![]() ![]() Yes, I want to know what studio (they worked in), what microphone they use, how they wrote this song. Therefore I don’t know how to write one! I just knew I didn’t want to write a formulaic, chronological, informational rock biography. I still don’t read books about rock stars. Q: But did you start at all reading books from rock stars, getting the basics?Ī: No. I also wasn’t ever really good at taking direction, so I realized I better do it myself, I’m a (expletive) terrible student. To me that was the allure - completely independent people doing it themselves. That’s when I realized I could do this, too. You would see Falls Church (Virginia), 20 stoplights from where I lived. ![]() You would see Missoula, Montana, San Diego. When I did discover this scene, I would look at the back of albums to see where the P.O. I was running around the lakes near by house, riding my bike, playing soccer. At 13, growing up in suburban Virginia, there’s no evidence of a subversive scene. It was then I realized this (punk) thing was not just in Chicago. But no, after Naked Raygun, the next day I was at Wax Trax, flipping through record crates. We would travel into town and go to museums and the Sears Tower and (expletive) like that, which made it more of a conventional Americana vacation. Q: Did you have a routine when you came to Chicago?Ī: Arrive at the house, go to the beach, go to a dinner, back to the house, next day at the beach. A young Dave Grohl waits for his mother to load the car in Virginia before a trip to Evanston, where the family spent several summers. ![]()
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