Dave Grohl is such a phenomenally awesome person.

I liked him/the Foo Fighters well enough growing up. One of my earliest memories of MTV is the "Big Me" video.

Then I met my spouse who loves Nirvana like I love Coheed. He's taught me about Dave Grohl and my appreciation is always growing.

For one, he's a pillar of music history. Dave Grohl is grunge.

He's also incredibly respectful and grateful to be a part of that history -

Here's the trailer for a documentary called Sound City, about a recording studio where numerous hit records were recorded. After its closure, Dave buys some of its equipment and records on it with other artists who'd recorded at Sound City.
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(Oh, yeah, Dave directed and produced the documentary).

As a social science/library and information science person, as well as a music fan, this reverence for music history is just... dreamy.

Broke my thread. Whoops. https://twitter.com/ckillgannon/status/1325333774637420544

Also, he says 'fuck' a lot. I know this isn't exactly a deep or good reason, but it's absolutely endearing. I tried to find a video of it, but nothing good turned up. But seriously, he says it SO much.

His mom wrote a book about raising musicians (very relevant to my interests), and my very favorite musician mother, Mary Morello, has a chapter.
(Screenshot from Google Books)

I almost forgot about Sonic Highways! The Foo Fighters wrote an album on which each track is inspired by visiting 8 cities, including post-Katrina New Orleans. HBO made a documentary and again - the reverence for music history! For other humans! Just amazing.

This thread brought to you by, obviously, the Foo Fighters on SNL tonight. Their song choices - "Shame, Shame" and "Times Like These" - were (obvs) intentional and appropriate.

I love moves like this because I imagine it resonates with my husband - my white cishet husband.

I know it's not enough and it will never be enough and do we really need to spend more time thinking about white men, but I'm seeing a change in him over these last few weeks.

But this is about Dave Grohl.

I mean, look at him.