Dave Grohl “My Hero” Live on the Howard Stern Show (1999) 

Howard: yeah but are hero’s ordinary? Are you saying that they all disappoint you? Dave: *no*

Rohring He kinda pulled that one outta nowhere😂

Kudos my hero, leaving all the mess

Yea we all watched the same video, and read every other comment

Massive twat

Kurt Cobain was weak and couldn’t hold Dave’s Guitar pick! And Layne Stayley my god Kurt couldn’t carry is microphone

Aaaa Sssdf More like “is this song about Kurt Cobain?!?”

with out kurt xobain he would be a fucking nobody. Get the BIG picture

@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 I don't know, "Everlong" or "learn to fly" seem worthwile to me. Would Cobain be remembered if he didn't burn out so fast? Dunno. I mean when Stayley died it wasn't so much of a thing because his way of comitting suicide was more subtle and he was long over his prime and that shit was way above cobains.

@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 I'm not even a fan of Foo Fighters, but you can't say this when Best of You exists...

For real bro. I just watched Studio 666 last night and I couldn't help thinking Grohl and Taylor were related. They must have felt like brothers. I swear I cried when I read the news.

had no idea.. bro RIP the world lost a hero

I came back to this video now for this exact reason, always loved how taylor is sitting there being happy listening to dave... my heart is truely broke today

My God this is beautiful, RIP Taylor 🙏

It’s fucked bro

The hell kind of person would want to shake that?

@@Dacijo i don’t think you really understand the problem, nirvana is over and it may be extremely sad but dave wants to be his own person and not just “the drummer of nirvana”.

@@hamburgerrat Of course I under stand, it's not a hard concept, but being in Nirvana has to be one of his crowning achievements.

@@hamburgerrat LOL hes Dave Grohl!!! One of the greatest musicians of all time. He was a member of Nirvana and then started my personal favorite band, Foo Fighters!!! HES A GOAT in my mind. Truly top 10 musicians of all time in my mind

Didn't have to shake it. He's just that good. He was meant to be. Even without Nirvana.

Omg

hahahahahaha...perfect!

Kurt Kurt first comment RIP

True

PZV Stynax lmfao.

Lol

Wasnt he more saying like this is what the song meant to me?

Howard Stern has always been a prick. Hardly surprising

@@matthewgeorgemortimer3050 He was just saying his interpretation

I get it though. I think anyone who writes doesn't really fully know what the songs are about. But the beauty of music is everyone has their take on it

🥺🥺🥺

No words...

Damn….hard to watch this now….

:(

This is really hard to watch, RIP Taylor

howard is a journalist, so he has to ask that. people thought that when the song came out. he had to give him a chance to discuss it

Love this song about Kurt.

LMAO

He had been giving 300 chances prior to this exact show in seperate interviews. Howard brought up Kurt everytime he could in this interview ​@@sabot4ge

Jews and Blacks...

Dave:-sigh- mm maybe

They were right

@Kanari Jones lol

no its not

Awe my heart

Uber Driver “My Hero” was released in 1998, 5 years after Kurt’s death. Idk when the song was actually written, but there is definitely some influence of it either directly or indirectly. You can’t tell me the drummer of the biggest band in the entire world, writes releases a song 5 years after the frontman/friend of that same band died and it had no influence whatsoever on how he wrote this song?

Uber Driver underrated comment

Ha ha haaa. Nice.

Haha! I bet it still continues today.

This comments about Kurt cobain right?

I always appreciated him in this video. Just Chill af. Letting his friend do his thing. Being supportive as af

@@zacharyjl24 and his glasses.

🙏🙏

what a cool cat - so sad

Who's taylor??? This Dave grohl

Nah this guitar player can also play drums

and sing !

Kurt also played the snare drum in highschool.

Can’t call him a musician?

sing and play base too

EdD5 lmao my grandpa is my grandpa, he is still my hero tho, one thing doesn’t make the other impossible

EdD5 I feel it was extremely rude to bring that up in the first place, and to keep talking about it even though you can see Dave is thinking “wtf man” is just fucking stupid! I hate the hosts. Also the black chick is fake as fuck

EdD5 or asking Paul McCartntey like 29+ times who broke up the Beatles 🤷‍♂️ I’m sure Paul and Ringo get sick of that question in every interview

So you're comparing Lennon and mccartney with grohl and cobain. Dickhead

until he wasn't

Aim for the bushes?

There wasn't even an awning in their direction!

lol

so who's taking their place?

Gold

😢

It's kind of funny because I watched this video the other day and had no idea who the guy sitting next to Dave was, so I looked it up and learned his name, and just now he died.

I thought of Taylor saying “YAhh” at the beginning and how it always made laugh..loved his onstage comedy and his relationship with Dave. 😢

Me too.

Same.

God Bless you! And thank you for sharing this story

When you log the positive effects gained by helping people cope with serious trauma as a highlight. then you have your priorities in order.

What a beautiful story, incredible to see how someone can impact you with the simplest of things.

Lamb N No

Cheers for that story.

Imagine all the talents right now who are sitting somewhere. Its amazing how thinking about it makes me feel hope, dreams and love. Despite we sometimes see the world as a dark place is no way near as that. I hope that I never lost this kind of thoughts. Thanks for your comment.

@@germangorchs9938 this is beautiful thank you

Nothing hidden. Hes probably the best drummer in a generation.

Kinda says a lot about Kurt Cobain though overshadowing him

You mean Ringo?

Good riddance

How's he a hero? Just wondering.

@@Gameboy-Unboxingsare you serious

@@Gameboy-Unboxings The countless amount of people hes inspired and gotten through tough times, including myself, makes him a hero.

Damn yes

Daniel Grossberg LOL

Lol, "There goes my Gyro!" Off topic, but anyway, In college we had this awesome Greek restaurant a block away from campus. I'd go out and party until 2 a.m. and stumble into the restaurant on my way home and pick up a couple Gyros with a side of fries, nothing ever tasted so good!

Daniel Grossberg HA! Ya got me wit that one!

You just gave Weird Al Yankovic another song

There goes my hero he's ordering

Mitchmeow unfortunately, this is all too true

haha truth

it took 17 seconds

Poor fuckin guy cant just be a musician

I gave you your 666th like.. Ykur welcome 😈

Altho Dave was very close to Kurt..He handles his passing very well

Brandon Ramirez And yet pretty much NONE of them were. The Foos of the 90s were about moving forward not looking back.

As far as I know, he never even mentioned anything about Kurt or anything, except in Learn to Fly where he said “burn out bright” which Kurt said one time in an interview.

Hence stupidity

Except for the ones about what a bitch Courtney Love is....

Thank god Robin chimed in or I would’ve been totally confused to the songs meaning. Saw Dave amd the FF open for RHCP a long time ago and he killed it. The Chili Peppers mailed it in unfortunately but did play my favorite song, I Could’ve Lied. All was forgiven lol, but Dave really earned my respect that night. My city was the last stop on a long tour and RHCP played like they couldn’t wait to get back to L.A. Dave never cheated the fans and I’ll always appreciate that.

No it isn't that makes no sense

It really does, RIP to one of my heroes🪦💔

Berkaholic? Why does it hit different? Just because a drummer died hahaha.

@@donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239 that’s the exact reason why Don Van Damn Johnson Long Fella 👍

Because he sacrificed his buddy or what ?

As when Dave pulled the trigger 😆

Maliken this was 20 years ago my dude

Heres to hoping

Maliken I hope he makes it one day

Maliken he’s been huge

He IS already huge

jajaaajajajaja

Miquel LOL

Miquel 😂

Miquel best description of all Foo Fighters songs.

There should be a t-shirt with this comment written on it..

He didn't want the vaccine. But they made him take it.

Jesus loves you. He will never leave you nor forsake you.

Of for fuck’s sake don’t be so dramatic

I love you Brad

Luv you bro

deneilbaker how miserable does your life have to be to belittle a complete stranger’s struggles and how they decide to cope with them.. pls lmk

Lol

Lololol

Facts

cool...

did you write this joke yourself ? what is it about ?

wow. what a easy life

get out of here with that shit@@AlexWheely-bx7pk

R. Alexander you can’t hurt Howard’s feelings

R. Alexander Daves the kindest guy on earth for sure!

That’s the thing about music. It evokes something different in everyone.

Respectful and polite

R. Alexander have you seen one photo of oasi ever or?

Really though how sad is it that even though he's reestablished himself and built a great career with Foo (not at all discrediting his stuff wìth Nirvana of course) and still people would rather tell him "Talk to us about your best friend who literally killed himself" than "Talk to us about your music and your story". Press people would rather exploit his trauma than look at what he's accomplished with his remarkable passion and hardwork ffs

Damn this is actually an original comment, good job! :)

@@demetrisloukas8586 the video is over 20 years old. It was a topic then. It certainly isn't now.

I was thinking he'd smash the guitar any minute

@@badsmel1741 howard literally made a new interview with foo fighters a few days ago and wouldn’t shut the fuck up about kurt lmao

Not 'just' a drummer

Just😆

Who’s that? Oh he’s just the drummer

He’s a better drummer than guitarist

Being a “drummer” is incredibly difficult. Much respect to grohl for the musicianship

Taylor always sits with his dirty shoes propped up on the sofa

@@Bdhacker101 cleaner than your swamp feet

RIP

@@byefelicia8429 I doubt it

​@@byefelicia8429 lmao

lol They had no clue what he was saying. The concept of non-celebrity people was so lost upon them. 🤣

the song is about whatever you think it’s about

Or whatever you want it to be about.

Space Camp I kinda agree and disagree. The nice thing about a truly great song is that we can find our own meaning in it. To grohl he has his meaning, but I feel different when I hear his song

Goddamm right

That's not how it works though... Music and art is meant for people with hearts, eyes, brains... that's the whole reason it is presented to people and not inanimate objects. Because the viewer converts it automatically to something to identify it. My hero can be anything you claim but when people remember hearing the devastating news of the last great rock singer dying tragically and then hearing a pretty song about "my hero" sung by one of Kurt's favorite people in the world... The world doesn't need any explanation and we mourn for Kurt and that void that has yet again opened up. Make it about the ice cream man... Sure... Whatever...

LOL

Ali M it honestly makes me mad like let Dave be Dave and if he wants to talk about Kurt he will.

It was lol

lmao

LMAO, nice one

What was he then

kek

Well is it?

Not "everyone", just stupid cunts (like Robin was in this clip).

Alex M To be fair, it was 1999.

Or is it?

I agree with ya, brotha!

Crazy how Dave Grohl dedicated his whole career to Syd Barrett after losing him. Oh shoot, wrong Dave.

No... It's....Nevermind

He was in nirvana

Thank you

Underrated comment

What about Kurt Cobain??

If you can even call it one lmao. I mean. It's just Howard convincing Dave that the song he wrote is about Kurt.

Dash good thing Dave Grohl doesn’t age!

Fucking frightening...

No shit. Thought the same thing. Crazy!

For real...i was 9 when this was played. 🤯

😥

Thanks for the love and care, are you a fan…where are you from?

He head banging

Hhajahahajajajajahahahahaha

@@danielarteta2476 HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHAHSHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHFUCKSASYAHAHAHYOU

Reading this and seeing Howard’s “knowing” smile had me grinning

also loved Taylor laughing at the hosts when they tried telling him what his song was about

Hes like what the fuck?

É, cara... De fato.

Yes a hero but not the hero. No disrespect to Taylor but he’s not Kurt. ❤

Burn!

After the way the interview was going you could tell he was done with the bullshit.

(Because he doesnt have the headphones on!)

This interview fucking hurts to watch

Sometimes Howard can be a douche.

ага

And echoes, silence and grace not to forget of course

100%

He admitted years later it was about Kurt.

this is the howard stren show your watching. the whole premise of the show is offensive humor

Dave G needs to colab with RCHP

Great profile pic

If i remember right, Dave was a fan of nirvana back when they were a really underground band.

Definitely. Myth is like a mourning of what was. Mourning being the tragedy of what was and how he came to be, then not.

Kurt was a fucking loser and Dave knows it

Cool...and seriously troubled at the end.

Wrong dave was alot younger than kurt and krist he looked up to kurt and kurt probably seen it watch all their interactions with each other in their interviews

As a big Nirvana fan and a guy who doesn't listen to the Foo Fighters, that was just plain disrespect from both of them.

Hugo Stiglitz Dave groholl was the brains behind nirvana. Kurt was a gunkie along for the ride.

Dave's face when she said that! I felt his pain.

5:19 “yeah that was special”

@@ninetoedlizard6650 As a relative Nirvana fan and a big Foo Fighters fan, how in the blue fuck did Dave Grohl show disrespect? Please tell me........

Yea but not gonna lie the reverb was nice on that performance

You gained a sub and a friend

I don’t think he did. Audio shifts at the beginning of the song, they probs remixed it

lis didnt he say echo/delay?

It's an acoustic guitar going in to two and possibly three mics.

Joy Sealand r u gay

@@xeslaosu wtf man

kitcase fuck u

SearingBoar he’s unsympathetic but it is a legit question ig probably just an idiot tho

Bro, are you GAY!?

yeaah exacly I was like wtf?!? he singing higher is just perfect

I think it has to do with the fact that hes playing an acoustic version

He did Everlong like that

adrian hernandez that’s exactly it. He does the same on the acoustic version of Everlong. ☺️👍

Cos when he sits while sing low pitch voice is easier than high pitch

Brian Keane glad you made it through that stage in your life 🙌🏻 hope everything’s going well for you

You are a strong man. Kudos, my hero.

Brian Keane dude that’s really inspiring you a hell of a strong man

Brian Keane Wow, what a sad story. Much love to you.

hey man, thank you for this and thank you for your strength. I love you.

True fucking legend.

wow, another layne staley martyr trying to insert his name into nothing that concerns him. get a life u sad fuck

I love that.

Hey Serj make a new fucking album

Toxicity Mesmerize Hipnatize

@@ErrolCe and release it.

Pablo Cabo the fucking head nodding is proceless😂

Lmao

underrated comment that shit killed me lmaoooo

Lmao that face got me

His face totally says it😂😂

the irony of the Taylor guitar as well...

Like how all art should be

Michael Stone I love reading comments like these! Well said. Bravo!

Michael Stone I think the descriptive "true" is unnecessary.

Yes so true. The meaning is in the interpretation of the audience.

Michael Stone i know everyone in the chat complaining that they’re giving their own interpretation and i’m like... he WANTS people to interpret it differently

More than a couple of years ago. Howard's 65 now, so it was 5 years ago.

"Dave wrote this song about my dad. That's what it's about."

And of course...Kurt Cobain (sarcasm)

After having the lead of a band tell you your wrong and it's not about Kurt but everyday heros(parents, teachers, firefighters, doctor, your cabby, whoever really) you can see how he would inteosepct that to his everyday life heroes, ie:his parents, staff, family/wife, etc

Fuck that piece of shit Stern

Tremonti

So true

Who's the founder of megadeth? His fallout with Metallica was big and he is known for megadeth.

Only one that comes to mind to me is maybe Lennon with the Beatles or maybe Fogerty with CCR. Nobody however has came from a band as massive as Nirvana and then went on to create a staying power band as big as Foo Fighters that has remained relevant for almost 25 years now and counting. Nothing absolutely short of amazing!

Try the band members of New Order who were once part of Joy Division after their singer committed suicide

I watched an interview about his guitar playing....he explained his "method" SOOO well, (I am not a drummer but I still understood this)….he stated that he uses the low e,a, d strings as like the "bass type drums" and the high e, b and g strings as like symbols...so in his mind he said he creates rhythms by thinking of a drum pattern and using the strings the same way he would a drumset. I think that's a fantastic way of looking at a guitar...….again I don't play drums, but even I can actually relate!!!! Any drummers out there that can relate?

no I wouldn't say his giutar playing is anything mind-blowing, I think the songwriting is what makes him good and unique.

Underated? Doubtful. He's one of the most celebrated!

Richard Bonney he’s a songwriter, not a shredder. Songwriters are a lot more interesting

just to reinforce this point everyone should listen to stranger things have happened... easily my favorite acoustic song

Agreed

Check out the version on the skin and bones album.

oldfredbear Thanks, mate!

YUP!

This was made in 1999 just buy the cd