Dave Grohl wrote a memoir, ‘The Storyteller’ – he says his rock’n’roll life started at Cubby Bear

A: Well, like most people, I imagined life in rock and roll before it happened to me. When Nirvana got popular and then ended and the Foo Fighters started, I always thought it would end at some point, normal life would resume. My dad said to me in 1991 (at the height of Nirvana), “You know it’s not going to last, do you? I said no, of course there’s no way something like that could do it. I always imagined it would stop and I would start a normal life. When I was welcomed into Neil’s world and saw his beautiful children, I said to myself “Wait, these things can coexist”. There are times when people tell me, “Your life is so weird”, and I look at them and think, “Your life is so (expletive) weird. In fact, a therapist said to me, “David, come on, you don’t live in reality. I was like, who are you (expletive) telling me what’s my reality or not? I got off that couch and never saw it again (expletive). You design and organize your own life. My life seems unusual to most people, but that doesn’t put my family down. It’s like “OK guys, I’m going for a week and a half, I have to go play in Toronto, New York, DC” They’re like “OK, daddy. Then I come back to make them sandwiches and drive them by minibus to the bus stop. Life outside of this group is very mundane and domestic and I love it. And the balance of those two things, I think, yeah, I learned that from Neil Young that day.