Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four 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 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.
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. 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. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.
‘There goes my hero, watch him as he goes, there goes my hero, he’s ordinary’
Dave Grohl is an absolute legend. This could be all I would need to say haha, but I will say a bit more. First off I’ve always loved Dave, and after reading this I love him even more. The lengths he will go to to make sure his children are his number one priority. The story he told of changing a concert date, flying from Australia to the UK, for one night, (actually it wasn’t even a night, it was a few hours), then back to Australia to do the final show the next day. All because he promised to take his girls to the daddy/daughter dance. Hes amazing.
I flitted between reading this in hardback and listening on audio, and the narration was really good. Obviously it would have been as it was read by Dave himself, and he is really funny. I loved listening to him talk about the early days of his career, I didn’t know much about it. But the Foo Fighters era was the best. Oh talking about his falls on stage, the doctor who sat with him holding his foot in place while he finished a gig, he’s got a whole load of stories to tell. I could listen to him all day.
This guy is a genuinely nice guy, and I would love to meet him 9not gonna ever happen), or even see the Foos in concert.
If you like music bios, I’d recommend this one.
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