1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 1: Christian Christian O'Connell's show podcast. 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 2: Over the last couple of weeks we've been blessed with 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: some amazing special guests, going back from Jerry Seinfeld to 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey and now you. Next twenty minutes, we've got 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: a great trap with Dave Groll from the Food Fighters 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 2: The Bat with a new single and soon to be 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 2: a new album and maybe hopefully next year. Who knows 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 2: the return of live music and bands coming from around 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: the world to play here in the capital of live 10 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: music in Australia. 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 3: And of course Nirvana as well. 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: He is he's earned the crown officially the nicest man 13 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: in rock and roll. We can do this in two parts. 14 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: This is part one of us chatting to Dave Grohl. 15 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: Enjoy Dave. 16 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: What's up ma'am? 17 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 3: Dave Grahl, Welcome to the show. 18 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. How are you today? 19 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 3: And listen? 20 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: I'm good and we've got lots of good stuff to 21 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 2: talk about. But please, can you just promise us all 22 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: in four years time you are going to run for office. 23 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: We need Dave Grohl behind the desk and behind a 24 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: drum kit. We need you running America. 25 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: I have to be honest, after watching what happened with Kanye, 26 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: there is absolutely no effing way I would ever endorse 27 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: a musician to be the president of the United States 28 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: of America. Absolutely no fing way. 29 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: You say that now fully is time you'll be running 30 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: on this. 31 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you know. The funny thing is, so I 32 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: grew up outside of Washington, DC, and my father was 33 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: a political speech writers a campaign manager. So when I 34 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: was young, it is in the seventies, I kind of 35 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: watched how a lot of this stuff works, you know, 36 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: and it used to be that people from opposing parties 37 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: could actually sit down with a bottle of whiskey and 38 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: have a talk and have a good time. And then, 39 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: you know, my father was a conservative Republican and my 40 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: mother is a liberal Democrat school teacher. So I've kind 41 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: of raised in the middle, and I do think in 42 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: a lot of ways that we can coexist. I really 43 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: do think that as a country, we should be able 44 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: to come together. Man, right now, it's really black and white. 45 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 3: It's crazy, Yeah, showy. 46 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: The son of a civilized society is how you total 47 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: to write each other's differences, right. 48 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: You'd imagine? Yeah, I mean, listen, this is one of 49 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: the great things about being in the Food Fighters is 50 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: when we step out on stage and there's sixty thousand 51 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: people there. I don't imagine that all sixty thousand of 52 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: those people agree on everything, but they do sing along 53 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: together when we play My Hero, and they do sing 54 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: along together when we play Learn to Fly or Pretender 55 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: or Ever Long or Best of You. When everyone can 56 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: come together and sing the same chorus, that gives me hope, Like, Okay, 57 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: so you might not come from the same place, or 58 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: share the same belief or the share the same religion 59 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: or political party, but when it comes to music, everyone 60 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: gets together and sings a song together. That means something 61 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: to me, you know, not enough that I would want 62 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: to become the president, but for those three hours I 63 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: can bring everyone together and do that. That means a lot. 64 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, But live music, don't you think dive as a 65 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: and a musician yourself, it's an act of communion. When 66 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 2: you're there, you're like you're all in it together. There's 67 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: a oneness. 68 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Long before I was ever a successful musician, 69 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: I was one of those kids in the crowd stage 70 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: diving and you know, arms around people I don't know, 71 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: singing along to a chorus together, So I understand what 72 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: it feels like to be connected to an audience and 73 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: to an artist. Human beings need to do that, and 74 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: we will again. Who knows when or how or where, 75 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: but it will happen because we have to. 76 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 3: So I was thinking about this next year. 77 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: You've got two anniversaries in your life, never mind hits 78 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: thirty and then the food fight is you're twenty five. 79 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: How do you feel about that sort of coming of 80 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: age of going from twenty something Dave Growl to fifty 81 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: something Dave grow. 82 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, man, I mean, I don't feel 83 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: that different than I did when I was twenty to 84 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: twenty three years old. I honestly don't. When I see 85 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: my face, I'm like, oh my god, you know, but 86 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: when but my heart and my soul, like I really 87 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: feel the same, not much as I don't feel that 88 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: much different. And I still play music for the same 89 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: reasons I did when I was seventeen eighteen years old, 90 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: just so I'd love to do it, you know, But 91 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: I do. I actually do love aging. I love I 92 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: mean when we go play a festival somewhere and I 93 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: walk through the backstage and there's all these new bands 94 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: that are like handsome and young and happy and fresh 95 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: and fit. And then I walk through and I just, 96 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: you know, I look like aqua lung, you know, like 97 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: I walk through like gray hair and I'm limping. You know. 98 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: I actually I actually take pride in that. I really do. 99 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: I take pride in just having survived, you know. 100 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, And now suddenly you're a dad. You still doing 101 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 2: the school run, Dave? 102 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'm you know I do. I ride bikes 103 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: to my kids to school. Like one of my kids 104 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: is go to school right down street from my So 105 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: everybody's pulling up in their Mercedes and their Tesla's and 106 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: they're like the cool cars, and I ride up on 107 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: a girls bicycle. But you know, those are it's those 108 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: quality moments with your children that mean the most. So yeah, 109 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: then lately with remote schooling, it's like they don't even 110 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: ask me for help. They know they're like, daddy's a dropout. 111 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: Don't have them to hope with high school, you know, 112 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: so they just you know, I have I poked my 113 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: head in there having gone. They're like, good, get out, 114 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: and I go, okay, then that's it all right. 115 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: Have you enjoyed our chat with Dave Girl. This morning 116 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 2: on The Christian O'Connell Show, we're back for part two next. 117 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 3: Christian Christian O'Connell Show podcast special guest this morning is 118 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 3: Dave Grol. 119 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 2: Let's go back to our final part of our interview 120 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: with the awesome Dave Growl. So, Dave, one thing to 121 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 2: interview musicians over the years, one thing that you all 122 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 2: have in common, despite different backgrounds. Somewhere between the age 123 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: of ten and thirteen, something happens to you where you 124 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: get lit up and you don't realize why. Time if 125 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 2: you just find a passional joy, but music starts to 126 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: mean something to you, and you from that moment your 127 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: whole life changes. Was that what happened to you? And 128 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: what band was it that sort of ignited that joy 129 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: that spark in you. 130 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: It's absolutely what happened to me, and it's absolutely what 131 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: happens to a lot of musicians because that little window 132 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: of time from the ages of ten to thirteen to fourteen, 133 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: that's where you're really becoming independent in a lot of ways, 134 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: and you're discovering your own identity. You no longer just 135 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: belong to your parents. You're becoming yourself. And so if 136 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: you connect with music, or if you pick up an instrument, 137 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: connect to an instrument, and then really fall in love 138 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: with music. With the practice of playing music or just 139 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: listening to music, that becomes a part of your identity 140 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: and the type of music you listen to, because it 141 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: starts to define who you are. For me, it was 142 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: around the age of ten years old. I got a 143 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: guitar and I got some Beatles records and I just 144 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: sat in front of my record player listening to Beatles 145 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: records over and over and over again as I played 146 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: along with this little song book that I had and 147 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: that you know, by eleven years old, I was like, 148 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: I'm a musician. I mean, that was like a little kid, 149 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: you know, But that it has a lot to do 150 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: with identity and learning discovering who you are in those 151 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: years and if you happen to have an instrument in 152 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: your lap, you know, odds are you're going to become 153 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: a musician, and because you're so passionate about it, you 154 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: will be a successful musician. That's kind of how it works. 155 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: That's amazing, and it's so must have been amazing for you. 156 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 2: Then years later, when you're jamming with McCartney in the 157 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: home city of the Beatles in Liverpool. 158 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: I mean, there have been some really huge, full circle 159 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: moments in my life, but I have to say that 160 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: one takes the cake to be able to just the 161 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: day that I met him for the first time. I 162 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: mean like it was like the matrix opened up and 163 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: the space time can genuine went backwards and I was like, 164 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: this is this a multiverse? Is this real? Or am 165 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: I dreaming? So yes, those and I never take any 166 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: of this for granted, but I never take those moments 167 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: for granted. Big big deal to me for sure. 168 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 2: Well, hopefully we can see you live here in Australia 169 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 2: next year. Can't wait to hear the new album. The 170 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: new single Shame Shame is out now. It's got to 171 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: be great to finally have your new music out there. 172 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 3: Day. 173 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: Music is made to be heard, man, whether it's in 174 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: your kitchen on a Saturday night or in the stadium 175 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: down the street. That's what we do it for. We 176 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: do it so that you can sing along, so you 177 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: can dance along, so you can hear it. So I'm 178 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: really glad we're able to give this one of the 179 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: world for sure. 180 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 2: Well, we need you back in the world right now, 181 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 2: and I'll see you in the White House in four 182 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: years time. 183 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll see you there. 184 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 3: Thank you very much, see you man. 185 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: Bye. 186 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast