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This is a Call

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by Paul Brannigan


  Live at Reading (Geffen, 2009): ‘Breed’ / ‘Drain You’ / ‘Aneurysm’ / ‘School’ / ‘Sliver’ / ‘In Bloom’ / ‘Come as You Are’ / ‘Lithium’ / ‘About a Girl’ / ‘Tourette’s’ / ‘Polly’ / ‘Lounge Act’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ / ‘On a Plain’ / ‘All Apologies’ / ‘Blew’ / ‘Dumb’ / ‘Stay Away’ / ‘Spank Thru’ / ‘The Money Will Roll Right In’ / ‘D-7 / ‘Territorial Pissings’

  Late!

  Pocketwatch (Simple Machines, 1993): ‘Pokey the Little Puppy’ / ‘Petrol CB’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Throwing Needles’ / ‘Just Another Story About Skeeter Thompson’ / ‘Color Pictures of a Marigold’ / ‘Hell’s Garden’ / ‘Winnebago’ / ‘Bruce’ / ‘Milk’

  Foo Fighters

  Foo Fighters (Roswell/Capitol, 1995): ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘I’ll Stick Around’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Alone + Easy Target’ / ‘Good Grief ’ / ‘Floaty’ / ‘Weenie Beenie’ / ‘Oh, George’ / ‘For All the Cows’ / ‘X-Static’ / ‘Wattershed’ / ‘Exhausted’

  The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Doll’ / ‘Monkey Wrench’ / ‘Hey, Johnny Park’ / ‘My Poor Brain’ / ‘Wind Up’ / ‘Up in Arms’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘See You’ / ‘Enough Space’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘New Way Home’

  There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Roswell/RCA, 1999): ‘Stacked Actors’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Gimme Stitches’ / ‘Generator’ / ‘Aurora’ / ‘Live-In Skin’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Headwires’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’ / ‘M.I.A.’

  One by One (Roswell/RCA, 2002): ‘All My Life’ / ‘Low’ / ‘Have It All’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Disenchanted Lullaby’ / ‘Tired of You’ / ‘Halo’ / ‘Lonely as You’ / ‘Overdrive’ / ‘Burn Away’ / ‘Come Back’

  InYour Honor (Roswell/RCA, 2005) : ‘In Your Honor’ / ‘No Way Back’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘DOA’ / ‘Hell’ / ‘The Last Song’ / ‘Free Me’ / ‘Resolve’ / ‘The Deepest Blues Are Black’ / ‘End Over End’ / ‘The Sign’ / ‘Still’ / ‘What If I Do?’ / ‘Miracle’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘On the Mend’ / ‘Virginia Moon’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Razor’

  Skin and Bones (Roswell/RCA, 2006): ‘Razor’ / ‘Over and Out’ / ‘Walking After You’ / ‘Marigold’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Next Year’ / ‘Another Round’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Cold Day in the Sun’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘February Stars’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Friend of a Friend’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘Ain’t It the Life’

  Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Roswell/RCA, 2007): ‘The Pretender’ / ‘Let It Die’ / ‘Erase/Replace’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘Come Alive’ / ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’ / ‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)’ / ‘Summer’s End’ / ‘Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners’ / ‘Statues’ / ‘But, Honestly’ / ‘Home’

  Greatest Hits (Roswell/RCA, 2009) ‘All My Life’ / ‘Best of You’ / ‘Everlong’ / ‘The Pretender’ / ‘My Hero’ / ‘Learn to Fly’ / ‘Times Like These’ / ‘Money Wrench’ / ‘Big Me’ / ‘Breakout’ / ‘Long Road to Ruin’ / ‘This Is a Call’ / ‘Skin and Bones’ / ‘Wheels’ / ‘Word Forward’ / ‘Everlong’ (acoustic)

  Wasting Light (Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Bridge Burning’ / ‘Rope’ / ‘Dear Rosemary’ / ‘White Limo’ / ‘Arlandria’ / ‘These Days’ / ‘Back and Forth’ / ‘A Matter of Time’ / ‘Miss the Misery’ / ‘I Should Have Known’ / ‘Walk’

  Medium Rare (Roswell/RCA, 2011): ‘Band on the Run’ / ‘I Feel Fine’ / ‘Life of Illusion’ / ‘Young Man Blues’ / ‘Bad Reputation’ / ‘Down in the Park’/ ‘Baker Street’ / ‘Danny Says’ / ‘Have a Cigar’ / ‘Never Talking to You Again’ / ‘Gas Chamber’ / ‘This Will Be Our Year’

  Harlingtox A.D.

  Harlingtox Angel Divine (Laundry Room, 1996): ‘Treason Daddy Brother in Crime Real Patriots Type Stuff ’ / ‘Orbiting Prisons in Space’ / ‘Recycled Children Never to Be Grown’ / ‘Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree’ / ‘Open Straightedge Arms’

  David Grohl

  Touch: Music from the Motion Picture (Roswell/Capitol, 1997): ‘Bill Hill Theme’ / ‘August Murray Theme’ / ‘How Do You Do’ / ‘Richie Baker’s Miracle’ / ‘Making Popcorn’ / ‘Outrage’ / ‘Saints in Love’ / ‘Spinning Newspapers’ / ‘Remission My Ass’ / ‘Scene 6’ / ‘This Loving Thing (Lynn’s Song)’ / ‘Final Miracle’ / ‘Touch’

  Probot

  Probot (Southern Lord/Roswell, 2004): ‘Centuries of Sin’ / ‘Red War’ / ‘Shake Your Blood’ / ‘Access Babylon’ / ‘Silent Spring’ / ‘Ice Cold Man’ / ‘The Emerald Law’ / ‘Big Sky’ / ‘Dictatosaurus’ / ‘My Tortured Soul’ / ‘Sweet Dreams’ / ‘I Am the Warlock’ (hidden track)

  Them Crooked Vultures

  Them Crooked Vultures (Columbia, 2009): ‘No One Loves Me & Neither Do You’ / ‘Mind Eraser, No Chaser’ / ‘New Fang’ / ‘Dead End Friends’ / ‘Elephants’ / ‘Scumbag Blues’ / ‘Bandoliers’ / ‘Reptiles’ / ‘Interludes with Ludes’ / ‘Warsaw or the First Breath You Take’ / ‘Caligulove’ / ‘Gunman’ / ‘Spinning in Daffodils’

  Dave Grohl also appears on the following albums and EPs:

  Buzz Osbourne, King Buzzo (Boner/Tupelo, 1992)

  Backbeat Band, Backbeat: Songs from the Original Motion Picture (Virgin, 1994)

  Mike Watt, Ball-Hog or Tugboat? (Columbia, 1995)

  The Stinky Puffs, A Little Tiny Smelly Bit Of … (Elemental, 1995)

  Puff Daddy, Been Around the World (Arista, 1997)

  Earthlings?, Earthlings? (Man’s Ruin, 1998)

  Reeves Gabrels, Ulysses (Della Notte) (E-Magine, 2000)

  Earthlings, Human Beans (Man’s Ruin, 2000)

  Tenacious D, Tenacious D (Epic, 2001)

  Tony Iommi, Iommi (Divine/Priority, 2001)

  David Bowie, Heathen (ISO/Columbia, 2002)

  Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope, 2002)

  Cat Power, You Are Free (Matador, 2003)

  Killing Joke, Killing Joke (Zuma, 2003)

  The Bangles, Doll Revolution (E1 Music, 2003)

  Garbage, Bleed Like Me (Geffen, 2005)

  Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth (Nothing/Interscope, 2005)

  Pete Yorn, Nightcrawler (Columbia, 2006)

  Tenacious D, The Pick of Destiny (Epic, 2006)

  Juliette and The Licks, Four on the Floor (The Militia Group, 2006)

  Jackson United, Harmony and Dissidence (Deck Cheese, 2008)

  Various Artists, We WishYou a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging NewYear (Armoury, 2008)

  The Prodigy, Invaders Must Die (Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl, 2009)

  Slash, Slash (Roadrunner, 2010)

  Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, Red Light Fever (Shanabelle/RCA, 2010)

  Mondo Generator, Dog Food (Impedance, 2010)

  Index

  DG indicates Dave Grohl.

  Abba

  AC/DC

  Aerosmith

  Age of Consent

  Aizlewood, John

  Albini, Steve

  Alexander, Phil

  Alice in Chains

  Alive & Kicking (compilation)

  alternative rock

  American hardcore movement

  American Idol

  Anderson, Dawn

  Anderson, Greg

  Angry Samoans

  Arm, Mark

  Articles of Faith

  Auf der Maur, Melissa

  Azerrad, Michael

  Back and Forth (documentary)

  Backbeat Band

  Bad Brains

  Bailey, Ernie

  Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia

  Baker, Brian

  Ball-Hog or Tugboat? (Watt)

  Bangles, The

  Bayer, Samuel

  Beach Boys, The

  Beatles, The

  Beefeater

  Bergamo, Al

  Berliner, Jill

  Bernstein, Nils

/>   B-52s

  Biafra, Jello

  Big Black

  Bikini Kill

  Billboard

  Biscuits, Chuck

  Black, Jack

  Black Flag

  Black Market Baby

  Black Sabbath

  Blender

  Blurt

  Blush, Steve

  Bon Jovi, Jon

  Bondi, Vic 50

  Bonham, Jason

  Bonham, John

  Borzillo, Carrie

  Boucher, Eric

  Bowie, David

  Bradford, Sherry

  Bradford, Tracey

  Brecht, Kurt

  Brookes, Anton

  Broomfield, Nick

  Buck, Peter

  Burckhard, Aaron

  Bush, George W.

  Butthole Surfers

  Buzzcocks

  Cafritz, Julia

  Cameron, Keith

  Carlson, Dylan

  Cassidy, Spike

  Cathedral

  Cavalera, Max

  CBGBs

  Celtic Frost

  Channing, Chad

  Chick, Stevie

  Christgau, Robert

  Christy, Nick

  Chum

  Circle Jerks

  Clarke, Kory

  Clash, The

  Classic Rock

  Clinch, Danny

  Cobain, Frances Bean

  Cobain, Kurt

  birth and childhood

  Bleach, recording of

  coma

  connection with audience

  death

  DG and

  drug use

  first bands

  first recordings

  In Utero and

  Love and see Love, Courtney

  major labels, attitude towards

  musical tastes

  myth making

  myth of

  Nevermind, promotional campaign

  Nevermind, recording of

  Novoselic, first meets

  parents’ divorce and

  plots career

  publishing agreement, redraws

  punk rock, introduction to

  ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video and

  touring

  COC

  Columbia Records

  Cook, Paul

  Copeland, E.L.

  Copeland, Stuart

  Corbijn, Anton

  Corgan, Billy

  Cornell, Chris

  Corrosion of Conformity

  Costello, Elvis

  Cows

  Cramps, The

  Crash, Darby

  Crawford, Scott

  Cronos

  Cross, Charles R.

  Crover, Dale

  Cubby Bear (Chicago club)

  Dag Nasty

  Dain Bramage

  Dalle, Brody

  Damned, The

  Danzig

  David Grohl Alley, Warren, Ohio

  Dead Boys

  Dead Kennedys

  Dean, Mike

  Deep Purple

  Def Jam

  Deftones

  Dinosaur Jr

  Discharge

  Dischord

  D.O.A.

  Donaldson, Chip

  Dorrian, Lee

  Doughty, Michael

  Doyle, Tad

  D.R.I.

  Dukowski, Chuck

  Dulli, Greg

  Durango, Santiago

  Durkee, Bob

  Dylan, Bob

  Earl, Mari

  Edgar Winter Group

  11th Hour

  Embrace

  Endino, Jack

  Everman, Jason

  Factory Records

  Fair, Jad

  Faith

  Fang

  Farrell, Boyd

  Farrell, Ray

  Fartblossom Records

  Fecal Matter

  Fennelly, Colin

  Finch, Jennifer

  Fitz of Depression

  Flipper

  Flipside

  Fluid

  Foege, Alec

  Foo Fighters:

  albums:

  The Colour and the Shape

  Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

  Foo Fighters

  Greatest Hits

  In Your Honor

  One by One

  Skin and Bones

  There Is Nothing Left to Lose

  Wasting Light

  awards

  birth of

  DG as frontman

  first live appearances

  first press release

  first tour

  gigs/touring

  logo

  Million Dollar Demos

  sales

  songs:

  ‘Ain’t It the Life’

  ‘All My Life’

  ‘Alone + Easy Target’

  ‘Aurora’

  ‘Best of You’

  ‘Big Me’

  ‘Breakout’

  ‘Burn Away’

  ‘Butterflies’

  ‘Cold Day in the Sun’

  ‘Come Back’

  ‘Dear Rosemary’

  ‘Disenchanted Lullaby’

  ‘DOA’

  ‘Enough Space’

  ‘Everlong’

  ‘Exhausted’

  ‘Floaty’

  ‘For All the Cows’

  ‘Friend of a Friend’

  ‘Full Mount’

  ‘Have It All’

  ‘Home’

  ‘I Should Have Known’

  ‘I’ll Stick Around’

  ‘Knucklehead’

  ‘The Last Song’

  ‘Learn to Fly’

  ‘Lonely as You’

  ‘Long Road to Ruin’

  ‘Low’

  ‘M.I.A.’

  ‘Make a Bet’

  ‘Miracle’

  ‘Miss the Misery’

  ‘Monkey Wrench’

  ‘Mountain ofYou’

  ‘My Hero’

  ‘New Way Home’

  ‘No Way Back’

  ‘Oh, George’

  ‘On the Mend’

  ‘Overdrive’

  ‘Podunk’

  ‘The Pretender”

  ‘Release’

  ‘Rope’

  ‘Spooky Tune’

  ‘Stacked Actors’

  ‘Tears for Beers’

  ‘These Days’

  ‘This Is a Call’

  ‘Times Like These’

  ‘Tired of You’

  ‘Tom Petty’

  ‘Walk’

  ‘Walking After You’

  ‘Watershed’

  ‘Wheels’

  ‘White Limo’

  ‘Winnebago’

  ‘Word Forward’

  ‘X-Static’

  Foster, Dave

  4AD

  Four Horsemen, The

  Freak Baby

  Fricke, David

  Friedman, Glen E.

  Fugazi

  Gaar, Gillian G.

  Garbage

  Garfield, Henry see Henry Rollins

  GBH

  Geffen Records

  Germs,The

  Gersh, Gary

  Ginn, Greg

  Go Team, The

  Goatsnake

  Gold Mountain

  Goldberg, Danny

  Goldberg, Michael

  Goldsmith, William

  Goodacre, Martyn

  Gordon, Kim

  Gore, Al

  Gossard, Stone

  Graham, Bill

  Grammy Awards

  Gray Matter

  Green Day

  Green River

  Greene, Elizabeth

  Groff, Skip

  Grohl, Dave:

  albums see under individual band name

  bands see under individual band or project name

  charisma

  childhood

  collaborations see also under individual artist name
/>   depression and anxiety

  discography

  divorce

  drug taking

  family background

  finances

  first band

  first gigs/collaborations, post-Nirvana

  first songs post-Nirvana

  40th birthday

  girlfriends

  guitar playing

  hyperactivity

  Los Angeles and

  marriages

  musical tastes

  ‘Nicest Man in Rock’

  parents’ divorce and

  personality

  politics

  punk rock and

  solo record (Pocketwatch)

  songwriting see under individual band or project name

  soundtrack, writes (Touch)

  switches to drums

  tattoos

  therapy

  see also see Dain Bamage; Foo Fighters; Freak Baby; Harlingtox A.D.; Late!; Mission Impossible; Nirvana; Probot; Queens of the Stone Age; Scream; Them Crooked Vultures; Touch

  Grohl, Harper Willow (daughter)

  Grohl, James (father)

  Grohl, Jordyn (wife)

  Grohl, Lisa (sister)

  Grohl, Violet Maye (daughter)

  Grohl, Virginia (mother)

  Grohol, John (great-grandfather)

  grunge revolution

  Guns N’ Roses

  Gwar

  Habibion, Sohrab

  Haden, Petra

  Hagerty, Neil

  Half Japanese

  Hampton, Mike

  Hanna, Kathleen

  Happy Flowers

  Harlingtox Angel Divine

  Hawkins, Taylor

  Heartbreakers, The

  Herrema, Jennifer

  Hester, Drew

  Hetfield, James

  HG Hancock Band

  Himelfarb, Gary

  Hinkle, Larry

  Hoerner, Dan

  Hokanson, Greg

  Hole

  Homme, Josh

  Houghton, Mick

  House, Daniel

  Hovercraft

  Hudson, Earl

  Hudson, Paul

  Hüsker Dü

  Hyde Park

  Iggy Pop

  Inner Ear

  Jaffee, Rami

  Jenifer, Darryl

  Jerry A

  Jesus Lizard

  Johannes, Alain

  Johnson, Calvin

  Johnson, Lisa

  Jones, Barrett

  Jones, John Paul

 

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