![]() The only other person he ever met who did this? Kurt Cobain. As he’d walk to school as a teenager, he ‘played’ his teeth like a full drumkit, and even put on a dental performance of Rush tracks for his dentist. Both Dave and Kurt played drums with their teethĭave was born with a natural biological metronome, in his molars. Almost 30 years later, on the ‘Wasted Light’ tour, Sandi did indeed show up in a Foo Fighters front row – flipping him the finger. Dumped by Sandi, his girlfriend of about a week – the anguish from which has driven him to exorcise his heartbreak through songwriting ever since, he claims – he had a dream in which he was playing to an arena of adoring fans, only to spot Sandi in the front row, wracked with tears of regret. Yet aged 13 he foresaw his future as a roaring titan of stadium rock. jazz legend Lenny Robinson he largely taught himself how to play by smacking pillows along to punk albums and AC/DC. Grohl only ever had one drum lesson, from Washington, D.C. Dave’s teenage rock star premonition came true Here are the 10 most head-spinning moments. ![]() Throughout, Grohl presents himself as the ultimate fan struck lucky, gate-crashing his personal hall of heroes on the back of a deep-seated addiction to punk rock. ![]() When he isn’t dining with Paul McCartney after star-studded award shows, he’s shaming every dad on the planet by shifting Australian stadium shows to fly across the globe to be at his daughter’s school dance, only to contract food poisoning on the flight back. Bush called him “dude”.ĭave Grohl’s debut book The Storyteller is a catalogue of such unimaginable experiences, a series of beers-after-dinner tales compiled like snapshots from one of the most storied rock’n’roll lives. And the first of several White House performances, when George W. The night he was plucked from obscurity, as the teenage drummer in support band Scream, to play a launch party in Iggy Pop’s impromptu backing band. The day Elton John leapt out of a limo to greet him on Oxford Street. There was the time he got caught up in an Amsterdam squat riot between punks and fascists.
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