When Grohl and the Foos began working on a cover of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” – which they ended up performing with Astley himself – they noticed a startling resemblance to another song.Īt the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, the band decided to play “Never Gonna Give You Up” after noticing that Astley was on the line-up. So I started writing all these moody, whispery songs.”

I would spend all night playing guitar, but I had to be quiet because I didn’t want to wake him up. Kurt would go sleep and go in his room and I’d just be, like, sitting there. That’s a little weird, but you find chords that you otherwise would never find. “I would play Kurt’s guitar, and Kurt left-handed, so I learned how to play the guitar upside down. “When I had just joined Nirvana, I didn’t have a guitar,” Grohl recalls.

Grohl wrote a batch of pre-Foos songs – including “Friend of a Friend,” which ended up on his band’s 2005 album In Your Honor – in Olympia, Washington, as his roommate, Kurt Cobain, slept in an adjacent bedroom. Just to get it back.’ His therapist also encouraged him to play drums, which Grohl partially credits for his recovery. So it was three or four hours a day for six months. If you don’t, you’ll be walking with a cane.’ It fucking freaked me out.

If you do what I tell you to do, you’ll be able to run around with your kids. And when I first met the physical therapist he basically said, the first words out of his mouth, ‘This is a lot worse than you think. “I was like, put a cast on it, and I’ll be up and around in a month. “I still think I’m fucking 18 years old, as most aging men do,” Grohl says. When Grohl broke his leg in a 2015 stage accident, the injury turned out to be far more serious than he first imagined. And then the more I thought about it, am I really gonna invite my uncle to see me play when there’s like fake blood and cum shooting all over the place? ” At the time Gwar was a band that would draw like 700 people, right? Which is huge. As drummer, you don’t want something that covers your face fully. And he’s like, it’s great, and you get to design your own costume. And I talked to their guitar player Dewey about it. “GWAR were looking for a drummer,” says Grohl. Here’s more from Grohl:īack when he was a teenage drum prodigy living in the suburbs of Washington D.C., Grohl was in serious contention to join GWAR as a drummer – and even started designing the costume he’d have to wear. In his interviews with Rolling Stone for Foo Fighters’ new cover story, as well as in his book, due October 4th, the Foo Fighters frontman shared memories that ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking. You don’t have to spend too long with Dave Grohl to realize why he called his new memoir The Storyteller.

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