He sensed when they left to record it that they'd never return to that apartment, but no one could anticipate their explosive success. Grohl lived in a ragged apartment with Cobain as the band prepared material for what would be its breakthrough “Nevermind” album. And she said, 'sometimes you have to do what's best for you,' which was funny because her entire life was devoted to other people as a schoolteacher and a mother.” “I called my mother and said, ‘I’m not sure what to do,'” Grohl recalled in an interview. But he was loyal, and conflicted when he got an invitation to come to Seattle in 1990 and jam with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. His time as the drummer in Scream, the Washington-area punk band that Grohl left high school to drum for, was winding down. As he writes in “The Storyteller,” she was influential in him joining Nirvana. In fact, he counts his mother Virginia as one of his best friends. Call it the typical tale of a high school dropout who becomes the drummer in Nirvana, then after unspeakable tragedy transformed himself into the singer, songwriter and guitarist for a band that sells out arenas.Īnd, at age 52, he still listens to his mom. Grohl had no shortage of material when he decided to spend much of his enforced downtime writing a book called “The Storyteller,” on sale Tuesday.
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