I like this album a lot. It meant a lot at the time. Not exactly a resurrection, but more like a rebirth. Before Dave Grohl was the mayor of Hollywood. Later on, discovering a couple of these tunes were pitched as Nirvana songs provided something to think about. At least as much as a what if scenario. I thought the band line-up was great. Half of Sunny Day, half of Nirvana-ish. I saw them with Mike Watt and Hovercraft around the time this came out. It’s all kind of a blur though. #foofighters#selftitled#davegrohl#patsmear#natemendel#williamgoldsmith#roswellrecords#90s#90salternative#vinyl#record#records#vinylcollection#vinylrecords#bigme
#OnThisDay in 1979, it was "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park in Chicago, where the White Sox and Detroit Tigers were playing a double-header.
The plan was to blow up (literally) a bunch of disco albums between games, but it went horribly wrong.
The explosion blew a hole in the field and sent shards of vinyl records flying all over the park. Thousands of fans became unruly and rushed the field tearing up bases, climbing the foul poles, storming and wrecking the team dugouts and forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game.
Disco Demolition Night went down in history as the beginning of the end of Disco…for a few decades anyway.
The Disco sound has enjoyed a resurgence over the last decade. Last summer for Record Store Day, Foo Fighters renamed themselves "Dee Gees" and released "Hail Satin", a hit album featuring their covers of classic Bee Gees disco hits.
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I knew basically nothing about Dave Grohl, but I kept seeing rave reviews of his autobiography, The Storyteller. Very enjoyable and revealing. I was impressed by Grohl’s humility and genuineness. A lot of fun nostalgia for me since Grohl and I are about the same age. I used this audiobook to fulfill prompt 30 in @the52bookclub challenge: audiobook narrated by the author. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #audiobooks#julyreads#summerreading#bookstagram#foofighters#nirvana#davegrohl#thestoryteller