Young love is usually a lovely but fleeting factor, and that was definitely the case for Nirvana/Foo Fighters icon Dave Grohl and former Hole/The Smashing Pumpkins bassist/vocalist Melissa Auf der Maur across the flip of the century. In a latest chat with Sirius XM Radio’s Fierce: Women In Music, she mirrored on their temporary romance and bittersweet breakup.
Auf der Maur was truly the primary visitor on the present’s latest season, and upon being requested in regards to the relationship by host Lori Majewski, she revealed that she and Grohl “brought in the 21st century together and . . . were a very compatible match.”
Indeed, they dated from 1999 to 2001 – so, across the time of Hole’s Celebrity Skin and Foo Fighters’ There Is Nothing Left to Lose – and had been “both obsessed, committed to rock music, . . . [and] to the power of music.”
She continued [via Sirius XM]:
Um, and each very non-drug addict, um, technically comfortable, extremely functioning folks. So, we had been very comparable and in some ways, I feel our roles in Hole and Nirvana [are] what subconsciously pushed us collectively . . . but it surely was like holding onto one another for expensive gentle of discovering the sunshine, the flame within the type of scary panorama, which had been these two bands. And I used to be simply leaving Hole [and] coming into this type of like farewell finale tour with the Pumpkins.
Dave was simply rising up with the Foo Fighters and we had this stunning appropriate couple of years the place, I imply, we had been head over heels in love, however we additionally actually acknowledged the turning level we had been each at as 90s musicians that had been very shut in age, that began very younger in our small cool hometowns in Montreal and DX. We had a really comparable group that we got here from, from our hometowns that we had been, you understand, integrity primarily based, impartial, you understand, we weren’t like ravenous to be rock stars. We got here from very integrity-based music scenes in our cool cities.
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Fortunately, she added, “it was all love” after they “broke up,” explaining: “It was purely like, ‘I love you and I want you to go do what you wanna do and you love me and you want me to go do.’ And it was [that] simple and very clear.”
What cemented their separation, she confessed, is that she “wanted to retreat from the ginormous corporate hell that our music scene had become, and he was not finished yet and had some more proving or ambitions or business to do.”
Finally, she reminisced:
I keep in mind simply saying, “Don’t you wanna just like settle down into a cool art scene in DC or Montreal and just like be humorous?’”His fireplace and his ambition was not. And we each, uh, right here we’re 20 years later, we have got what we wished. He obtained to be the largest rockstar on the earth. And I obtained to be a small-town artwork manufacturing unit hero.
You can hearken to the complete interview right here.
As famous by People, Auf der Maur finally married filmmaker Tony Stone, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter named River. The couple additionally co-founded Basilica Hudson, a “nonprofit multidisciplinary art center located in Hudson, NY,” in 2010.
As for Grohl, he married TV producer Jordyn Blum, with whom he has three youngsters: Violet (17), Harper (14) and Ophelia (8). Violet even supplied vocals for “Show Me How,” the third single from Foo Fighters’ newest LP, But Here We Are, which got here out on June 2, 2023.
If you haven’t but, take a look at some fan reactions to But Here We Are, in addition to what we love most about it. You may also see what quite a few revered musicians have stated about Grohl over time, and why some followers are already upset with new drummer Josh Freese.
Finally, make sure to take a look at Foo Fighters on tour. You can see their upcoming tour dates right here and seize tickets right here.
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