Dave Grohl The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Image: Dey Street Books) Honestly this is something I wish had occurred to me before we bought my kid this drum set that takes up half of his bedroom. He was greatly influenced by heavy metal and the DIY Punk scene coming out of DC in the early 80s, and taught himself to drum by playing his bed pillows. Divided into five, loosely organized sections, stories about Adult Dave are intertwined with formative episodes from his youth. The book careens through various scenes in Grohl’s life at the same breakneck speed he roams the stage at Foo Fighters shows. When you read Grohl’s memoir The Storyteller it is immediately evident that a life without music was never in the cards for this manic pixie drummer dude. But make more music? How could he? HOW COULD HE? Taken up teaching, or meditation, or something. But after Nirvana helped flip the 90’s music scene on its head and then Kurt Cobain died in that horribly tragic way that broke so many hearts, it felt like something of a betrayal for Dave Grohl to go and do something that was so….popular? Good? Not-Nirvana? How could he possibly think musical lightening would strike twice? He should have just puttered off into the mists of the Northwest like Krist Novoselic. On the contrary, they consistently churn out some good rock n’ roll. Not because they’re a bad band, or make bad music. I’ve been successfully ignoring the Foo Fighters for about 26 years now. Dave Grohl on the back cover of The Storyteller (Image: Dey Street Books)
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