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Very few people will ever actually know what it feels like to be a part of one of the biggest rock bands in the world in front of a devoted audience. Dave Grohl<\/a> knows it well, but it may come as a surprise to learn that when he actually experienced this feeling, it wasn\u2019t with Foo Fighters.<\/p>\n The Foos might be one of the most divisive bands that ever was. Billed by some as the ultimate dad rock and by others as quintessential rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, the Grohl-fronted band have had their share of critics. But Grohl is well aware of this, and yet very little can come along and actually stand in the way of his vision. An attitude that\u2019s been there from the very beginning.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot to be said about the band\u2019s stage presence alone. It\u2019s often one of those that convinces people just from witnessing their sets alone. Anyone not that into the Foos will surely leave live performances feeling like something has clicked, and it\u2019s mostly down to the way Grohl just knows how to light a fire no matter what he\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n Other rockers will look at someone like Grohl and wonder what his secret is. They\u2019ll try to imitate some of the energy he brings out, though probably grow frustrated with their inability to captivate an audience in the same way he does. But in reality, it\u2019s like this because there is no secret to it. As he once said, when advising aspiring bands on how to occupy the stage, \u201cGo play live. Just play live.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to explain that the current state of the industry means there are people throwing things at you at all times. There\u2019s a ridiculous influx of technology, some you need, some you don\u2019t. There is so much that\u2019s confusing about the business nowadays that it\u2019s overwhelming. But what he did know was how important it is to trust feelings. <\/p>\n \u201cI just know when you walk into a club and you see a band that blows you away, you are going to follow that band,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Weirdly, one of the few times Grohl actually felt this on top of the world \u2013 the way most people think he constantly feels whenever he\u2019s on stage \u2013 wasn\u2019t when he was in the Foos at all. This time, when he went on stage and felt like he could truly do anything, marching out like he really felt like somebody<\/a>, was when he toured with Queens of the Stone Age.<\/p>\n Caveating his recollections with the value of being confident, he told Kerrang: \u201cThere\u2019s a level of confidence that\u2019s important when you play live. Most people get some sort of stage fright, but when I was in Queens Of The Stone Age, just walking onstage, we felt like a fucking brigade.\u201d <\/p>\n He went on, \u201cIt sounds terrible, but we fucking knew that you were about to see something that you ain\u2019t gonna see anywhere else. We were fearless, and I honestly feel like there wasn\u2019t anything we couldn\u2019t fucking do.\u201d He also separately talked about the appeal of seeing Stone Age live, saying, \u201cEverybody in the band is a fucking badass and they know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Fri 12 September 2025 4:00, UK Very few people will ever actually know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[12285,77,49034,269,53252,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dave-grohl","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-foo-fighters","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-queens-of-the-stone-age","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115190508213552743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}