"I don't think there's anything wrong with rock at all. It's overlooked. And right now, the current musical climate is not unlike it was back in 1991, right before Nirvana got popular.
"The late '80s was full of over-produced pop that kids had nothing to grab hold of – they had no way of connecting to this hair metal band singing about fucking strippers in a limousine on Sunset Boulevard."
To a certain extent, this is pure nonsense of course. The reason is that in the late 1980s, early 1990s a scene developed in Seattle and in 2012, no such scene exists. While it is much easier to get your music recorded and released today, it is very, very difficult to get it heard.
I was claiming rock was dead in 1980 but actually, it was just a question of semantics. Rock was by far the dominant musical form, so the word lost its meaning. Essentially, it rock was pop music. And this is quite as true in the late 1980s as it was in the early 1980s. Hair metal might or might not have sucked but it was definably loud electric guitars plus back beat. Drake definitely is not.
So without a movement and without a popular sound, how does Grohl figure is going to have a rock revival movement spearheaded by ANYONE.