiohead, foo fighters etc .

[GuiasMaurelChile]

I'm a musician, and I started to learn how to play guitar with Foo Fighters songs because they had "easy" chord progressions, not a lot of guitar solos, and that's what lead me to keep playing, form a band, write original songs, and Foo Fighters became my favorite band

[colegreenleaf]

I just love playing music with people, wether it's covers or just jamming around or anything, I feel so alive and genuinely happy playing music

[patrickolivier]

Most people love the idea of being in a band more so than actually willing to do the work to be in band. Trust me if you’re life’s calling is to be creating music with different individuals, you’re all ready putting it together now. Wishing for anything accomplishes absolutely nothing, just make it happen.

[zandamcpanda]

I'm in high school now and see all these people in bands and I never had the confidence to start a band, I'm kind of not too great at saying "Hey wanna be in a band." actually a number of my music friends are already in bands and I don't know what to do to be honest

[rybonesk]

I was in a high school band, but we broke up for our own reasons... I still look back fondly on that time and wish I could do something like that again but I'm not great at meeting new people :(

[Leonardos]

Bruh thank you so much I got so much inspiration from this and made a band I can’t thank you enough btw I’m a big fan thank

[BusyMEOW]

You CAN do nearly everything yourself, like Dave said.
You just need the drive to want to do it and don't give up when things get hard 👍

[melvinjames]

That is the most inspiring thing I’ve ever heard David Roche about music

[lukechesnut]

I really want to start a rock band with my cousin and I don’t know if anyone cares or not but would anybody be interested in a return of like Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, poison, or ratt’s sound. I want to know if people would actually like it before I take the big plunge

[blakeslatton]

I’m in a band called contagion but making good music is really difficult and we all have 5 plus years of experience now I know what I need to do