![]() The Oscars want a rock star to play acoustic guitar during their “In Memoriam” segment? Just tell Grohl where to put his stool. The Grammys need someone to shred while Deadmau5 fiddles with his laptop? Get Grohl on the phone. Grohl is to rock what Tom Hanks is to Hollywood: the head cheerleader, the de facto mayor, and the guy everyone wants to hang with. It’s by now well-established that Grohl is an avuncular Everydude, someone who “can make a whole stadium feel like he had a beer with every single one of them, and it’s not bullshit,” drummer Taylor Hawkins says. “Excuse me, sorry,” he mutters as he squeezes by, “I’m really sorry …” Grohl grabs Highway to Hell, then tries to worm his way to the I’s for Imagine Dragons. The only section we can reach is the A’s. Sure enough, the aisles inside are packed with Lana Del Rey fans. “I don’t know if you can get to the records.” “We actually have a Lana Del Rey in-store right now,” she says. “No,” Grohl says, “I just want to buy a record.” (He usually makes it through half a cigarette on the walk from the car to wherever he’s going.) At the front door, a manager-type woman says hi and asks if he’s here for the show. We pull up to the curb, and Grohl puts some money in the meter and lights a cigarette. Even for an eight-year-old, “you can’t go wrong with ‘Highway to Hell.’ ” (He already taught her Queen’s “We Will Rock You” there’s a YouTube video of her playing it at a Foos show, one of the more adorable instances of nepotism you’ll see.) Harper has requested an Imagine Dragons LP – the girls have been into vinyl since Grohl got them a Beatles box set to “make sure they had some sort of musical foundation before they went straight to fucking Iggy Azalea” – but he’s also going to “counter that with a little AC/DC,” he says. His middle daughter, Harper, 8, just started learning to play the drums, so he wants to buy her some records to play along to. Grohl merges onto the 101 and steers us toward Amoeba Records, the legendary Hollywood record store. “I mean, I’m an enthusiastic person, and I think he’s possibly doubled.” “He’s always high-energy,” says his friend Paul McCartney. It’s both unconscious and compulsive, like he’ll explode if he doesn’t get the rhythm out. Grohl drums constantly – clapping his hands, tapping his feet, smacking the meaty part of his thigh. We hop into Grohl’s Tesla, a $140,000 spaceship with Sonic Youth on the stereo, and he heads down the hill, drumming on the steering wheel the entire way. “Now it’s maybe the most unhip place to live in Los Angeles.” “And 80 or 90 years ago, it’s where a lot of Hollywood actors had weekend homes.” This very neighborhood used to belong to Clark Gable. “It used to be all orange groves around here,” Grohl says. Let’s go!Ĭasa Grohl is a two-acre spread on a resplendent Encino, California, hilltop, with sweeping views of the San Fernando Valley. “They have to move all the time or they die.” So instead, we’re going to cross a few errands off his to-do list.īut wait – “Do you have anything you need to do?” Grohl asks. But “drummers are like sharks,” as Foos guitarist Pat Smear says. So Grohl would be forgiven for taking just one day to chill. ![]() ![]() Next week, the Foos will hit the road in support of their ninth album, Concrete and Gold, flying first to Chicago, then Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe, then back home to throw their own festival, Cal Jam, on October 7th. His youngest, three-year-old Ophelia, is at pre-school, so now he has the day to himself. Grohl already dropped his two older daughters off at special-effects camp.
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