It’s thrilling to watch him sit down to pulverise his drums again to a recording of Smells Like Teen Spirit, but the crack in his voice as he describes Cobain’s death betrays how devastated he was by loss of his singer and friend. “We were kids, man! How do you deal with that?” he wonders, even now.
Wide-eyed, he recalls moving at warp speed from sleeping on a couch in the Seattle hovel he shared with Kurt Cobain and a crazed turtle, to seeing their homespun band knock Michael Jackson off the top of the US charts in 1992. Grohl is at his most poignant describing his time in Nirvana. Loping around the stage, he demonstrates how he played along to Beatles songs and taught himself to drum on sofa cushions, before joining a local Virginia hardcore punk band, Scream. His enthusiasm is winning as he describes a youth in thrall to music and to US punk rock. His ability to cram a swearword into any conversation arguably peaks when he recalls a penurious childhood eating “motherfucking scrambled-egg sandwiches”. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.Famously personable, Grohl is an engaging raconteur, albeit one with a spectacularly potty mouth. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters.the list goes on.
This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!) I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music Dave Grohl € 26.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.
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