It was April 8th 1994 when Dave Grohl received the tragic phone call: Kurt Cobainfriend and colleague, it was shot in the head at his home on Lake Washington, a Seattle. A devastating news that led to the immediate dissolution of his band, i Nirvanaof which Dave was indeed drummer. “Actually, I had received it a month earlier a call from Rome where they told me that Kurt it was dead“.
“My knees gave out and I was done lying on the floor cryingRecalled the American musician in his memoir The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. “Shortly after, in what it was for me the darkest day of lifeanother call came: Kurt was still alive and maybe he would be survived“. So it was, but a few weeks after the nightmare it materialized again. This time really.
Excruciating pain, which forced Dave to turn the pageprofessionally speaking: «Many groups asked me to join them but I could never have done it, ”he told in 2018 a Louder. “Every time that I sat in front of the drums, reminded me of the times with Nirvana. And still today Not a day goes by that you don’t think about Kurt“. Thus, in ’94, he founded i Foo Fightersinitially as solo project.
But it soon becomes band. Dave recruits Nate Mendel to the bass, Pat Smear on the guitar e William Goldsmith to the battery. The latter, after a few months, gives way to Taylor Hawkins, with which it was born a particular affinity: «Back when he was playing for Alanis Morissette, well before joining our group, we often met in the backstage of the various festivals, ”said Grohl again.
«We knew immediately that we were made for each other, the chemistry between us was like that evident that even Alanis noticed it ». Dave used to call it his “Acquired twin”, which allowed the Foo Fighters to do the breakthrough. But the two were very close even off stage, they shared crazy trips and unique experiences: “We were a little Beavis and Butt-Heada little dudes of Dumber and dumber“.
That’s why imagine yourself what went through today in Grohl’s head when they told him Hawkins had been found dead, it is almost impossible. Twenty-eight years after Cobain, another friend who leaves. Suddenly, alone 50 yearsbefore a concert a Bogota: leaves his wife Alisonthe three children, an avalanche of friends, music, i Foo Fighters. And Dave: with a new serious grief to process.
And i old ghosts that return.
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