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”. His musical mantra, “Never erase, always record,” also applies in the literary realm, where self-editing is a surefire creativity killer.Famously personable, Grohl is an engaging raconteur, albeit one with a spectacularly potty mouth. Grohl seemed genuinely tickled to find himself in this new role as an author - and, whether he realizes it or not, he now has solid wisdom to offer fellow ink-stained wretches. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list and is now in its second week at the top of the chart. But at some point, you just have to stop and let it stew.” “I got 350 pages in and I hadn’t even mentioned the Foo Fighters yet, a band I’ve been in for 26 years,” he said, adding, “When you’re making a huge pot of chili, you could sit there pouring spices into it all day long.
That’s what happened as I was writing these stories: I started to realize what was the first song, what was the last song, what was Side A, what was Side B, what I needed, what I didn’t have, what I had too much of.”Įventually, Grohl had to make peace with the fact that his memoir couldn’t accommodate every anecdote he wanted to include. You start to hear the tone of the album, and then it’s a matter of finding the perfect sequence from beginning to end. The experience wasn’t all that different from what he’s been doing for more than three decades: “When you make a record, you have a collection of songs. “Once I realized the pandemic was going to last a while, that’s when I approached my manager and said, ‘Hey, maybe it’s time to write a book,’” he recalled. “I panicked and started an Instagram page called and I began writing in this short story format.” Grohl made a list of experiences he wanted to explore, including “jamming with Bowie or Prince,” his audition for Nirvana and the time he got hit in the head with a golf club when he was a kid. “When the pandemic hit, I was suddenly left with nothing to do and that scared the out of me,” he said in a phone interview. SMELLS LIKE A SMASH HIT How does a musician become a best-selling author? For Dave Grohl - frontman of the Foo Fighters, formerly of Nirvana - the evolution started in an unlikely place.
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