Grohl credits his mother with instilling this grit and work ethic in him. Even as he tells harrowing stories from his half-starved early days, when he could barely scrape up enough cash to live on convenience store corndogs, he makes it clear that his passion for music has never wavered.
In The Storyteller, Grohl describes how he worked his way up from being a music-obsessed high school dropout playing in punk bands to becoming one of the most celebrated and influential artists of the past thirty years. It’s the same feeling as completing a song.” “When I hit ‘send’ on the last story, I got really emotional because I didn’t want it to end. “It was really fulfilling-I really got into it,” he says.
“I made a list of thirty or forty stories, and it ranged from everything from blowing up my neighborhood with fireworks to meeting Little Richard to parenthood.” That list also included lots of stories about Foo Fighters, as well as Grohl’s days as the drummer for the seminal grunge band Nirvana.Īs Grohl began writing, it quickly became clear that this should be more than just a series of social media posts, so he ended up turning it into a book, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, which was published on October 5 (via Dey Street Books). “When the world shut down, I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll start an Instagram page where I write these outrageously cool experiences that I’ve had-this will give me something to do because I can’t just make lasagna every night for my kids,’” he says. While Grohl is relieved that things are getting back on track, it’s not like he’s been idle during the past year and a half. “We had been looking forward to that for a long, long time.” “I think that if anyone felt emotion in the audience, it was probably just a sliver of what we felt because it was fucking amazing,” he says. Two months later, during a call from his Los Angeles home, Grohl reflects on what that show was like for him and his bandmates. Throughout the three-hour show, there’s a palpable euphoria in the cavernous space, with many audience members crying tears of joy as they sing along. The beloved rock band kicked things off with “ Times Like These,” their 2003 hit single-and on this night, the hopeful lyrics seem particularly poignant, especially when frontman Dave Grohl sings, It’s times like these, you learn to live again. Learn more about our leadership programming.Though the music industry has taken a brutal beating during the COVID-19 pandemic, a major sign that things are bouncing back came on June 20, 2021, when the Foo Fighters re-opened New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden with a sold-out show. Meet tens of thousands of changemakers from 120 countries and 50 U.S. Sign up to get the latest news and happenings in Girl Up’s movement. Ways to Supportįind out how we inspire, educate and empower leaders across the world. Raise your voice.ĭonate or partner with us to mobilize the next generation of changemakers.
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