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Dave Grohl

Jo chats to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl about his new book The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.

Jo chats to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl about his new book The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.

Dave explains: 鈥淪o, I鈥檝e written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (鈥業t鈥檚 a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!鈥�), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I鈥檝e recorded and can鈥檛 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.

This certainly doesn鈥檛 mean that I鈥檓 quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it鈥檚 like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. 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鈥he list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.鈥�

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Music Played

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    Die On The Dancefloor

    • Near Life Experience Part Two.
    • Warner Records.

  • Jamie T

    Sticks 'N' Stones

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.

  • Foo Fighters

    Love Dies Young

    • Medicine At Midnight.
    • Columbia.
    • 9.

  • Caribou

    You Can Do It

    • You Can Do It.
    • City Slang.
    • 1.

  • Bettye Swann

    Make Me Yours

    • 30th Birthday Celebration: Soul And Funk.
    • Ace Records Ltd..

  • Orla Gartland

    Does Your Mother Know (Radio 2 Session, 28 Sept 2021)

  • Gabriels

    Blame

  • Blur

    To The End

  • Lorde

    Secrets From A Girl (Who's Seen It All)

    • Solar Power.
    • Universal Music New Zealand Limited.
    • 6.

  • Jeff Buckley

    Hallelujah

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Sep 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2