Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!') I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand.

Hopefully one of these shows was filmed for streaming services a la Springsteen On Broadway on Netflix, or Grohl realizes that as much as the world needs the connection he spoke of from seeing the Foo Fighters play to tens of thousands of fans, the world benefits just as much from hearing his inspiring stories told as only one of rock's great stadium rockers turned storyteller can tell them.The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 His talk about his parents, including his devotion to his mother and complicated relationships with his father, also deeply personal, moving and offered a lot of insight into how Dave Grohl the child who, according to him, looked like someone from the '80s film Revenge Of The Nerds, went on to be Dave Grohl, one of the biggest rock icons in the world. Grohl is a true music historian and fan, so listening to him geek out about punk rock fascinating. However, his yarns about listening to '70s AM gold - Phoebe Snow, Andrew Gold, Gerry Rafferty - every bit as interesting (and please someone make a playlist from this book, his musical reference points amazing!!). Obviously his talking about Cobain and the dire consequences of fame was haunting and sadly spot on. The three-hour journey worked as a complete story, even if Grohl, by his own telling, had 20 minutes to squeeze in the last 20 years near the end thanks to curfew, so it's hard to select certain stories as standouts. That success didn't automatically preclude having a home. This was a well-produced stage show, one that relied solely on Grohl's ability to entertain you with his life's journey, from being a little kid hearing the Beatles to becoming a dad and figuring out, while at Young's house, that you could have music and family. This wasn't a guy going up there reading some stories from a book. Because his pacing, his delivery, the way he paused, the performance, the authenticity, the honesty, the emotion were a revelation.

Turns out Grohl might need to be the next rock star, after Springsteen, to hit Broadway.

But hearing him talk about the impact Kurt Cobain's death had on him, about being an outcast in Springfield, Virginia, joining Scream, playing with Iggy Pop in Toronto one night, were dazzling. But the songs were less than ten percent of the show, and honestly they were the least interesting part of the night, because Grohl's stories were that compelling.

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