Show’s over, folks! The band then changed their name to “Mission Impossible.”ĭave has said he did not take drumming lessons and instead learned by listening to Rush and punk rock bands. When Freak Baby kicked out its bass player and reshuffled its lineup, Davel took on the role of drummer and history was made. It was during this period that he thought it was a good idea to switch to learning drums.
While in high school, he played in several local bands, including a short stint as guitarist in a band called Freak Baby. He stayed there for two years, one of those repeating his first year.Īfter his second year, he transferred yet again to Annandale High School. His mother decided he should transfer to Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria because he was smoking too much weed and it was affecting his grades. He taught himself to play pieces of songs by punk bands like Circle Jerks and Bad Brains and, using his clout as vice president, would play them over the school intercom before his morning announcements. We went home and bought Maximumrocknroll, (a punk subculture music zine that ran from 1982 to 2019) and tried to figure it all out." In Virginia, he attended Thomas Jefferson High School as a freshman and was shockingly elected class vice-president. Grohl recalled, "From then on we were totally punk.
His first concert was Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago in 1982. Cousin Tracey introduced them to punk rock by taking the pair to shows by several different punk bands. We'd meet in the middle sometimes with Bowie and Siouxsie and the Banshees."Īt 13, Grohl and his sister spent the summer at their cousin Tracey's house in Illinois. He said, "I was going in the direction of faster, louder, darker while my sister, Lisa, three years older, was getting seriously into new wave territory. He grew tired of lessons and instead taught himself, eventually playing in bands with friends. At the age of 12, he began learning to play the guitar. When he was seven, his parents divorced, and he was raised primarily by his mom. When Dave was young, the Grohl family moved to Springfield, Virginia. In addition to being an award-winning journalist, Dave’s dad had also served as the special assistant to Republican Congressman and US Senator Robert Taft Jr. Mom is teacher Virginia Jean Hanlon and dad was news writer James Harper Grohl. David Eric Grohl was born in Warren, Ohio on January 14, 1969.
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