As well as being the frontman and leader of one of the world’s biggest rock bands, Dave Grohl has also been a very willing to jump back behind the kit to be guest drummer over the years. Some of the acts who have benefitted from his powerhouse grooves include (deep breath) Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, Cat Power and, umm, The Muppets. That’s a whole lot of Grohl. A collaboration with ex-Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher had long been mooted – Grohl and late Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins were always staunchly Team Liam in the battle of the Gallagher brothers – and in 2022 it finally came to fruition with the track Everything's Electric. Speaking to this writer that year, Grohl said it was all down to producer Greg Kurstin.
“I'm friends with Greg Kurstin, the producer - we made our last couple of albums with him,” Grohl said, referring to 2017’s Concrete And Gold and 2021’s Medicine At Midnight. “We made friends by chance at a restaurant years ago. I didn't even realise he was a producer, he was in one of my favourite bands called The Bird & The Bee and I recognised him from across the restaurant and I went up and say, 'Oh my God, you're from The Bird & The Bee, I love your band'. We became friends and then I realised 'Oh shit, this guy's one of the biggest producers in the world!'. And so I've watched him over the years, work on hit after hit after hit after hit.”
