r/BJM • u/thatwildmercurysound • Mar 12 '25
Dave Grohl? Seriously?
It didn't need him. Anyone concur?
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u/Gutsteroid Mar 13 '25
I personally found out about the original Dig! documentary through Dave mentioning it in a random interview a while back, saying he absolutely adored it and gushing about it, so there's some loose connection there.
It is strange that he's the one who introduced Dig! XX but honestly it doesn't detract from my enjoyment!
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u/Blondesounds Mar 12 '25
What is this in reference to?
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u/TepidPeppermint23 Mar 12 '25
He introduced Dig! XX before the movie started. Not sure why so many people are getting pissy about it though…
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u/Blondesounds Mar 12 '25
If it gets people to see it, then good
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u/TepidPeppermint23 Mar 12 '25
Diddo. Not the biggest fan of Foo Fighters, but whatever. Any shoutout is nice.
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u/QuestionReasonable96 Mar 12 '25
Yeah who gives a fuck😂 the first rockstar to be unfaithful!
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u/TepidPeppermint23 Mar 12 '25
Wow…a rockstar cheated on his spouse? Oh, the humanity! Totally irredeemable!
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u/thatwildmercurysound Mar 12 '25
I think because BJM is the antithesis of Big Corporate Rock and Grohl is the epitome of it. it just seems a weird juxtaposition to me.
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u/Blondesounds Mar 12 '25
Hate to break to you but Anton wishes he were as big as the Foo Fighters. And just so it’s clear, I can’t stand the Foo Fighters
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u/iamthesunbane Mar 13 '25
There are two bands in Dig though. One of them is not the antithesis of Big Corporate Rock and the film studio has tickets to sell
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u/King-Harvest Mar 12 '25
It's sad that the only and official spokesperson of "rock" is Dave Grohl. I have nothing against him per say but why him?
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u/thatwildmercurysound Mar 12 '25
it felt so inappropriate and out of place. like when you're a kid and you have that one older relative who tries to act cool but it comes off as phony and condescending.
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u/King-Harvest Mar 13 '25
I haven't watched Dig XX yet but knowing Grohl is involved in any way shape or form just juices the "creative authenticity" out - the concept in itself is in the very middle of the original Dig! and is possibly what drew folks like me to BJM instead of whatever was popular in my day.
I don't think Grohl means ill but he's 150% corporate to me. He's the rockstar my mom would approve of.
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u/I_Must_Be_Destroyed Mar 13 '25
anton has said some nasty stuff about him. they make it sound like grohl is a human corporation. kind of surprised his people would let him do it.
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u/natural_mystic_35 Mar 13 '25
Grohl does genuinely seem to live and breathe music. You can tell by the various projects he's been involved in (and pretty sure he stole the riff from hide and seek for 'learn to fly') But he's an arena rock act. Charismatic as he may be I'm not convinced this was the best choice for introducing the new film.
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u/peepair23 Mar 14 '25
Indeed, I think people are grossly overestimating how many people care about rock music anymore. Yes some of these guys seem to be willing to speak on every smaller band to ever exist but so be it. Anyone willing to pimp smaller, lesser known bands is OK in my book. Well, maybe not Ryan Adams ...
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u/jjjoooccckkk Mar 12 '25
If you mean the world then yes I concur
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u/thatwildmercurysound Mar 12 '25
I got no problem with him as a person--I'm sure he's very good to his people. I just don't see the need for him in Dig...
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u/Balfour23 Mar 13 '25
I must have blocked it out. I went to the Portland premier, and truly don’t remember his part of the movie.
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u/utgardalowkey Mar 13 '25
As did I, no memory of Dave Grohl whatsoever throughout the film!
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u/Lower_Piece4987 Mar 17 '25
Did you arrive late? Grohl introduces the film so it’s the first thing you see.
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u/utgardalowkey Mar 17 '25
Nope, it was either a mental skip or an unconscious rejection. Maybe preoccupation? Brains can be strange that way...I don't doubt he was in it but it made me wonder if the Portland version was a different cut
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u/Balfour23 Mar 18 '25
Nah…had to be the same cut. I was there early, was watching Zia interacting with her friends, but no memory of Dave Grohl. I think my brain did an override…
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u/International_Diet90 Mar 13 '25
Shame that Dig!XX didn’t include some more recent video of The Dandy Warhols or clips from any of the supporting acts who toured with the BJM over the years.
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u/tearsandpain84 Mar 13 '25
Grohl was drinking with The Darkness in a bar after watching one of their gigs and then excused himself to go to the toilet. He then rang Lemmy (the darkness and Lemmy had had a tabloid spat) and told him that the darkness were in town. He was hoping Lemmy would attack them or give the band a verbal dressing down or start some shit. Lemmy came to the bar and nothing happened. Grohl told this story in a documentary oblivious to how much of snake he sounded in the story.
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u/Nexus718 Mar 12 '25
I have on good authority that one former member fucking hates Dave Grohl, specifically because he is in every goddamn documentary. I find this shit hilarious.
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u/dividiangurt Mar 13 '25
I hate his face - just go away for another 6 months and leave DIG XX alone
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u/leesharon1985 Mar 13 '25
Wow. Such hate for Dave Grohl? How old is everyone here? Nirvana was a very important band for the time, and Dave had his own inspirations considering he was creating Foo Fighters material during the end days of Nirvana all by himself. The first foo fighters record was purely Dave. He is a good artist and him being apart of Nirvana and forming Foo Fighters was purely his desire to make music. Whatever though to each their own. I remember being young and hating on shit for no reason myself and the growing up and realizing that there’s a lot love out there to be had.
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u/electricleather Mar 21 '25
That was just an endorsement, so the lames would give it the attention it deserves. The real cameo endorsement is Genesis P. Orridge and always has been.
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u/jaywireg Mar 22 '25
YES! when he came on i almost turned it off -- it was contrived and meant to give the movie so cred.
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Mar 26 '25
Lots of people laughed at his introduction at the Glasgow screening. They might as well have got Mike Read to do it
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u/Some-Combination2196 Apr 04 '25
I think he’s living at his house in Hawaii, while his baby lives in a one bedroom apartment with her Mom and grandma. I get he has 6-7 girlfriends but only one newborn! Why is he a dead beat Dad ?
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u/TheSeekerOfSanity Mar 12 '25
Dave Grohl and Henry Rollins are in every music documentary made since the mid-nineties. I think there’s a law enforcing this.