Dave Grohl is arguably the most recognizable rocker in the industry having fronted 10 very successful Foo Fighters studio albums to the tune of millions of records sold. Prior to that, he famously drummed for Nirvana, and in total he has more than a dozen Grammys sitting on the shelf and occupies two spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. What’s even more remarkable is that Grohl has accomplished all of it while being functionally deaf for nearly two decades. Grohl opened up about his difficult and challenging health issue in a recent interview with Howard Stern.
“If you were sitting next to me right here at dinner, I wouldn’t understand a f*cking word you were saying to me the whole f*cking time,” he said. “There’s no way. In a crowded restaurant — that’s the worst. The worst thing about this pandemic sh*t is people wearing masks. I’ve been reading lips for, like, 20 years… I’m a rock musician. I’m f*cking deaf. I can’t hear what you’re saying. When we go in to make a record, and we’re mixing an album, I can hear the slightest little things. My ears are still tuned in to certain frequencies, and if I hear something out of tune or a cymbal that’s not bright enough or something like that. In the mix, I can f*cking hear the minutiae of everything we had done to that song.”
Grohl also said he doesn’t like wearing in-ear monitors or any other sort of hearing-saving device. “The problem that I have with [ear monitors] is it removes you from the natural atmosphere sound. I wanna hear the audience in front of me… It messes with your spatial understanding of where you are onstage.” The Foo Fighters’ most recent record, “Medicine at Midnight,” was released in Feb. 2021. The band is also gearing up for the release of their new horror comedy, “Studio 666,” on Feb. 25. The “Evil-Dead” style film is set for a theatrical release in more than 2,000 theaters on Feb. 25. The film also includes a star-studded cast featuring Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega and Jeff Garlin.
The group released a new red band trailer for the movie on Feb. 18 which showcases the film’s gore. “The premise of the movie is that we move into this house, I have writer’s block, I’m totally uninspired, I can’t come up with anything, and I wind up finding this creepy basement,” Grohl told Stern. “And I go into the basement, I find this tape by a band from 25 years ago that recorded there. And there’s this song that, if recorded and completed, the f*cking demon in the house is unleashed, and then, whatever, all hell breaks loose.”
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