Dave Grohl defends Phoebe Bridgers’s guitar smash on SNL

Bridgers smashed a guitar at the end of her recent appearance on 'Saturday Night Live'

Dave Grohl has defended Phoebe Bridgers's decision to smash a guitar at the end of her recent performance on Saturday Night Live.

The musician was asked about the stunt during an interview on Howard Stern's show on Wednesday.

"First of all, you have to understand that for the last 10 years, every interview I do, people say: 'Is rock and roll dead?' I'm like, 'I don't think so,'" Grohl said.

He noted there's been a recent "return to guitar rock music in popular music", and said he watched Bridgers's performance and discussed it with his own mother.

"She goes, 'Did you see Saturday Night Live? I said, 'Yeah,'" he recounted. "She goes, 'What did you think about that girl Phoebe?' I go, 'She's got a beautiful voice. She can really sing.' My mother's like, 'I loved it. I thought she was great.'"

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Grohl likened Bridgers's performance to what the Foo Fighters do "when you watch us jam and freak out".

He looked back on his Nirvana days, saying "it was like every f****** night" and "my drums had holes in them from Kurt [Cobain] f****** chopping at my drums".

"I've seen enough smashed guitars," Grohl added. "Let me tell you: it feels f****** good when you do it. That's for sure."