Dave GrohlTimes Like His: Foo Fighters, Nirvana Other Misadventures: Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Other Misadventures By Martin James

The book was entertaining, but had a lot of redundancies. It also desperately needed an editor as there are many errors in it. I'd still recommend reading it, especially if you are a Foo or Grohl fan. 256 Good journalism about a fun topic, but I think this book could've used more editing attention: my copy was absolutely riddled with errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and consistency. Too bad, since there was lots of good material in this up-to-date biography. 256 Rambling, incoherent. Dave and the Foos deserve much better. 256 Felt like reading more of a research paper on the history of punk and rock n roll in Dave’s childhood/growing-up-years for the first half of the book, but still learned a great deal about his experiences in music! 256 Mildly enjoyable without really learning anything new. Still, I love to read about people I love. The drummer jokes to start every chapter were great; but the cringe-worthy jokes that ran throughout were not (his new baby is loud just like his music! Such wit!) 256

DNF. Never ending pages of factual information without relevance and storytelling 256 Reasonably good chronicle of Dave Grohl‘s life and activity 256 What was this supposed to be? A Biography? Not really. More like a history. First there is an unnecessary history of the DC punk scene. Then the endless litanies of every tour. Every song is described, then other critics are quoted, then the author supplies his own critique. No, this book is more tedious than pompous, but not much. 256 This is only the second book in my life I have considered not finishing. It took me 3 1/2 months to finish it.

You'd expect a Dave Grohl biography to be like Dave - hyper, charming, driven. It was none of that. There were sparks of excitement every so often, but they often died quickly. The first chapter is all we get of Dave's childhood. There is a 20-page history of the punk scene in Washington D.C. I understand the importance of the punk scene in influencing Grohl's work, but the entire history was not necessary. Not to mention the terrible editing/proof reading job. Even the names of some of the biggest rock stars are not correct on one page, but correct on the next.

The best part of the book is the drummer jokes at the beginning of each chapter. 256 As one of those uber fans of the band, I enjoyed this. But, truth be told, there are far better rock biographies out there. And I'm not even sure this could be called biography at all. It's more chronology of the bend and even more, its albums. This is basic set up. That said, could all the music critics psycho(tic) babble have been avoided? Is there a person in the world who enjoys randomly assembled corpuses of words of notoriously unobjective, prone-to-spurs-of-the-moments, musical (or any, for that matter), critics? I'm pretty sure the answers are yes, and no, respectively.

True rock biographies are those written by rockstars themselves (or their ghost writers, more often, but under their strict supervision), or by persons very close to the bend, like their managers (recent Van Halen biography I've read comes to mind).

This, unfortunately, is neither of those. 256

Martin James Ù 9 Summary

Foo Fighters emerged from the morass of suicide and potent musical legacy that was Nirvana to establish themselves against all odds as one of the most popular rock bands in the world.Deflecting early critical disdain, Dave Grohl has single-handedly reinvented himself and cemented his place in the rock pantheon. This is his story, from his pre-Nirvana days in hardcore band Scream to his current status as a festival conquering, Grammy winning, platinum-selling grunge legend.Across the entire body of Foo Fighters albums, the whole legendary Nirvana tale, the pre-history in the nascent Seattle scene and Grohl's flirtations with Queens of the Stone Age and his supergroup side-project Them Crooked Vultures, this is an utterly comprehensive, insightful chronicle of Dave Grohl's remarkable life.Drawing on new interviews with key figures in the Grohl story, this definitive biography of one of modern rock's most influential figures includes the stories of the multi-platinum opus Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, 2011's Wasting Light, which saw Grohl reunited with Nirvana producer Butch Vig and Sonic Highways, their ambitious homage to coast-to-coast US classic rock.'FASCINATING' THE GUARDIAN Dave GrohlTimes Like His: Foo Fighters, Nirvana Other Misadventures: Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Other Misadventures