Next, Grohl recounts a memory of Sandi, the first girl he fell in love with and who broke his heart. As an adolescent, he was introduced to punk music through his cousin and a Naked Raygun concert, and immediately developed an interest in the musical genre. He recalls how his mother took him to a local jazz club, and it was there that he first became inspired to play music himself. Grohl sees himself in his daughter’s passion and also remembers the way his mother helped him first discover music Grohl emphasizes the circular nature of life and how traits like a passion for music seem to be passed on from generation to generation. His memoir begins with an anecdote about his daughter, Harper, who desperately wants to learn to play drums. Grohl’s memoir follows a loose, chronological timeline, maintaining a thread from his youth to the present while drawing parallels between memories and experiences of the distant past with those that have occurred recently. So if you hear me kind of giggling in the middle of a song, it’s because I’m trying not to just fucking totally break down in front of everybody like a fool.This study guide uses the 2021 Dey Street first edition of the book. What chokes me up is when I see people singing lyrics back to me with the same emotion.
“There are nights where you’re thinking about what toppings are on the pizza on the bus and whether you need to do laundry tomorrow, but when you launch into a song like that, it immediately brings you back. Ostensibly, some musicians will notice the initial emotion of a given track wear off over time, but for Grohl, as soon as he starts playing, the feelings come flooding back, and he “giggles” to stifle the tears. Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2018, Grohl was asked if he still connects with the original emotion behind more ruminative and personal songs like ‘Everlong’ during live shows. As well as offering Grohl the companionship he sought, she was the muse behind a song that helped launch Foo Fighters to global acclaim as the figurehead of their masterpiece sophomore album. Over the Christmas period in 1996, the tides seemed to change when Grohl found a new love in Louise Post, the vocalist and guitarist of the band Veruca Salt.
Shortly before writing the track, Grohl had been couch-surfing following a divorce from his former wife, photographer Jennifer Youngblood. “That song’s about a girl that I’d fallen in love with, and it was basically about being connected to someone so much that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them, you harmonise perfectly,” Grohl told Kerrang of ‘Everlong’ in a 2006 conversation.
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