Dave Grohl is the most underrated musician of all time

You mean Pearl Jam?

They're better musicians than Nirvana as well, its just Eddie's voice thats a hit or miss for some people (black is my favorite song by Pearl Jam), so is Alice in Chains.

 

Never liked Queens of the Stone age

 

Must be in one of those special boxed sets... going to keep looking until I find it. Thank you so much!!!

 

Grohl was on fire back then.

 

Not trying to change the subject, but if you want an unknown stud drummer, check out El Estepario Siberiano on YouTube. Dude is a robot.

 

this guy drums.

 

no, i meant nirvana. they wrote jeremy. it was a song about the cool kid at their high school in seattle whom kurt looked up to.

pearl jam are good though and i agree that they were better musicians. billy corgans guitar playing on rusty cage is peak-grunge shredding.

 

Fun read you might appreciate:

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/tenacious-d-the-story-of-tribute-and-meaning

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Wat? Is any of this true? Rusty Cage is a Soundgarden song. Jeremy was written by Eddie Vedder. Smashing Pumpkins were not a grunge band.

 

110% truth

 

its all true. nirvana wrote jeremy, but gave it to pearl jam as they didnt think it fit with their sound. billy corgan played on rusty cage. kim thayil had quit the band during the recording sessions and billy was in seattle at the time as he was dating courtney love so he eneded up playing on it.

agree that the pumpkins werent grunge though.

 

CaptainXero will get this one, I bet

 

Grohl is a cool guy, and I love Nevermind, it’s truly one of my favorite albums. I absolutely appreciate how he’ll unabashedly jam in public with guys like Rick Springfield, Paul Stanley, even Bobby Blotzer. But had he not been in Nirvana, no one would have ever heard of Foo Fighters. They’re possibly the most overrated rock band of all time, and it may not be close.

 

Just for drummers that are more underrated than Grohl, off the top of my head I've got Michael Shrieve, Clyde Stubblefield, Hal Blaine, Bernard Purdie, and a bunch of Jazz drummers.

 

Shrieve pretty much stole the show at Woodstock. Best drum performance of the entire festival. May or may not have been tripping on acid at the time. To this day, that's what he's known for, rightly so.

Stubblefield was James Brown's (most famous) drummer. Pretty much invented funk drumming. Nowadays he's known for being the most sampled drummer of all time. Absolute funk master.

Purdie is known for the "Purdie Shuffle." If you actually have a famous groove named after you.....I mean...that pretty much tells you all you need to know.

 

Well, one of those things was true.

 

Truth!

Not a drummer, so I'm not familiar with the "Purdie Shuffle". Educate us.

 

Soooo overrated. They sound like every other early 2000s band

 

i like the first two FF records. color and the shape is pretty pretty good. dont care for anything else they have done.

not a FF fan, but grohls career has been pretty incredible. he was financially set for life at 25 and when nirvana ended he could have dropped off, but instead did that first FF record which blew up and he ran with it. its pretty unheard of to see a sideman for a huge band do what he did.

youre right that nobody would have ever heard of FF w/out nirvana. grohl certainly took that opportunity and made the most out of it. shows how driven he is and his work-ethic. even as a non-FF fan i gotta tip my hat to him for having the career he did.