Dave Grohl

Inspired by one of his favorite guitars, the Gibson Trini Lopez, Dave Grohl also uses the Gibson DG-335 Electric Guitar which comes in a Pelham Blue color. Dave bought his first Trini Lopez from me ~ just mentioning that for fun.

Dave Grohl can be seen playing Rick Nielsen's Hamer Standard in this photo.

"This guitar, I've made every single Foo Fighters record with it. This one. This is a fucking beautiful guitar. I saw this in a guitar shop in Bethesda, Maryland. I think it was 1992 or '93 or something like that, I was still in Nirvana when I bought it. I thought it was unusual because it looks like a Gibson ES 335 except that it has diamond-shaped F-holes and has this different headstock on it. And I didn't really know anything about Trini Lopez the artist when I bought it. But this fucking thing, this is the sound of the Foo Fighters - this guitar. On every record I might use other guitars every now and then, but for the most part it's just this," says guitarist Dave Grohl about his Gibson Trini Lopez Standard Reissue Electric Guitar.

"In 'Headwires' the high, picking part in the middle eight is an SG through the Memory Man," says Dave Grohl in reference to the Gibson SG Electric Guitar. Dave Grohl uses Drop-A tuning in this case.

"The main riff used in 'Headwires' is on an Explorer playing through the Memory Man and the Vox, and the harmonics were done with the same setup," mentions Foo Fighters's lead guitarist, Dave Grohl, in reference to the Gibson Explorer electric guitar.

Can be seen with him at 1:48

In this video, Grohl played Taylor 900 series. He used this guitar only in this ocassion.

"I didn't use it much on the record, but I pull it out live. RDs are awesome. It's like holding a kitchen table over your chest and having it scream like a jet airplane. I like that they're really heavy and can sound fat or bright. They're kind of nasty guitars - played through a Boogie Rectifier, they sound completely insane," mentions Foo Fighters lead guitarist Dave Grohl in reference to the Gibson RD Standard Electric Guitar.

"In the song 'Headwires', the choruses are the Duo Jet running through a Rat and the Vox," points out Dave Grohl about using the Gretsch Duo Jet Electric Guitar.

"I'm looking at this beautiful Epiphone," says Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters while playing on a Epiphone Texan 1958 Acoustic Guitar.

Dave Grohl played a Firebird Studio in the "In Your Honor" era.

Dave Grohl can be seen playing the Dan Armstrong guitar in this photo.

Dave Grohl is using this acoustic guitar for the acoustic songs he performs with the Foo Fighters or just solo as you can see in the video from 00:01.

Dave is using this flying v in de video for the song Rope, a song from the Foo Fighters album Wasting Light. (you can see the guitar for the first time clearly at 00:17).

Dave is using this guitar during the Foo Fighters song Cold Day In The Sun, a song drummer Taylor Hawkins wrote and sings live at Pinkpop 2011. You can see the guitar from 00:03.

Dave Grohl used the Gibson Les Paul Dale Earnhardt Jr. guitar on stage when his band Foo Fighters played Rock in Rio Lisboa in 2004.

Dave Grohl played the Duesenberg Starplayer TV Creamy-Perloid on 5.8.2012 O2 Arena, Prague, Czech republic.

In the music video for "My Hero", Dave can be seen playing the Les Paul Custom at :38s.

Not really much is known about Dave Grohl and this Silvertone Kentucky Blue. The interview that came with the photo of this guitar was done in August 2006, so he probably used it around that time.

In this photo, Dave Grohl is seen playing a Fender Telecaster Custom. The pickup configuration can be clearly seen, which identifies it as a Tele Custom. The black and white photo makes it hard to say what the finish is with certainty, but it appears to be black with a black pickguard.

Dave Grohl is shown with his custom Manson guitar on this page of Manson's website.

In the music video for the Foo Fighters song "Monkey Wrench," Dave Grohl can be seen playing a Gretsch White Falcon electric guitar. Shots of the guitar can be seen sporadically throughout the video.

Here you see Dave playing the Gibson Memphis Dave Grohl ES-335 (Gold Metallic) in Ullevi stadium in Sweden playing Everlong! (Just before his accident)

One of the most popular videos of Dave on YouTube is one in which he sings Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer”. The guitar he used was a Martin D-28.

Dave Grohl uses this guitar on the video of breakout. From 3.19, he is playing on stage with this guitar.

When Dave Grohl played the Devil in Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, he used a Dean guitar to battle JB in the final battle.

In Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny Dave Grohl plays a Dimebag Darrel signature Dean From Hell style guitar with what seems to be a flamed top.