I got homesick sometimes, and maybe I would call my mother and wish for Virginia, that's where I'm from. And the music that we were making was great. Living in that tiny apartment that was pretty squalid and pretty gross was OK, as long as there was music at the end of the day. I had moved up there without having met the guys from Nirvana before, so they were strangers, and it was really the music that kept me there. On living in a squalid apartment in Seattle with Nirvana It's almost like being swaddled to sleep. And to be honest, to this day, if I'm having a hard time going to sleep - it doesn't matter if I'm at home or if I'm at the Ritz-Carlton - if I'm having a hard time going to sleep, I actually try to transport myself back to that time when I was in a sleeping bag like a sardine in the van, rolling down the highway. If not, it was perfectly fine to sleep in the van. If you're lucky, you might find someone that'll let you crash on their floor. You put the gear under the shelf and then everyone would sleep like sardines in a can in their sleeping bags.Īnd that was just kind of the way it worked, because when your per diem is $7 a day, there's no hotel rooms. You would build a platform out of plywood and make a little shell for a loft so that you could sleep in your sleeping bag on top of the gear. And so basically, back then, underground bands, most bands toured in vans that were kind of converted into a tour bus, meaning you would have to put all of the people and all of the equipment in a van and go from town to town. There were five guys in the band and my best friend Jimmy was the roadie. It doesn't matter if I'm at home or if I'm at the Ritz Carlton, if I'm having a hard time going to sleep, I actually try to transport myself back to that time when I was in a sleeping bag like a sardine in the van, rolling down the highway. Grohl's new memoir is The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

And that night after the show, we all sort of gathered together and celebrated just that, and I'm very proud of it.' 'But I did it with my friends and the people that I love, and most of us survived. 'It took me 36 years to cross that crosswalk and make it to that stadium across the street,' he says. The band gelled in 2021 they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Ī few years ago, the Foo Fighters played to a sold-out crowd at Wrigley Field in Chicago - just across the street from the dingy corner bar where Grohl had seen his first concert. Six months after Cobain's death, Grohl recorded the Foo Fighters' first album as a one-man project, only assembling the band after the record was complete. 'I didn't really know if I ever wanted to play music again, until I realized that music was the one thing that had healed me my entire life.' Nirvana catapulted to superstardom with the release of its 1991 hit ' Smells like Teen Spirit.' But just three years later, in 1994, Cobain killed himself, and Grohl considered giving up on music entirely. Those atmospheric 'river storms' already peppered across California at the very start of 2023, which led to breaching levees and ' nearly two dozen deaths.'įor more on Hope the Mission, you can see projects and stories on the nonprofit's Instagram page.Music News Man Photographed As A Baby On 'Nevermind' Cover Sues Nirvana For Sexual Exploitation 'UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said about 20% of forecast models are currently depicting a very strong and warm atmospheric river storm in California around mid-March,' the LA Times reported on Wednesday, a week after Grohl's visit to the shelter. And it seems that many more LA residents will need added support (and hot meals) in the coming month. This meant added dangers and risks for unhoused and unsheltered people. In the days following Grohl's visit, the Los Angeles area was hit with a massive amount of rain and even snow, depending on the altitude of people's neighborhoods. It often indicates a user profile.īy the looks of the photos, Grohl and his friends worked through most of the night to keep the meat cooking and then helped prep sandwiches and sides for a complete dinner plate. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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