Here are some highlights from that conversation.Īmerican-Statesman: In the introduction, you explained that this book grew out of the pandemic and suddenly finding yourself not playing shows. punk band Scream and Seattle legends Nirvana, the mid-’90s rise of Foo Fighters, his visits to Austin over the years, and more. We spoke with Grohl for an hour about the book, his early days in D.C. I thought, oh no, it's over? I guess that is the tip of the iceberg. “When I hit send on that last story in the book, I was sad. I don't know how to write a (expletive) book!”įOO FIGHTERS: Review of the band's 2015 ACL Fest setīut now that it’s done, “The Storyteller” ($29.99, Dey Street) might just be the first of many volumes. “It was so much fun, and I can't wait to do more,” he said. “Plus, as with everything I do, I had no clue how to do it. “I knew what I didn't want to do: I didn't want to write a formulaic, chronological, logistical, informational account of the last 52 years of my life,” he says. Less a formal memoir than a collection of stories that weave together like a patchwork quilt, “The Storyteller” is Grohl’s first book. So it had more to do with what it feels like to lose someone, and how you process that.” Their emotional relevances in my life are different, but equally as strong. With Kurt, I was in a band with him for three and a half years. We lived two blocks away from each other in Virginia. “With my friend Jimmy, I’d known him since I was 6 years old. MORE: Dave Grohl reflects about past visits to Austin Is it how strong the bond was, or how deep you brought them into your lives? Instead of writing a detailed description or account of those few days, that whole piece was about what determines the depth of your sadness when you lose someone. "I also knew what people wanted me to write, and I avoided that. “I was scared to open up and write about that experience. “That was the last story I wrote, because it was the hardest,” Grohl told me in a Zoom interview last month. But he captures the emotional impact of that moment in a uniquely personal way, by contrasting it with the loss of his childhood friend Jimmy Swanson in 2008. Grohl doesn’t go into specifics most everything has been told in other Nirvana books already. Midway through “The Storyteller,” Dave Grohl’s new 384-page book in which he shares memories across his decades of life as a musician, we reach the part where Kurt Cobain dies. Watch Video: Dave Grohl on inviting people to play with Foo Fighters at concerts
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