Tag: Dave Grohl

Last night, as advertised, Paul McCartney was joined onstage at the 12-12-12 benefit concert by the surviving members of grunge giants Nirvana — Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and live guitarist Pat Smear.

Instead of Sir Paul leading the band through a medley of Bleach tunes, McCartney donned a cigar box guitar for a new song called “Cut Me Some Slack.” You can watch footage of the performance below.

“Recently some guys asked me to jam with them,” McCartney said, before being joined by Grohl and crew. “So I showed up like you do, ready to jam. And in the middle of it these guys kept saying, ‘We haven’t played together for years.’ Then it finally dropped… I finally understood I was in the middle of a Nirvana reunion.”

The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl has released a first look at his documentary “Sound City.”

As Billboard noted, “Sound City” will debut at the Sundance Film Festival and is the musicians first time in the director’s chair.

The film is about Sound City, the Van Nuys, Calif., studio that served as the recording space for several musicians and groups, including Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty. Grohl’s band Nirvana even recorded their album “Nevermind” in the iconic studio.

Dave Grohl is helping to piece together a documentary about Los Angeles studio Sound City.

Some studios seems to have an atmosphere, a life of their own. Something going beyond the kit inside, an ambiance that helps to inspire musicians to push themselves further and further.

Los Angeles studio Sound City was certainly among them.

So far, more than 40,000 people have signed up to a group on Facebook which is encouraging people to download Nirvana best-known song, Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the week leading up to the Christmas number 1.

‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has been given 6/1 odds to top this year’s chart.

A similar campaign in 2009 helped Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas No. 1. It resulted in the group selling 500,000 downloads of their single Killing In The Name, 50,000 more than McElderry received and seen the band hit the road again after huge support from fans.

Just when I thought the Foo Fighters couldn’t get any funnier – they release a new video to highlight the bands new tour dates.

The guys are known for not taking themselves seriously during videos and it has become one of their trade marks.

A link to ‘Hot Buns’ was posted on the bands Facebook page with no more details of what the video contained.