Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is aware of it might get sweaty on stage, performing music to 1000’s of followers. When Foo Fighters play to audiences worldwide, Grohl is the middle of all of the motion. He’s operating up and down, screaming his head off (until he’s sitting on a rock ‘n’ roll throne with a damaged leg). There’s no stopping what he’ll do to get a crowd going.
Nonetheless, someplace alongside the way in which, throughout every efficiency, Grohl begins smelling like cat piss, and he doesn’t perceive why.
Dave Grohl begins smelling like ‘cat piss’ midway by way of Foo Fighters gigs
The Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman revealed he begins smelling like cat piss midway by way of Foo Fighters gigs throughout an interview on 95.5 KLOS. He doesn’t know why or how.
To start with, the radio host excused himself as a result of his proper armpit had been “working overtime,” and he stunk. Grohl agreed he will get “more stank” on one facet than the opposite. That led Grohl into his cat piss story.
“I actually have this thing that’s going on now that’s freaking me out, and I don’t know what it is. But it’s the last trip, like the last tour, that halfway through the show, I smell like cat piss,” Grohl stated. “I swear to god.” Grohl requested Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins if he will get it too. Hawkins replied sure.
“But at that last show in San Diego, I walked off stage, and I asked people to come smell me. I said, ‘Do I smell like cat piss? I smell like cat piss.’ Nobody said, ‘Yeah, you smell like cat piss.’”
Grohl continued, “I don’t know what it is, I dump water on me all the time, and then it’s like maybe the Jäger is coming out through the pores.”
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Typically, Grohl can odor the viewers
The radio host at 95.5 KLOS requested Grohl if he ever smelled the viewers. Grohl stated he had on multiple event.
“Typically you get-like when you play a kind of hokey arenas the place they put one thing over the ice, and then you definitely get like 10 thousand folks bouncing round, it creates this little cloud-like this personal bizarre little climate system after which that’ll hit you.
“I can tell which states weed is legal in because you get close to the audience, and all of a sudden it’s purple haze and you’re out of your mind.”
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The frontman’s pre-show ritual
Grohl additionally revealed his pre-show ritual. It includes heavy consuming and a little bit of peer stress.
“An hour and a half before the gig,” Grohl stated, “I take three Advil. An hour earlier than the gig, I’ve a Coors Gentle. About 50 minutes earlier than the gig, I hit my first Jägermeister, end the Coors Gentle, get one other Coors Gentle going.
“Now there’s a bunch of individuals round, so I’m throwing photographs at everyone and I’m taking photographs with everybody within the room. The subsequent Coors Gentle is down, I get a chilly one. Now it’s about possibly 20 minutes earlier than occurring. I’ve had three or 4 photographs of Jäger and three Coors Lights. They kind of clear the room and we get quarter-hour to ourselves.
“So then, it’s all of us and I really feel responsible as a result of I’m the one one who’s been doing the photographs of the Jag so I begin feeding photographs of Jag to the remainder of the band who’re all consuming white wine and champagne and no matter.
“So I’m pounding them with Jag however I’ve to take them [the shots] with them so now I’m 5 – 6 photographs in. It’s like, it’s time to stroll to the stage so I crack one other beer simply to have a chilly one as I stroll up and I choose up the bottle and drink the final inch of the Jag!
“Then we play for three hours, in which I’m also drinking Jäger onstage (laughs).” If Grohl doesn’t take the Advil, he will get a “swelling aneurysm headache” from screaming his head off for 3 hours.
So possibly the Jäger does come out of Grohl’s pores. One factor is for positive, although, Grohl doesn’t odor like Teen Spirit after Foo Fighters gigs.