Dave Grohl grew up in a Washington D.C. suburb called Springfield, Virginia. He learned to play drums on pillows in his room. Using a chair as the hi-hat, a pillow on the floor as a snare drum and the bed as the toms, he played along to bands like Minor Threat and Bad Brains. He only had one pair of sticks and they were a heavy pair of marching model sticks. He listened to the bands with an old record player that his school teacher mother brought home from school. Dave would play until the windows in his bedroom were dripping with condensation from the sweat in the room.

Dave played in many groups in high school. Some were: Freak Baby, Mission Impossible and Dain Bramage. He later got the chance to join the group Scream, one of his most favorite bands. Dave dropped out of school at the age of 17 to tour full time. He stayed with Scream until they broke up in 1990. While in L.A., the bassist from Scream bailed on the band, leaving Dave stranded. He called Buzz Osborne of the Melvins. Buzz payed for Dave's move to Seattle in September of 1990 where he joined a band called Nirvana.

He had been writing songs but soon realized that there wasn't much room for his songs in this new band. Dave had replaced drummer Chad Channing in the band. Dave remained with Nirvana until the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain.

Sad and depressed, Dave Grohl didn't think he could go on in music. After a phone call from another Seattle band that was the victim of the same occurance, Dave decided to record all his songs. In a space of six days, he recorded all the instruments, except one guitar solo by friend Greg Dulli, starting from the drums up. After he recorded these songs, he released the album and called his new creation the Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters have experienced lots of success and continue to go strong now with their new album "The Colour and the Shape".