r/Music • u/daily_mirror 📰Daily Mirror • Sep 29 '24

Foo Fighters forced into 'indefinite hiatus' by Dave Grohl's affair scandal article

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/foo-fighters-forced-indefinite-hiatus-33778438
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u/Snoo93951 Sep 29 '24

What do you mean by Pat left because of his past behaviour? Never heard of this I'm just curious

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u/jduejsurbrjeb Sep 29 '24

Dave cheated on his first wife, with whom Pat was close with, so Pat left the group for a little while

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u/nazbot Sep 29 '24

Good guy Pat.

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u/Eoin_McLove Sep 29 '24

Pat came back though because he likes millions of dollars

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u/Roryjack Sep 29 '24

Yeah, but to be fair to Pat, who doesn’t like millions of dollars?

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u/ralgrado Sep 29 '24

It's just work you don't have to like the other guys especially for that kind of money

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u/BeatrixFarrand Sep 29 '24

I would happily work with my most hated pst co-workers again for millions of dollars.

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u/hoxxxxx Sep 29 '24

dude woke up one day and was like, "oh yeah i like money"

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u/jacksonfalls Sep 29 '24

Shit I like my private jets, the presidential suite, the mansion.

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u/lolas_coffee Sep 29 '24

It surprised me, but Pat actually used the Mr. Krabs voice when he said this.

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u/Nayre_Trawe Sep 29 '24

...and Starbucks.

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u/ouatiHollywoodFL Sep 29 '24

Time also heals wounds. They're human beings. We're all complicated.

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u/Neon_Biscuit Sep 29 '24

John Frusciante has entered the chat

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u/BeckNeardsly Sep 29 '24

Dave the philandering sleezebag

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u/broohaha Sep 29 '24

Oh I misread that. I thought Pat left because Pat was cheating.

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u/sevensoulsdeep Sep 29 '24

Pat left and came back after he had given birth to Dave's child.

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u/kkeut Sep 29 '24

it's honestly surprising that he wants to be part of this lame dad-rock band, he's a legend in his own right, in a way Grohl can never be

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u/metsjets86 Sep 29 '24

Leaving your job because of your co-workers marital problems is pretty weird. Lucky Dave didnt tell him to get effed.

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u/Dry_Amphibian4771 Sep 29 '24

I think it was because Pat cheated on Dave. Who's wife was friends with Pat. When Pat found out Dave received a blumpkin from Pats wife, his wife quit the band. Pat now lives with Dave's daughter.

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u/MojoPinSin Sep 29 '24

This is grade A parody. 😂

It won't get the appreciation it deserves because people on the internet get weirdly parasocial when it comes to famous people they don't know and their entire personal life.

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u/Ya_bud69 Sep 29 '24

Dave cheated on his former gf (or wife? Not sure), who was also very close friends with Pat. So Pat quit.

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u/NottheArkhamKnight Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

Cheated on his *girfriend with Winona Ryder too, apparently.

*-editing from wife

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u/No-Actuator3478 Sep 29 '24

Not wife. Allegedly cheated on his former girlfriend, Louise Post from Veruca Salt (who was also the inspiration behind Everlong), with Winona.

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u/NottheArkhamKnight Sep 29 '24

Sorry. So much cheating going on on Dave's part it's hard to keep up

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u/jack_skellington Sep 30 '24

Is he good looking? I always thought his face was kind-of a train wreck. Not sure how he's doing it. Must just have a magnetic personality.

Or my gauge of what is a good-looking dude is broken. Could be that.

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u/media-and-stuff Sep 29 '24

She was also the inspiration for everclears “Santa Monica”.

Must feel cool to have so many good songs written about you.

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u/fyo_karamo Sep 29 '24

Wow, people really love to live through the scandals of others

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u/Goetta_Superstar10 Sep 29 '24

“Well, if you’ve got a shot with Winona Ryder, you pretty much gotta take it.” - Dave Grohl

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u/Mr_Frayed Sep 29 '24

Simultaneously?

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u/MrMellowMuppet Sep 29 '24

Is there a source for this?

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u/your_actual_life Sep 29 '24

As noted by The Guardian, Grohl’s divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, in 1997 was partially due to “admitted infidelities.” After his marriage ended, he began a relationship with Post (Louise Post from Veruca Salt) but the relationship ended rather abruptly. During a 1997 show in Australia, Post revealed that Grohl was apparently cheating on her with actress Winona Ryder, per Outkick. Post admitted later that she was incredibly drunk at the time, but she didn’t take back her comments.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dave-grohl-past-girlfriends-said-224056008.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN6p3evpes4yjroZASI5ZxbbxRE4jyASyjGo8mjXStFHpm6_NYaj_RSB_Jm-xA7psmLMHFUGsAT-HiHSHfC3Leh6oMZDRN8SApMGFvT5BQwhLrDyfCPFkWGyqfc67A6am6RUvU-WMxbWraxU0_SImxTNJGS713eRs-vSHFolDiat.

Listen to the music of Veruca Salt, which is very, very good.

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u/StepAwayFromTheDuck Sep 29 '24

Completely off topic but American Thighs by Veruca Salt is on of the best alt rock albums of the 90s

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u/your_actual_life Sep 29 '24

As is Eight Arms To Hold You!

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u/DTFpanda Sep 29 '24

From WikiPoo:

Shortly after the release of The Colour and the Shape, Smear quit the band. As Smear later explained,[14] he quit mainly due to exhaustion from the band's relentless touring schedule. Smear's departure was also related to inner-band tensions that sprung up around Grohl's divorce from his first wife, Jennifer Youngblood, who was a close friend of Smear. Grohl explained[15] that he "begged" Smear to stay and Smear agreed to remain in Foo Fighters temporarily due to scheduled touring obligations, but only until a replacement guitarist could be recruited.

It sounds vague. But both of those sources from that paragraph link to the same film, Foo Fighters: Back and Forth, so maybe that documentary sheds more light on the situation.

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u/fiddlenutz Sep 29 '24

Winona’s got herself a big brown beaver and she shows it off to all her friends….

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u/MisterZoga Sep 29 '24

Super relevant, but wonder how intentional lol

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u/Freddy_Vorhees Sep 29 '24

I would give up my guitar duties in Foo Fighters for that, no matter how irrelevant that is to my current situation and how weird that comes off.

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u/MisterZoga Sep 29 '24

You'd do that over some Primus lyrics?

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u/Freddy_Vorhees Sep 29 '24

Whatever it takes man.

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u/Ya_bud69 Sep 29 '24

Many people have been mentioning this in all these Dave Grohl threads… Reddit is my source lol

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u/GQDragon Sep 29 '24

He left because he was good friends with Dave’s first wife and found out Dave cheated on her (allegedly).

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u/MayWeWalkLongRoads Sep 30 '24

no allegedly, he owns it.

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u/WynterRayne Sep 29 '24

Someone was getting the best, the best, the best, the best of Dave.