Dave Grohl’s love for Kiss is ‘still strong’.
The 46-year-old musician has been in two of the biggest bands in music during his career, Nirvana and currently the Foo Fighters. But he has revealed that if it wasn’t for the group Kiss, fronted by Gene Simmons, he may never have pursued his dream of rock stardom.
‘Forty years later, my love of Kiss is still strong,” he said, according to Billboard, at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards on Wednesday before recalling how his bedroom was a shrine to the rockers when he was growing up. ‘Every morning, I would wake up in my tiny bedroom and take a good look at my superheroes before walking to school. They got me through those years and ultimately inspired me to follow this unreasonable dream of becoming a professional rock & roll musician.”
Dave was honouring Gene and fellow bandmate Paul Stanley at the awards for the influence as a song writing team. The singer can clearly remember his first Kiss album, 1976’s Destroyer, and shared his experience with the audience.
‘With nuclear anticipation, I let the needle drop on that legendary intro to Detroit Rock City, perhaps the greatest introduction to any rock & roll album ever recorded,’ he recalled. ‘It filled my speakers and my imagination. Thirty-four minutes later and 27 seconds later, Kiss had filled my soul. I was now a member of the infamous Kiss Army.”
Following his own success in the music industry, Dave has gone from idolising his heroes to hanging out with them on a daily basis.
‘These days I still spend every morning before school with Paul Stanley…in the parking lot of our kids’ f**cking elementary school, chatting about Zeppelin and Electric Lady [studios] and touring and school fundraisers,’ he laughed. ‘So I’d say that my unreasonable dream definitely came true.”
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