Dave Grohl shares excerpt from upcoming book, The Storyteller
Ahead of the release of his new book The Storyteller in October, Dave Grohl has shared a huuuuuge excerpt detailing his journey into punk, and how he discovered the recipe to make it in rock’n’roll himself. Entitled ‘Tracey is a punk rocker’, the Foo Fighters frontman recalls in an almost 3,000-word segment of the book how his “ultra-cool cousin Tracey” (who isn’t actually related to Dave) had transformed into a “postapocalyptic superhero” between their usual summer meetings back in the day, with her “shiny Doc Marten boots, black bondage pants, an Anti-Pasti T‑shirt, and a shaved head” inspiring something he’d never felt before when he was just 13 years old. Tracey then took Dave to his first-ever gig at Chicago’s Cubby Bear to see Naked Raygun, the exper...
