Dave Grohl explains how music — and a hitchhiker wearing a Kurt Cobain t-shirt — helped him heal
Dave Grohl only spent three and a half years drumming for Nirvana — but he says it felt like a lifetime.
The band’s iconic album “Nevermind” came out 30 years ago last month. And Grohl started the Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain’s heartbreaking suicide in 1994. 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.”
The musician writes that he’s aware people will always know him as the drummer from Nirvana.
“I’ll forever be honored to have been a part,” he says.
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. His mother was a public school teacher who sang in an acapella group in the ‘50s. And his father, a classically trained flutist, worked on Capitol Hill as a speechwriter.
One day, Grohl picked up an old guitar and started playing. That’s when he realized he could learn songs by ear.
“It wasn’t
