3rd December 2011: On Your Own Terms
Foo Fighters (1995)
Dave Grohl‘s career holds an important lesson for me. After Nirvana‘s dissolution, he developed Foo Fighters as a side-project and then as a full band. He established a completely new creative environment and gained commercial success on his own terms. He refused to live in Nirvana’s shadow. He even acknowledged his hardcore punk and metal roots with the Probot collaborative project. Grohl was able to show how through persistence, strategic thinking, and execution, the creative individual can succeed instead of becoming institutionalised. You don’t necessarily need a large organisation if you establish the appropriate structures, which Grohl did.
It’s a lesson I use daily in my creative, research projects.
