Nearly two decades after forming Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl continues to view the group as “a really simple band.” In a wide-ranging interview with Billboard.com, the Foos frontman said, “We [still] think we suck and we try really hard to make good records and we practice. We don’t feel like the biggest, best band in the world. We just feel like the same five dorks that were touring in a van 17 years ago.”
Asked about the current state of rock and roll, Grohl seemed optimistic, although he assessed that, in America, “rock and roll isn’t as much in the forefront of the mainstream as it is the rest of the world.”
“The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music,” Grohl said. “You make that human connection with a song like ‘Let It Be’ or ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ or a song like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ or ‘Roxanne.’ They sound like people making [real] music.”
Grohl went on to say that today’s musical climate reminds him of 1991, the year grunge broke.
“The late ’80s was full of over-produced pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of,” Grohl said. “They had no way of connecting to a hair metal band singing about strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard. Who can relate to that? Then you had a bunch of formulaic pop songstress [stuff], and music was boring. And then a bunch of bands with dirty kids got on MTV and rock and roll became huge again. And I feel like that's about to happen.”
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