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Dave Grohl’s Dream Hotel Rider Item Is Really Practical, but He Couldn’t Even Have It

The Foo Fighters frontman didn’t een know he had a hotel rider, but there’s one thing he really wants on it.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Did you know that Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has a hotel rider? Well, neither did he! But now that he does, there’s one thing he wants on it, but apparently can’t even have.

The topic of “riders” came up for Grohl during an April 2026 interview on the Dish Podcast. Grohl noted that a concert “backstage rider” is very common, but now there are “hotel riders,” and he wasn’t aware that people had been keeping track of his “for the last 20 years.”

Grohl joked, “I had no clue. I was like, ‘I thought everybody gets the cheese plate in the humidifier.’ Like, what? But apparently that’s like specific…It was just [that] I had no clue.”

Dave Grohl had no idea he even had a ‘hotel........

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