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Dave Grohl is a bit like God
This year's Shockwaves NME Shockwaves Awards are going to give their Shockwaves Shockwaves Godlike Genius Award to Dave Grohl, it was announced about an hour ago.
Dave is pleased:
Dave Grohl says: “It's really flattering and really good company to be in. It's a nice thing to be acknowledge for doing something that you love to do, but in truth I don't consider it a body of work because I don't consider it work, I just consider it this incredible luxury that I get to play music and travel the world and feed my kids. It's pretty great. Awards and lists can get silly sometimes but I'm very appreciative of this. It's really cool to be called a godlike genius!”Yes, nothing silly about an award sponsored by hairgrease.
Grohl always seems like a thoroughly nice bloke, and giving him a prize seems fair enough.
Not sure that 'genius' sits particularly comfortably, though. Given how he denied the link between HIV and AIDS, raising money for a group that pushed that line, muddled-headed at best might be a more apt title.
NME editor Krissi Murison says: “An NME Godlike Genius is a very rare thing. To qualify, an artist must not only be a musical visionary, have an unparalleled legacy and a decade-spanning career, but also still be meaningful to young bands and music fans today. Whether it’s headlining the world's greatest festivals, staging his own mega-gigs, releasing a series of hugely successful albums, collaborating with everyone from The Prodigy to Paul McCartney or still surprising fans with projects like Them Crooked Vultures, Dave Grohl is at the centre of everything interesting that is happening in music.To be honest, Them Crooked Vultures, and working with Macca and Prodigy smacks of a career which has run aground - much as how the Oscars and BAFTAs will give a lifetime award to a director or actor who looks like they might not be around for the next prize night, it makes sense for the NME to try and get a prize into hands that are just starting to pull on string driving gloves for a life of trundling in the middle lane.
Also: at the centre of everything interesting happening in music? Really? Are you sure?
2 comments:
Dave Grohl is the epitome of a rock genius. His talent as a musician/singer/songwriter cannot easily be topped. He deserves any award he has or will ever receive. From his days in Nirvana to Foo Fighters, to his work with Them Crooked Vultures and Tenacious D, he has proved over and over again his limitless talent. His passion for his music shines through in everything he is involved in, and also his personality is the most relatable, humurous, breath of fresh air I have ever seen in the music industry. I can only pray for many, many more years of music from the awesomeness known as Dave Grohl.
I can't claim to be an expert on God, but I think a God which gets involved in both Tenacious D and Them Crooked Vultures would outrank the God of the Old Testament for unwarranted cruelty.
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