The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't 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. Someday I’ll have to tell you the rest.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!) I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. Also, in the credits, he thanks his publisher Liate Stehlik, “who allowed me the honor of telling my story (or at least a tenth of it) to the world. After spending much of the book telling stories about being the father of three daughters, the youngest two don’t get their fair share of page worthy stories. And I have a feeling there will be at least one more book to follow this one. This book will definitely leave you wanting more. In 375 pages, Grohl covers a lot of ground, but leaves so many things untold.
Along those same lines, you won’t be forced to read through endless tales of his sexual conquests, but you’ll learn how much he loves and respects his mother. Imagine Paul McCartney playing piano with your three year old or Joan Jett reading her a bedtime story! And Dave tells the stories so humbly that (unlike other rocker memoirs) it doesn’t come off as bragging.
The book is filled with stories of meeting his musical idols and how he himself turns into a ‘fan’ upon coming face to face with them.Īs a doting father, Dave also tells of the excitement he feels when he gets to introduce his daughters to rock royalty. So, if you’re looking for Paul McCartney stories, he doesn’t disappoint. The gory details of him falling off the stage and breaking his leg?…yes!įor those of my readers that may are not aware, Dave Grohl was the original drummer for Nirvana and the founder of the Foo Fighters and he is a huge Beatles and Paul McCartney fan. The suggestion that he may have been abducted by aliens?…yes! When and who Dave lost his virginity too?…no. The grungy little details about Kurt Cobain?…no. Is this book everything you think and expect it to be? Well…yes and no! But now that my load has been lifted (I work as a temp, but have decided not to take any new jobs this month), I finished it in two days…something that any sane person could have done with the entire book! I actually let it sit HALF READ on the end table next to my couch for a month! Oh…the humanity…I hang my head in shame. Publishing, October 2021) by Dave Grohl the respect that it deserves. Unfortunately, I didn’t give The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music(Dey St.
0 kommentar(er)
