The Dave Grohl Story Nirvana – Foo Fighters Paperback Biography Bio Book
Paperback Best Seller
by Jeff Apter
Teenage punk, self-taught musician, bandleader, session man, smoker, drinker, multi-millionaire, David Grohl has achieved a rare feat, a rock ‘n’ roll double crown having been a member of two hugely successful and influential bands – Nirvana and The Foo Fighters.
Loaded with candid interviews and hard truths about Grohl’s life in music, this is the first comprehensive biography of an icon whose career charts rock and roll’s rise and fall over the past two decades.
Detailing his drumming and touring with Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails and his legal battle over Nirvana’s legacy with Courtney Love, this is a no-holds-barred account of a career and life at the very top. Grohl’s powerhouse drumming, anthemic riffing and melodic brilliance have proved both thrilling and enduring, and he remains one of rock’s most respected figures.
“To my dearest honcho, love Dave.” — Grohl autograph for author, 2002
ANYBODY with a passing involvement in modern music has at least one Dave Grohl story. This is not surprising, really, given that Grohl — the lucky man that he quite readily admits to being — has had two juicy bites of the rock’n’roll cherry.
His first was as the lank-haired, stripped-to-the-waist tub thumper behind accidental heroes Nirvana. Led by Kurt Cobain, who in his final months seemed hell-bent on fulfilling Neil Young’s prophecy that it was “better to burn out than fade away”, Nirvana blazed bright in the early 1990s, the dawn of what would become known as the alt-rock movement. That was, of course, before Cobain, weighed down by the double whammy of a raging heroin addiction and the pressures of being an idol to millions, blew off his head in his Seattle garage in April 1994.
As it turned out, that simply marked the end of Dave Grohl Mark One.
Despite the weight of the grief he felt due to Cobain’s suicide — Grohl later confessed that his “soul went dead” for some time after Cobain pulled the trigger — he bounced back only a year later. Grohl turned a series of homemade songs, some cut during his brief stint with Nirvana, into both an album called Foo Fighters and a band of the same name.
The rest is as they say, history – and this book, “The Dave Grohl Story”, will take you on his incredible journey!
Reviews
“For fans of the Foos and Nirvana this is nothing short of essential” – Record Collector
“A well-researched and balanced portrait of this ex-‘punk pothead’ … handily doubles as an excellent overview of alternative rock in the last quarter century” – Kerrang!
Product Details
• Paperback: 277 pages
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9781846097621
• ISBN-13: 978-1846097621
• ASIN: 1846097622
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
About the Author
Jeff Apter is a celebrated international writer, working amidst the splendour that is the NSW south coast. The former Music Editor at Australian Rolling Stone magazine been writing about music and popular culture since the late 1980s and at last count, has written more than 30 books. As the Music Editor at Australian Rolling Stone, Jeff Apter wrote hundreds of features and reviews and spent many hours with such icons as Shirley Manson, Dave Grohl, Moby, Patti Smith, Frank Black and Lucinda Williams. His work has appeared in dozen of publications, including the much-lauded website Rock’s Back Pages.
