Ahead of the release of his new book The Storyteller in October, Dave Grohl has shared a huuuuuge excerpt detailing his journey into punk, and how he discovered the recipe to make it in rock'n'roll himself.
Entitled 'Tracey is a punk rocker', the Foo Fighters frontman recalls in an almost 3,000-word segment of the book how his "ultra-cool cousin Tracey" (who isn't actually related to Dave) had transformed into a "postapocalyptic superhero" between their usual summer meetings back in the day, with her "shiny Doc Marten boots, black bondage pants, an Anti-Pasti T-shirt, and a shaved head" inspiring something he'd never felt before when he was just 13 years old.
Tracey then took Dave to his first-ever gig at Chicago's Cubby Bear to see Naked Raygun, the experience blowing his mind having only previously spent his childhood "watching MTV and staring at the KISS and Led Zeppelin posters on my bedroom walls".