• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

DAVE GROHL Posts 32-Year-Old Letter He Wrote To Musical Hero

May 29, 2015

According to The Pulse of Radio, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl has posted a letter he wrote when he was just 14 years old to underground punk legend Ian MacKaye of the band FUGAZI. In the letter, Grohl asks MacKaye if he can connect Grohl with anyone who can help pursue his dream of playing rock music, adding his phone number and even the hours during which MacKaye can call him.

Grohl wrote on Twitter about the 32-year-old letter, "Look what my hero Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) just found: a letter I wrote to him when I was 14! Haha!"

Grohl, who grew up in Virginia, has long cited the Washington D.C. punk rock scene as a formative influence on him.

His first professional band, SCREAM, emerged out of the D.C. scene.

FOO FIGHTERS released an EP called "Songs From The Laundry Room" last month for Record Store Day. The disc features early FOO FIGHTERS demos that Grohl recorded before the band's first album.

FOO FIGHTERS begin a massive North American tour in Washington D.C. on July 4 — the 20th anniversary of the release of the band's first album.

Find more on Dave grohl
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).