Dave Grohl attempts to clarify Grammy speech with an even more muddled press release
On the ladder of this year's Grammy controversies, Dave Grohl's apparent dismissal of electronic music during his acceptance speech for Foo Fighters winning Best Rock Album is several steps below Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj's bizarre, Catholic-baiting fantasia of WTF-ness. But it ruffled enough feathers to convince Grohl that he needed to clarify his words nearly a week later. In a press release that appears to have been written by Grohl himself, the singer-guitarist-drummer expresses amazement that his speech "evoked such caps-lock postboard rage" before insisting that it had nothing to do with slamming any specific kind of music, but rather modern-day recording techniques:
I love music. I love ALL kinds of music. From Kyuss to Kraftwerk, Pinetop Perkins to Prodigy, Dead Kennedys to Deadmau5…..I love music. Electronic or acoustic, it doesn't matter to me. The simple act of creating music is a beautiful gift that ALL human beings are blessed with. And the diversity of one musician's personality to the next is what makes music so exciting and…..human.