The duet Dave Grohl always wanted to put together: “I was this close”If there’s one thing Dave Grohl understands more than most, it’s what it takes to achieve a good, stadium-ready rock tune. “I’m not the greatest communicator,” Grohl revealed to The Guardian, “I might be able to hold a conversation, but maybe not often able to say the thing that I really want to say. In his world, anything works if you’re ambitious enough, and lucky for the rock world, Grohl is certainly an overachiever in that department. “I was this fucking close to getting them on a record,” Grohl told The Sun, “I thought it was going to happen, it would’ve been fucking huge. [Manilow] was the first person who said he’d do it, but was the last we tracked down.