The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
Perfect for anyone who loves music or emotional intelligence!
Before you do anything, open YouTube and type in “Dave Grohl Plays Nirvana NYC 2021.”
This book speaks to me as a music lover. When I was in middle school, I had a choice: a radio or TV. Of course, we were too broke to afford cable TV so the choice was easy: radio! I must have listened to Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls at least 2,000 times.
The Storyteller was an extremely entertaining memoir where Dave’s love of music shines and shines through. Dave strolls through his childhood and his days in the business, primarily with Scream, Nirvana, and the Foo Fighters.
Although Dave never mentions it, he is simply a master in emotional intelligence. He spent years touring in a van with numerous other bandmates. If I had to tour in a van, I would not last more than 24 hours. Recently, there was a lawsuit filed by the baby on the cover of Nirvana’s most famous cover (now a man in his 30’s) who is claiming that he was taken advantage of and would like the cover to be altered (despite the fact that he has reenacted the cover scene many times and has stated that he didn’t really do anything for Nirvana).
When Dave Grohl was asked what he thought, “I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover but we’ll see what happens. We’ll let you know. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good. I think there is much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things.” This guy is a rock star just for saying that! Instead of cutting this freeloader down to size, he went positive and said that he has a lot of creative ideas. How cool is that?!
The Storyteller had me laughing out loud often. I never even knew who Dave Grohl was before reading this book so you don’t have to know who he is to enjoy it. For this book, I practiced immersion reading (listening to the audio while following along in a printed copy). The audiobook was read by Dave Grohl himself. He has an incredible rich voice that was a pleasure just to listen to. There is also about 10 minutes of bonus material in the audiobook that was not in my Kindle version.
Overall, a must read if you really love music! Rock on!