Dave Grohl

What an amazing individual and songwriter. Born in Ohio January 14th, 1969. Grohl is a self taught musician. He plays drums, guitar, bass, and piano.

He was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana from 1990 until the band dissolved in 1994 after frontman Kurt Cobain's death. He formed the Foo Fighters in 1995.

Grohl is indirect when asked if the song My Hero is, as rumored, about Cobain.

"'My Hero' is a song about having heroes that are ordinary people," he says. "When I was young I didn't have sports heroes, I didn't have rock heroes. My heroes were friends of the family, people I knew. I still know most of my heroes. That song is about having respect for the ordinary person instead of the star."

In other words: Read between the lines. Grohl is leaving it up to the listener to figure out how.

Mark Twain

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

I had to read this a dozen times to finally understand what it was saying. I'm very fond of this quote. Before this life we were untouched and the absence of everything, even yourself, was sacred and lasted long, long, long.
...17 years ago.. and a hundred million years before that.. thoughtless but thought of.. not yet alive.. not quite dead.

We're older than we thought.