Understated as he may appear, superlatives have a habit of clinging to Dave Grohl. He is “The nicest man in rock”, reckon his cheerleaders, marvelling at his charm, enthusiasm and lack of pretension. “The hardest working man in rock”, claim others, as they examine an apparently endless list of projects that include his own highly successful band, the Foo Fighters, as well as recent guest spots with Queens of the Stone Age, the venerable goths Killing Joke and even David Bowie. “The best drummer in the world” is another regular appendage, dating from his tenure in Nirvana.
Grohl himself is not averse to a different kind of grandstanding. “I am the horniest person you have ever met,” he told one journalist last year. Courteous, productive,
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