Since Dave Grohl made his post-Nirvana debut with Foo Fighters in 1995, there have been multiple eras of his favoured onstage guitars, with the common thread being that they’re more often than not an iteration of the classic Gibson dual-humbucker format – from the Les Paul Standards and Customs, Explorers and SGs, to the occasional Firebird. One of the few breaks in this chain came in the early Noughties around the band’s fourth album, One By One, where he briefly became associated with his Ampeg Dan Armstrong, temporarily introducing a whole new generation to the revered see-through Lucite model before moving back to his familiar Gibsons.
In 2007 came the biggest constant for Grohl: the Gibson DG-335. It’s this guitar that we’ve seen him playing most often – in fact,
