![]() ![]() ![]() Grohl’s mother taught at the high school that he dropped out of. I wake up every day feeling just like I did when I was 10 years old.” “It wasn't just a hobby, it was more of an obsession,” he says. That’s when he realized he could learn songs by ear. One day, Grohl picked up an old guitar and started playing. And his father, a classically trained flutist, worked on Capitol Hill as a speechwriter. His mother was a public school teacher who sang in an acapella group in the ‘50s. Grohl started his career in music as a skinny kid from Virginia, a mama's boy from a broken home who practiced drums on his pillows holding the sticks backward. “I'll forever be honored to have been a part,” he says. The musician writes that he’s aware people will always know him as the drummer from Nirvana. Grohl writes about his life - from being a regular at the White House to Saturday Night Live - in his new memoir, “ The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.” And Grohl started the Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain's heartbreaking suicide in 1994. The band’s iconic album “Nevermind” came out 30 years ago last month. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS) This article is more than 1 year old.ĭave Grohl only spent three and a half years drumming for Nirvana - but he says it felt like a lifetime. Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters performs onstage during the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on Sept. ![]()
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