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About Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl is a 16-time Grammy-winning musician and 2-time Emmy-winning director.
Dave Grohl has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music since his recorded debut with Nirvana on 1991's generation-defining Nevermind. Grohl took center stage with Foo Fighters' 1995 self-titled debut, the first album in massive 12-Grammy-winning catalogue that now includes The Colour & The Shape (1997), There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999), One By One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete and Gold (2017) and, most recently, Medicine at Midnight (2021).
Grohl has a well-earned reputation as a prolific collaborator: His various endeavors have included "Cut Me Some Slack,” written and recorded with Paul McCartney and Grohl's Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear; Them Crooked Vultures, formed with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age's Joshua Homme, late legends David Bowie and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, as well as Mick Jagger, Neil Young, Elton John, Nine Inch Nails, Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen, to name a few.
In 2013, Grohl made his debut as a feature director/producer with the acclaimed documentary Sound City. Named for the Van Nuys CA studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind in 1991, which would sell more than 30 million copies and transform the modern musical landscape. Premiering to unanimous raves at Sundance and achieving a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, Sound City focused both on the history of the legendary studio and on the ongoing fight to preserve the human element of music. Hailed by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as an "exhilarating documentary about what makes life worth living,” by The New York Times as "candy to several generations' worth of rock fans" and NPR as "a celebration of just how unbelievably awesome it is to make rock music for a living," Sound City has since been certified as a Gold Longform Video by the RIAA, while the Sound City—Real To Reel companion album took the 2013 Grammys for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Rock Song (“Cut Me Some Slack”).
Grohl also directed the eight-part HBO docuseries Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, which premiered in October 2014 and went on to win two of the four Emmys for which it was nominated (outstanding sound mixing for nonfiction programming and outstanding sound editing for nonfiction programming). Described by Grohl as a love letter to the history of American music, Sonic Highways was comprised of eight one-hour episodes, each chronicling the creation of one song on Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways album, each written and recorded in a different American musical landmark -- Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
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Books By Dave Grohl
So, I’ve written a book.
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child.
This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.
Por suerte, mi memoria se ha mantenido relativamente intacta. Desde pequeño, siempre he medido mi vida en avances musicales, y no en meses o años. Para recordar un momento y un lugar en concreto, mi mente vuela a canciones, álbumes y bandas. Desde las emisoras AM de los setenta hasta cada uno de los micrófonos que he usado, te puedo ir diciendo el qué, el quién, el dónde y el cuándo desde las primeras notas de cualquier canción que haya saltado de un altavoz a mi alma. O de mi alma al altavoz. Para algunas personas, el detonante de un recuerdo es un sabor, para otras puede ser un olor o algo que vean. Mi detonante es el sonido, como un recopilatorio inacabado a la espera de ser enviado.
Aunque nunca he sido de los que coleccionan «cosas», sí colecciono momentos. En ese sentido, mi vida pasa ante mis ojos y a través de mis oídos todos los días. En este libro he tratado de reflejar algunos de esos momentos lo mejor que he podido. Por supuesto, esos recuerdos están llenos de música. Y a veces pueden ser ruidosos.
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En The Storyteller, una colección de momentos de todas las épocas de su vida, Dave Grohl nos ofrece algo extraordinario: un retrato crudo y sincero de una vida excepcional hecha a base de momentos normales y corrientes. Cuando nos habla del amor visceral por la música y sus compañeros, de su profunda conexión con su ciudad natal, Springfield (Virginia), y del asombro con el que ve crecer a sus hijas, Dave Grohl nos cuenta sus recuerdos del mismo modo en que escribe sus canciones, desde lo más hondo de su alma. Repleto de reflexiones sobre sus giras con los Scream, su entrada en Nirvana y el desmoronamiento del grupo, la creación de los Foo Fighters cuando se encontraba en un momento decisivo de su vida y cómo ahora recorre el mundo como un padre de familia, The Storyteller son unas memorias llenas de vida y humor en las que Dave nos transmite su lúcida visión de la fama.
Ahora que ya sabemos que Dave Grohl es uno de nuestros músicos más valiosos, The Storyteller nos los presenta como un escritor rebosante de encanto y talento.
The Storyteller zit boordevol leven en humor. We kenden Dave Grohl al als een van de meest gewaardeerde muzikanten, maar in dit boek ontpopt hij zich daarnaast als een begaafd en boeiend schrijver.
Drummer von Nirvana, Band Leader der Foo Fighters, erfolgreicher Solokünstler: Dave Grohl ist einer der größten Rockstars unserer Zeit – und seine Stories sind der lässigste Bestseller im Herbst 2021
„Es gibt einen roten Faden, der sich durch alles zieht, was ich tue: das Geschichtenerzählen. Ob in Liedern, Filmen oder auf Instagram, ich habe immer das Bedürfnis, Momente aus meinem Leben zu teilen.“
Dave Grohl ist ein Weltstar auf den Musikbühnen. Und er ist ein fulminanter Erzähler. Von den Geschichten seines Lebens handelt sein Buch: von einschneidenden Erlebnissen in Kindheit und Jugend, vom Aufbruch aus der Familie in die Welt der Musik, von eindrücklichen Begegnungen, einem Auftritt im Weißen Haus oder auch einem partysprengenden Feuerwerk bei einer Familienfeier … Grohl schildert ein Leben in voller Lautstärke, das reich ist an lustigen Absurditäten wie auch berührenden Momenten.
Livro de memórias de Dave Grohl traz relato emocionante sobre a vida de um dos maiores nomes do rock internacional
Não é preciso ser fã do Nirvana ou do Foo Fighters para saber que Dave Grohl é uma das figuras mais queridas e respeitadas da música mundial. De sua entrada na banda punk Scream, no fim da adolescência, até o enorme sucesso do Foo Fighters — passando pelos estrondosos anos no Nirvana —, Dave tem uma trajetória marcada por situações bizarras, dores inimagináveis, contratempos descomunais e conquistas ainda maiores. Em O contador de histórias, uma reunião de memórias de todos os períodos de sua vida, ele oferece algo raro: um retrato íntimo e sincero de uma vida extraordinária feita de momentos comuns — e de outros nem tanto assim.
Repleto de reflexões sobre rock, família, carreira e as encruzilhadas que encontramos na vida, esta autobiografia traz a perspectiva de um dos maiores nomes do rock sobre a fama, em relatos carregados de honestidade, emoção e humor. Da infância até os dias atuais, seja falando de seu amor visceral pela música, de sua conexão com sua cidade natal ou do orgulho que sente das filhas, o músico entrega agora em prosa toda a verdade que encontramos em suas canções.
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