Man, I don't know about Dave Grohl, but James Hetfield does own. Dave Grohl feels more like saying that Billy Joe, or the guys from Blink 182 are great frontmans, not a lot of stage presence or anything, just good music altogether with the band.
James Hetfield, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant, John Fogerty, John Lennon, Roger Waters, Gilmour, they all have a lot of presence in stage and great vocal ranges, with the exception of Roger Waters of course, not that great of a singer but a good lyricist and has a lot of theatracality. I guess theatracality would be another good description for a great frontman. I mean, look at Hetfield performing Enter Sandman on S&M, he literally seems as trying to make you feel the fear of the sandman, for me he achieves it even on record, not necesarily watching his videos.
On the contrary Dave Grohl just seems like a guy yelling at the mic and strumming hardly downwards into his guitar, which is a thing most rock players today do and seems dumb to me. Hahahah just straight on power chords, no feeling on it whatsoever. That's why i think rock has sunk into a hole.
Every rock player should listen to Metallica without distortion, it seems like a Classic masterpiece, some power chords, but then changing to a master lick, back to power chords, then solo, the improv, some lead, showing some real mastery of the instruments.
For me, Green Day, Blink 182, Foo Fighters, Hoobastank, and all those bands that came in the time are like recess on elementary school.
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Creedence, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, The Doors, etc are more like PhD rock music.
It seems rock is coming back from this vacation with bands like King Gizzard or Greta Van Fleet.
