what do you do when all your enemies are friends?
The best part about having a newsletter is being able to write about anything you want! Anything! What a weird concept. And you all don't have to read it, but once a week, it comes into your little inboxes (or big inboxes, idk how many emails you haven't read yet) and either you skim this while rolling your eyes or sit down with a cup of coffee and enjoy whatever silly little words I have decided to string together!!!
And this week I want to talk about Dave Grohl.
So eons ago, I saw a clip of Dave Grohl talking about why his daughters don't care that he's a rock star - to them, he's just dad and when they demand smoothies, they want SMOOTHIES, and I was like "huh that's funny, I'm going to think about this for the rest of my life apparently."
Without realizing it, I'd already had consumed a lot of his music. As we already discussed in an earlier newsletter, I got a lot of rock and roll from Guitar Hero 2, and within it were such classics as "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana and "Monkey Wrench" by the Foo Fighters. Did I know that this was the same person as who played drums/guitar in those songs? No! But I kicked ass at Guitar Hero and really enjoyed the songs.
But then stories about him kept coming up in my periphery. There was the story of him falling off a stage and coming back to perform while on a throne, which you know - weird! Funny but so weird! There was him throwing someone out of a concert because they were fighting (which went viral again after last summer's horrific concert). And then last year, there was a girl who challenged him to a drum off, and he conceded and then invited her to his concert to play! Which is just like wow! This dude is really kind of awesome! I wonder if there's anything I'm missing about him.
So last year he put out a memoir of stories that he wanted to tell. He'd already been telling the stories on Instagram and an agent was like "hold up, we can sell these instead of giving them away for free" and the rest is history. And so, knowing about him tangentially, I grabbed a copy of the audiobook and settled in.
AND WELL I AM WRITING AN ENTIRE NEWSLETTER ABOUT HIM SO I GUESS YOU CAN SEE HOW IT WENT.
Fam, Dave Grohl isn't just cool, he's like awesome personified. He's met SO many rock legends - his daughters played piano with Paul McCartney, he's rocked with Prince, Tom Petty, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails, and honestly so many more I can't even count. He's been on SNL more than any other musician, The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Oscars, The Grammys (where he's won 16 times!), The White House (including the casual "bring your family" July 4th cookout!), and more. He's been in MULTIPLE movies, including the weird ass horror movie that just came out called Studio 666, which his band made because why not? And like throughout it all, he's just so incredibly... nice?!
Throughout the book, he really talks about how he just kept practicing and practicing (he started playing on pillows because they couldn't afford a drum set), and he ended up following his passion instead of idk, going into business (*cough*). And he kept trying and practicing and because he was so damn nice but also really good at what he did, he gained the attention of so many other musicians who all wanted to rock with him. And the entire book, he talks about how he's still awed that all of this is happening to him!
But then there's the family side and dammit! He's pretty cool there too! The one story that will stick with me is that he realized he was going to miss his second daughter's father daughter dance (at like a community event) because he had a show in Australia. So what he did was he pushed back the show, flew home, did the dance, and then flew back all within like 48 hours. Somehow, he ended up getting food poisoning, but the show must go on, so he soldiered through it and then when it was over slept for like a day. He recounted the story for his daughter who was like "lmao dad you're ridic... but if you hadn't come I would've been so mad."
LIKE WHAT? Besides the cost of fuel and the the annoyance to your fans, he realized that his daughter would've been so sad if he missed it so he did what he could to make sure she had an experience she could remember. Ignore me, just tears in my eyes.
Also if you don't believe that he's cool from all the other stuff I said, YouTube has been serving up Dave Grohl videos so my entire recommendations page is just him, so let me give you a few options. But one is him on Hot Ones (if you don't know, people get interviewed while eating hot wings. Idris Elba started like crying and choking during his interview while trying to get to the hottest wing). During the episode, Dave brings drinks so they can take shots every few wings, but when they get to the last one (spoilers, if you're going to watch!), Dave admits that the hottest wing isn't that bad because he routinely drinks the hottest sauce sometimes after rehearsal cause why not! WHAT THE FUCK DUDE.
He was also on Desus and Mero where they asked the age old question - why do Black people love Dave Grohl? But truly it's just because he's not only super cool and down to earth and has been through it all and stayed humble but like! He's human! He's nice! And the hilarious moment when Dave and Mero start singing a BeeGees song and Desus gets worried for copyright and Dave is like "I'll call Barry, it's all good." LIKE WHAT A FLEX. WHAT A GUY.
Honestly I could say so much more but I've already written over 1000 words??? About him!? Wow. Look, I highly recommend his book The Storyteller because it's funny, and it's insightful, and it's a delightfully good read. But also like, it made me think a lot about how things could be different if we were able to follow our passions and have the time to practice. I'm not saying things were super easy for him from the start (lmao the van his first band traveled in sounded like a torture device??), but he kept working at it, which is more than a lot of people can say.
Anyway, I'll leave you with a video of him last year playing drums for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Recs!
And this week I want to talk about Dave Grohl.
So eons ago, I saw a clip of Dave Grohl talking about why his daughters don't care that he's a rock star - to them, he's just dad and when they demand smoothies, they want SMOOTHIES, and I was like "huh that's funny, I'm going to think about this for the rest of my life apparently."
Without realizing it, I'd already had consumed a lot of his music. As we already discussed in an earlier newsletter, I got a lot of rock and roll from Guitar Hero 2, and within it were such classics as "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana and "Monkey Wrench" by the Foo Fighters. Did I know that this was the same person as who played drums/guitar in those songs? No! But I kicked ass at Guitar Hero and really enjoyed the songs.
But then stories about him kept coming up in my periphery. There was the story of him falling off a stage and coming back to perform while on a throne, which you know - weird! Funny but so weird! There was him throwing someone out of a concert because they were fighting (which went viral again after last summer's horrific concert). And then last year, there was a girl who challenged him to a drum off, and he conceded and then invited her to his concert to play! Which is just like wow! This dude is really kind of awesome! I wonder if there's anything I'm missing about him.
So last year he put out a memoir of stories that he wanted to tell. He'd already been telling the stories on Instagram and an agent was like "hold up, we can sell these instead of giving them away for free" and the rest is history. And so, knowing about him tangentially, I grabbed a copy of the audiobook and settled in.
AND WELL I AM WRITING AN ENTIRE NEWSLETTER ABOUT HIM SO I GUESS YOU CAN SEE HOW IT WENT.
Fam, Dave Grohl isn't just cool, he's like awesome personified. He's met SO many rock legends - his daughters played piano with Paul McCartney, he's rocked with Prince, Tom Petty, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails, and honestly so many more I can't even count. He's been on SNL more than any other musician, The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Oscars, The Grammys (where he's won 16 times!), The White House (including the casual "bring your family" July 4th cookout!), and more. He's been in MULTIPLE movies, including the weird ass horror movie that just came out called Studio 666, which his band made because why not? And like throughout it all, he's just so incredibly... nice?!
Throughout the book, he really talks about how he just kept practicing and practicing (he started playing on pillows because they couldn't afford a drum set), and he ended up following his passion instead of idk, going into business (*cough*). And he kept trying and practicing and because he was so damn nice but also really good at what he did, he gained the attention of so many other musicians who all wanted to rock with him. And the entire book, he talks about how he's still awed that all of this is happening to him!
But then there's the family side and dammit! He's pretty cool there too! The one story that will stick with me is that he realized he was going to miss his second daughter's father daughter dance (at like a community event) because he had a show in Australia. So what he did was he pushed back the show, flew home, did the dance, and then flew back all within like 48 hours. Somehow, he ended up getting food poisoning, but the show must go on, so he soldiered through it and then when it was over slept for like a day. He recounted the story for his daughter who was like "lmao dad you're ridic... but if you hadn't come I would've been so mad."
LIKE WHAT? Besides the cost of fuel and the the annoyance to your fans, he realized that his daughter would've been so sad if he missed it so he did what he could to make sure she had an experience she could remember. Ignore me, just tears in my eyes.
Also if you don't believe that he's cool from all the other stuff I said, YouTube has been serving up Dave Grohl videos so my entire recommendations page is just him, so let me give you a few options. But one is him on Hot Ones (if you don't know, people get interviewed while eating hot wings. Idris Elba started like crying and choking during his interview while trying to get to the hottest wing). During the episode, Dave brings drinks so they can take shots every few wings, but when they get to the last one (spoilers, if you're going to watch!), Dave admits that the hottest wing isn't that bad because he routinely drinks the hottest sauce sometimes after rehearsal cause why not! WHAT THE FUCK DUDE.
He was also on Desus and Mero where they asked the age old question - why do Black people love Dave Grohl? But truly it's just because he's not only super cool and down to earth and has been through it all and stayed humble but like! He's human! He's nice! And the hilarious moment when Dave and Mero start singing a BeeGees song and Desus gets worried for copyright and Dave is like "I'll call Barry, it's all good." LIKE WHAT A FLEX. WHAT A GUY.
Honestly I could say so much more but I've already written over 1000 words??? About him!? Wow. Look, I highly recommend his book The Storyteller because it's funny, and it's insightful, and it's a delightfully good read. But also like, it made me think a lot about how things could be different if we were able to follow our passions and have the time to practice. I'm not saying things were super easy for him from the start (lmao the van his first band traveled in sounded like a torture device??), but he kept working at it, which is more than a lot of people can say.
Anyway, I'll leave you with a video of him last year playing drums for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Recs!
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