Dave Grohl and Crappy Christian Art

Dave Grohl is awesome, take fifty minutes out of your day and watch this, his keynote from sxsw, lot's of F-bombs so don't watch it on your phone in church or you will feel bad.

David Eric Grohl

Dave is awesome, his music is awesome, his story is awesome.  I think he is so authentic because he actually is.  In the aforementioned speech that you can find here, (seriously, watch this) he says one major theme,

the artist comes first

I think this concept is wild when it comes to really crappy christian art.  Think about how David, the rock star who wrote all those songs in the middle of the Bible.  David knew that the artist came first.

Half the Psalms are David bitching about how hard his life is, and go read them his life was hard.  But he would complain by creating art and then tap back into the source to keep fighting and keep creating more art.  In my book David was known for two things, being a song writer and kicking ass.

And what are Christian artist's known for today, a false humility that covers the fact they won't expose themselves out there or their art.  At one point in the speech Grohl says "I was no longer one of you (pointing at the crowd) I was one of us (he points at himself)".  He is speaking to becoming a punk rocker and the idea is startling.  He openly and happily separates himself from the world.  My Bible has some passage in it talking about being in the world but not of the world.  It's a shame I have to go to f*****g Dave Grohl to see that best exemplified in modern culture.

The final thought is that Nirvana, according to Grohl, was "three people playing like their lives depended on it".  When was the last time you saw somebody acting like that, look at that picture of Grohl above again, do you see any part of his heart, his soul, his mind or his strength going anywhere but into that music.  You can feel the music from looking at the picture.

I don't know who this guy is, but I don't think Dave Grohl would like him.