It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

Grohl spent the initial months with Nirvana traveling to various major labels as the band shopped for a deal eventually signing with DGC Records. At the age of twelve Grohl began learning to play guitar.

Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot as well as being involved with Queens of the Stone Age numerous times throughout the past decade. David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14 1969) is an American rock musician multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film director who is the lead vocalist guitarist primary songwriter and founder of the Foo Fighters.