Monday, 5 April 2021

Dave Grohl explains how he wrote "Everlong"

During the March 2021 Oates Song Fest to raise awareness and funds for Feeding America, Dave Grohl did an acoustic performance of the best song he's ever written, which is objectively and universally acknowledged to be "Everlong." But before launching into the song, he talks a bit about how it came to be — the moment the riff first came to him, how his lack of formal guitar training counterintuitively helped him find the chord progression, and where he was in his personal life when he started to figure it out. — Read the rest