After being dubbed the ultimate Good Guy Celebrity of Internet lore. If you’re not familiar with, just go ahead and click here for the Google results of “Good Guy Grohl.”
Somewhere in all those links you’re likely to see some stuff along the lines of how he chatted with a fan with cerebral palsy after a show for twenty minutes and recognized her at a later concert, the time he noticed a fan with a sign that read something about “Drumstick for a Blind Fan” and proceeded to stop the show to get him one from drummer Taylor Hawkins, or how he stopped a show at one point to kick out a fan who was trying to get in a fight in the audience.
And this doesn’t even get into the other things that he’s done when the cameras haven’t been rolling due to his charitable causes, or inviting the same fan with cerebral palsy to a video shoot the following day.
So, is it any surprise that when Grohl offered up his guitar throne to Axl Rose following the broken foot suffered at Guns n’ Roses’ first shows in decades, that he would pass on some of that good natured-ness to the Bad Boy of 80’s rock n’ roll?
Because ever since Axl Rose has been reunited with his old band mates, he’s been more than just a model of decency, he’s actually been….dare we say…pleasant? Maybe even…nice?
When speaking of his first shows at Coachella where he was reunited with Slash and Duff McKagan, Rose actually referred to playing with his old bandmates as being a nice experience, is something most fans would never have expected to hear given the previous animosity shared between Slash and Axl, and even less so given the fact that at one point both had claimed that the likelihood of a reunion tour, much less show, was “not likely in this lifetime.”
And what’s more, the shows are not only starting on time, but the general attitude of the band that was once referred to as the most dangerous band in rock n’ roll has completely changed.
Apparently, Axl even went so far as to call the Coachella crowd “lovely” at the first of the two weekends, something that would have been seemingly unimaginable back in the band’s prime.
But maybe this is something we should have seen happening before. Beyond Slash and Axl setting aside their differences to be on good terms again during 2015, there had seemed to be an increased humility in Axl Rose’s demeanor. Beyond performing a concert that he would have cancelled for lesser reasons in the past, Axl Rose also went beyond to suck up his pride and borrow a chair from Grohl, who’s bandmate Kurt Cobain Axl had previously threatened to have his bodyguards beat up at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
Or maybe we should have seen it in the fact that after being named as one of the singers with the greatest vocal ranges in the world, Rose happened up the list and decided to comment on the article, noting that it was very “humbling and flattering to be included in such an illustrious list” before providing a list of his favorite singers and noting that he “would rather hear ANY of them” as opposed to his own voice.
So, sure, maybe there are transitive properties in the Dave Grohl Guitar Throne, but if we’re actually being honest, Rose had already started becoming a better person far before he ever got to sit in the Nicest Guy in Rock n’ Roll’s chair.
