The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

Oct 2021 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Dave Grohl

About this audiobook

Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never before heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook.

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 tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice. 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. 

Ratings and reviews

Dave Grohl autobiography here is quite good. This book starts with his childhood, how he became a drummer and eventually found himself in Scream, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Them Crooked Vultures. It also deals with him being a father and being there for his family when it counts. (surprises are his encounters with Paul McCartney, AC/DC, and getting arrested) If your looking for a fun ride this is the place, with life lessons, hard knocks, and taking things in stride in life. Remember Hot pots will get you through the day.

It s wonderful I like his stories and his voice it's like your there with him my f4ist time listening to Dave I do enjoy I feel think you will too thanks so much happy safe blessed days nights Jesus l9ves us

I don't read books because I'm too ADHD and side quests happen, but I had to read this, so hey, the audiobook! And in Dave's voice! I'd heard a few of the stories before but hmmworthy to hear them fit into the completed puzzle. I loved the vulnerability. It was a real human experience hearing the excitement or pain in his voice. Badass to hear all the rock & roll moments - adorable to hear his love for his family. I also feel like I got a history lesson on the beginnings before and during Nirvana. I went to College in Sherman Oaks, practically next door during the recording of Nevermind. I finished the book a day before subscribing to HBO Max and consequently learned I could watch the Foo Fighters inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Beautiful. Thanks Dave, for this gift to your fans! Can't promise I won't steal one of the life-size stand-ups in a bookstore though. 🤘

About the author

DAVE GROHL is a 16-time Grammy-winning musician and 2-time Emmy-winning director.Grohl has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene 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.