Last summer exploded with heavy participation in ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos with Dave Grohl's being one of the most memorable. During the Webby Awards, the Foo Fighters front man honored the viral awareness campaign and Pat Quinn, one of its co-founders.
Grohl recollected the creation of his personal ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video in which he imitated the bucket-of-blood scene in Carrie. Fellow musician and friend, Zac Brown, used a fire truck to soak himself and his band mates, notes Rolling Stone. After having nominated Grohl, naturally, the rocker needed to one-up the country competition. "I couldn't f-cking believe nobody had done the Carrie thing yet - it's like the most famous bucket-on-the-head scene of all time!" Grohl explained. "And I'm the f-cking genius that actually got to it first."
Grohl continued to tell the story of the Ice Bucket Challenge formation, using his common comical and silly persona throughout the otherwise serious situation. Between acknowledging that his speech was written for him and exclaiming "there's not enough swearing in this," Grohl revealed the imperative message that the challenge reeled in over $220 million to battle ALS and swept the world with an abundance of awareness.
A video depicting the rise of the Ice Bucket Challenge followed, focusing on the true importance of the movement and not commercial crazes. "Trends happen quickly on the Internet and it's easy to get distracted by a really awesome video of a monkey washing a cat," Grohl said. "But we can't unlearn what we've learned. One, we need to continue the fight until we defeat ALS. And two, the Internet is the most powerful megaphone we have to make sure that that message is heard."
The speech concluded as Grohl presented Quinn, the ALS activist currently fighting the disease and co-founder of the challenge, reports USA Today. He then uttered his acceptance speech of five resilient words, "Every August until a Cure."
