Dave Grohl Gets His Own Alley

08/04/09 4:11pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was honoured on Saturday when an alleyway in his hometown of Warren, Ohio was renamed after him.

Grohl was given the key to the city on Saturday and Market Alley was renamed Dave Grohl Alley. Grohl was born in Warren and lived there with his parents before moving to Alexandria, Va.

"When I was a kid, I used to love to come here," Grohl told a crowd on Saturday, according to NME.com. "This is one of my favourite places in the world."

Grohl played three Foo Fighters songs at the event after drumming with local band Love Turns Hate.

Warren's city council decided to rename the alley after Grohl last year when local radio DJ Fast Freddie and Warren police sergeant Joe O'Grady launched a campaign to name a street after the former Nirvana drummer.

Grohl's new band with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones is reportedly called Them Crooked Vultures.

The Antiquiet blog reports the band are finishing their debut album and will tour in support of it sometime soon. No dates have been announced, nor has the band's official name or even the release of an album been confirmed.

But if the symbols on this website are any indication, it looks like the three musicians will play a show together very soon.

Spinnerette's Brody Dalle, who's married to Homme, told Antiquiet her husband was working with Grohl and Jones on a new project that she described as "pretty fucking amazing" even though she said she wasn't allowed to talk about it.