Dave Grohl: Rock Music Not Dead
The Foos man says that the world feels like it did in 1991
In a new interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Grohl refuted suggestions that rock music was dying.
He said that in America, "rock and roll isn't as much in the forefront of the mainstream as it is the rest of the world.”
"The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music,” Grohl said. "You make that human connection with a song like ‘Let It Be’ or ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ or a song like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ or ‘Roxanne.’ They sound like people making real music.”
He went on to say that the musical climate reminds him of 1991, the year grunge broke.
"The late ’80s was full of over-produced pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of,” Grohl said. "They had no way of connecting to a hair metal band singing about strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard. Who can relate to that? Then you had a bunch of formulaic pop songstress stuff, and music was boring. And then a bunch of bands with dirty kids got on MTV and rock and roll became huge again. And I feel like that's about to happen.”