As you’ve already established, the ‘dance’ segment from the recent 2012 Grammys crammed its share of eyebrow-raisers into seven minutes and 41 seconds. There was David Guetta’s DJ miming, the uneasy comeback of Chris Brown, Deadmau5 ‘live remixing’ the Foo Fighters and, best of all, Dave Grohl self-consciously head-nodding to Raise Your Weapon.

For many keyboard warriors, though, the ceremony’s definitive clunker came from Grohl in his acceptance speech for Best Rock Performance. The Foos frontman took the stage to praise “the human element” in music – i.e. what doesn’t “go on in a computer” – which sounded to some like a slur against America’s current darling, electronic music. Cue several articles and blog posts about how out of touch the rock curmudgeon is. Perhaps surprisingly, Grohl has responded with a statement to clear the air, quipping: “Never has a 33 second acceptance rant evoked such caps-lock postboard rage as my lil’ ode to analog recording has.”

You can read the full spiel here, but Grohl gives it up to “ALL kinds of music, from Kyuss to Kraftwerk, Pinetop Perkins to Prodigy, Dead Kennedys to Deadmau5.” What he meant was that “with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years [imperfections in studio recordings] became easily ‘fixed’. The end result? In my humble opinion…a lot of music that sounds perfect, but lacks personality.” Not an affront against all electronic music, then – hardly surprising given that joint performance with Deadmau5.

“I don’t know how to do what Skrillex does (though I fucking love it) but I do know that the reason he is so loved is because he sounds like Skrillex, and that’s badass,” Grohl adds of his fellow Grammys success story. “We have a different process and a different set of tools, but the ‘craft’ is equally as important, I’m sure. I mean…if it were that easy, anyone could do it, right? (See what I did there?)”.