the storyteller tales of life and music dave grohl

Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl to read bedtime story on CBeebies - and parents are overjoyed.Comedian Daniel Sloss' book reads exactly like his dark comedy.It moves on to an affectionate and mostly sanitised version of the underground punk scene where a young Grohl learns to embrace his individuality and finds his tribe.

The structure of The Storyteller is resolutely non-linear, which works well except for a weird and slightly distracting use of a font to emphasise things in a way that feels oddly jarring.Įarly chapters cover his childhood, including his first foray into playing live when his mum asks him to jam as a drummer at a jazz club they go to on her birthday as a gift and he gets bitten by a bug that completely changes the course of his life.

I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.Just when you think rock legend and professional overachiever Dave Grohl can't excel at anything else, he casually bashes out an autobiography just in time to top music-lovers' Christmas lists everywhere.įorget trying to summon up the energy to work out with Joe Wicks, learning to bake banana bread or binge watching Tiger King like the rest of us, when arguably the most prolific man in music got a bit twitchy about the unexpected down time of Covid he decided to knock out The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - almost 400 pages about his life so far.Īnd, as you'd expect from 'that guy from Nirvana' who defied all expectation to become a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it's incredibly readable and a lot of fun. 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. 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. 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. 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 storyteller tales of life and music dave grohl