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A film about the passion and challenges of touring in a van, featuring interviews with rock legends and young bands. Directed by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, the documentary explores the romance, adventure and chaos of life on the road.
- (1.1K)
- Documentary
- Dave Grohl
- 2021-04-30
WHAT DRIVES US is a testament to the musician’s life. Watch now: https://bit.ly/333IXnLWHAT DRIVES US is out now exclusively on The Coda Collection via Amazo...
- 3 min
- 714.9K
- Foo Fighters
What Drives Us. "What Drives Us" tells the stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the idiocy and chaos, of their time on the road.
"What Drives Us" follows bands Radkey and Starcrawler as they take on the world, one town at a time, while also telling stories of the biggest artists in the music...
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- Henri Cash
- Dave Grohl
- Documentary, Music
- The Beatles Saved U2’s The Edge from His Hobby of Pyromania.
- AC/DC’s Brian Johnson Wanted to Be A Drummer. Then He Heard Little Richard.
- Dave Grohl Credits Van Touring with Saving The Foo Fighters.
- Hardcore Legends D.O.A. Are Credited with The Advent of Diy Van Touring.
- Even The Beatles Farted in Their Van.
- No Doubt Once Played to A Crowd Smaller Than The Actual Band.
- Packing A Tour Van Is Like Playing Tetris.
- Napster Foe Lars Ulrich Now Embraces Technology.
- Streaming (Maybe) Killed The Van Tour.
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The Edge is among the artists in What Drives Uswho state that music inspired them to shake up the monotony of everyday life and, in the guitarist’s case, drop a potentially dangerous hobby. “The one downside of living in the ‘burbs of Dublin city is often there’s not a lot going on, so we’d have to find other ways of amusing ourselves. That’s when ...
For Johnson, his moment of discovering rock & roll came at age 12 when he witnessed Little Richard performing “Tutti Frutti” on the BBC. “I was like, ‘What the fuck?!’ It turned me on my tits,” Johnson — who first dreamed of being a drummer — tells Grohl. “I couldn’t believe anyone could sing like that.” Rock & roll later saved Johnson from his dea...
Through previously unseen home movies, a portion of What Drives Ustakes the viewer back into the Foo Fighters’ van during a May 1995 tour, two months before the band’s self-titled debut album — recorded by Grohl alone — was released. While most artists, from Aerosmith to St. Vincent, traversed the nation by van to spread their music to a larger aud...
Both Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat and Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan credit hardcore punk greats D.O.A. and their 1979 trek as the maiden voyage that sparked thousands of van tours. D.O.A.’s odyssey began in their native Vancouver, headed east to New York and Washington, D.C., and back west to Los Angeles, where the group told Black Flag tha...
“I think it’s great for the band in the van because you get to know each other; you’re locked in. I think that was part of us coming together, as the song says,” Ringo Starr says of the Beatles’ time driving around the U.K. before Beatlemania. The drummer also offers up some advice from those early days: “If you fart in the van, admit it. Because i...
No Doubt’s Tony Kanal reminisces about one of the Orange County ska band’s early tours and how their gig at a venue in Oxford, Mississippi, sold zerotickets. Drummer Adrian Young thankfully befriended some girls at the band’s hotel, so four people ended up attending the show. However, the audience was smaller than No Doubt’s then-touring unit of se...
One common bond shared by every band that’s packed into a van is the challenge of loading up the vehicle when heading out on the road. But like snowflakes, no two van arrangements are the same. The artists interviewed in the doc each share their different gear-storage permutations, the perfect placement of which Grohl compared to playing the brain-...
It only took a pandemic — and the necessity to livestream during lockdown — but the man partially responsible for the downfall of the Napster file-sharing program now admits that he’s embracing a music-industry future that’s growing more high tech with each passing year. “I not only accept the technology and where it’s gone, but I actually love it,...
With new technology and the different ways music is discovered now — streaming service playlists have more reach than a thousand small club gigs — the need for van touring has diminished. So too, some veterans argue, has both the quantity and quality of rock bands, as those indispensable van journeys were formative and foundational experiences for ...
Watch What Drives Us, a film that explores the early touring days of rock legends like the Beatles, U2, Metallica, and Foo Fighters. Learn how music saved them from boredom, pyromania, or abusive stepfathers.
Apr 28, 2021 · The Foo Fighters frontman directs and interviews rockstars about their experiences of touring in vans, from punk to hardcore to glam. The film celebrates the adventure, camaraderie and challenges of life on the road, with stories of debauchery, racism and roadside dead pigs.
Apr 12, 2021 · Dave Grohl directed a new movie about touring and vans called What Drives Us. The film, co-produced by Foo Fighters, includes interviews with St. Vincent, Slash, the Edge, Flea, Steven Tyler,...
