deckofkeys 's review for:

This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan

3.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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This book confuses me as it both does and doesn’t deliver on its promise. On one hand it has heaps of info on Dave Grohl pre 2011. On the other hand it has even more info on the grunge punk rock metal music scenes from 1970ish up to 2011. Life and Times of Dave Grohl, I get. We gotta have some times in there. But I think the times sections overpowers the Dave sections a lot. I didn’t pick up the book because I wanted a breakdown of the history of those music genres. I wanted to read about Dave Grohl. 
So while I appreciate this book and truly did enjoy it, I also think it has no real claim to the large fine in which it prints a Foo Fighters song.