The Storyteller
Ratings79
Average rating4.4
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Ratings79
Average rating4.4
So, I've written a book.
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 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.
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Hard to find someone who lives with their values on their sleeve more than Dave Grohl. 2nd half was fantastic as there were lots of stories about balancing his family life with his work. FRESH POTS!!
Dave Grohl is an awesome storyteller. As he tells of his encounters, jam sessions, and chance meetings with his musical heroes, you can feel his love of music and of the bands that inspired him. They are all in the book Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Pantera, Joan Jett, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and many more. Dave is a fan, just like the rest of us. He cannot believe that he is living out his rock n roll dream and I'm glad he shared the ride with us.
The Foos were a massive part of my musical awakening, sans-90s bands and 80s stuff I listened to in Mums car growing up. Dave's wild tales of musical madness, coping with stardom, forming bands, and raising daughters (lowkey love his relationship with his girls) were truly wonderful to listen to.
The fact Taylor Hawkins died as I was reading this (I was made aware of his passing mere moments after finishing the chapter on when he and Dave first met) will forever add a poignant veneer over the experience of listening to this book. I remember him being a particularly impressionable drummer on my younger brother and I as we were just starting to drum in bands as sweaty young teenagers. Truly sad.
