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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
by Dave Grohl
I've never been a huge Dave Grohl fan, but always had respect given his Nirvana days. What person who was a teen in the 90s doesn't have a little place in their heart for Nirvana? I saw the Foo Fighters perform as part of a festival a few years back and they were great live. Listening to this audiobook he is a great storyteller.
I really enjoyed his stories from his early days of how he got into and made his way in music. I would have loved more Nirvana days stories That time was a bit glossed over, and not a word about Courtney. Where's the gossip? Am sure that was intentional or she wouldn't approve anything.
I also wasn't aware of all the renown he had among other great musicians (he was asked to be a Heartbreaker and turned it down?!). His mention of his friendship with Paul McCartney kept popping up over and over. Perhaps a bit of name dropping bragging, but done in a way of him more in awe of his own super lucky life of getting to meet and make music with so many great people.
Other than the fact this was not really a bio (I went to wikipedia to learn more about him) and didn't include perhaps some of the gossip one really wants, there were a couple small things that annoyed me a bit. First, he completely kind of whined and didn't really take responsibility for his drunk driving incident. He was technically over the limit, and he just waved it off like, whatever I didn't feel drunk and was on a scooter. Given how much he talks about his love for his family, I found this very irresponsible to basically say haha I got off paying less than my suit, when he could have been killed if hit by another car on the road, or killed someone. I'll add he was also very nonchalant about other things- rescheduling a sold out arena to go to his daughters' dance, when at the end of that it seemed like it was only a day or two before the end of his tour- why not change the date of the daughters' dance? It likely would have affected less people and been healthier.
Second, it really needed a better editor. As it really was just a book of stories, likely for flow they were not always chronological. It would have been helpful to add a year or some other marker at the start of each story. Additionally sometimes the story had some information that had already been said in another story. It would just kind of ruin the flow, for example he was talking about his joy of his daughter being born, then next story talking about a girlfriend. Then back to a repeated but if information about his daughter's birth.
But overall it was a fun read, I definitely recommend listening to him read the audiobook.
I really enjoyed his stories from his early days of how he got into and made his way in music. I would have loved more Nirvana days stories That time was a bit glossed over, and not a word about Courtney. Where's the gossip? Am sure that was intentional or she wouldn't approve anything.
I also wasn't aware of all the renown he had among other great musicians (he was asked to be a Heartbreaker and turned it down?!). His mention of his friendship with Paul McCartney kept popping up over and over. Perhaps a bit of name dropping bragging, but done in a way of him more in awe of his own super lucky life of getting to meet and make music with so many great people.
Other than the fact this was not really a bio (I went to wikipedia to learn more about him) and didn't include perhaps some of the gossip one really wants, there were a couple small things that annoyed me a bit. First, he completely kind of whined and didn't really take responsibility for his drunk driving incident. He was technically over the limit, and he just waved it off like, whatever I didn't feel drunk and was on a scooter. Given how much he talks about his love for his family, I found this very irresponsible to basically say haha I got off paying less than my suit, when he could have been killed if hit by another car on the road, or killed someone. I'll add he was also very nonchalant about other things- rescheduling a sold out arena to go to his daughters' dance, when at the end of that it seemed like it was only a day or two before the end of his tour- why not change the date of the daughters' dance? It likely would have affected less people and been healthier.
Second, it really needed a better editor. As it really was just a book of stories, likely for flow they were not always chronological. It would have been helpful to add a year or some other marker at the start of each story. Additionally sometimes the story had some information that had already been said in another story. It would just kind of ruin the flow, for example he was talking about his joy of his daughter being born, then next story talking about a girlfriend. Then back to a repeated but if information about his daughter's birth.
But overall it was a fun read, I definitely recommend listening to him read the audiobook.