Editing Dave Grohl (section)

====Initial post-Nirvana activity====
Following Cobain's death, Grohl went into isolation and retreated for several months, unsure of what to do next, and moved to [[County Kerry]], Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kavanagh |first=Grainne |date=October 12, 2021 |title=Dave Grohl REVEALS trip to IRELAND inspired formation of Foo Fighters |url=https://meanwhileinireland.com/dave-grohl-reveals-trip-to-ireland-inspired-formation-of-foo-fighters/ |access-date=December 25, 2023 |website=Meanwhile in Ireland |language=en-GB}}</ref> In a 2022 interview, Grohl said:

{{Blockquote|text=I was still in Seattle, and I just felt, "I gotta get out." I [had to] go somewhere where I could just disappear and sort through my life, and try to figure out what to do next... I was winding around these country roads – so beautiful – and I was finding peace… and I come upon this hitchhiker, and I was considering picking him up, and I saw that he had a Kurt Cobain T-shirt. And to me that meant: "You can't outrun this thing, so it's time … to push through and find some sort of continuation." So I flew home and I immediately started recording those Foo Fighters songs.|author=Dave Grohl<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexa |first=Bob |date=2022-10-16 |title=How Dave Grohl Dealt with Kurt Cobain's Death |url=https://www.wearethepit.com/2022/10/how-dave-grohl-dealt-with-kurt-cobains-death/}}</ref>}}

In October 1994, he scheduled studio time at [[Robert Lang Studios]] and quickly recorded a fifteen-track demo. With the exception of a single guitar part on "X-Static" played by [[Greg Dulli]] of [[the Afghan Whigs]], Grohl performed all of the instruments himself.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kirby|first=David|title=Dave Grohl: From Antsy Student to Nirvana to Foo Fighters|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/this-is-a-call-the-life-and-times-of-dave-grohl-by-paul-brannigan-book-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/books/review/this-is-a-call-the-life-and-times-of-dave-grohl-by-paul-brannigan-book-review.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited|access-date=March 26, 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 20, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Grohl wondered if his future might be in drumming for other bands. In November, Grohl took a brief turn with [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]], including a performance on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. He declined an invitation to become Petty's permanent drummer.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/thisiscalllifeti00bran_0 |first=Paul |last=Brannigan|title=This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl | url-access=registration |year=2011|publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-81956-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/thisiscalllifeti00bran_0/page/236 236]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://loudwire.com/dave-grohl-explains-turned-down-tom-petty-drumming-offer/ | title=Dave Grohl: Why I Turned Down Joining Tom Petty After Nirvana | first=Chad | last=Childers | work=[[Loudwire]] | date=February 15, 2021}}</ref> Grohl was also rumored as a possible replacement for [[Pearl Jam]] drummer [[Dave Abbruzzese]] and performed with the band for a song or two at three shows during Pearl Jam's March 1995 Australian tour. However, by then, Pearl Jam had already settled on ex-[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] drummer [[Jack Irons]], and Grohl had other solo plans.<ref name="Jam2011">{{cite book|author=Pearl Jam|title=Pearl Jam Twenty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M89kbBxGK4MC&pg=PA148|access-date=March 26, 2013|date=September 13, 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-6940-7|pages=148}}</ref><ref name="Cross2012">{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Cross|title=Pearl Jam: the secret history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ordeqqbm378C&pg=PT28|access-date=March 26, 2013|date=June 26, 2012|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-1-927002-19-3|pages=28}}</ref>