In the course of the promotional run for Dave Grohl’s 2021 e-book The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, he recalled getting impressed to type the Foo Fighters after operating into an Irish hitchhiker carrying a Kurt Cobain t-shirt. Now, that Irish hitchhiker has come ahead along with his aspect of the story.
In a video posted by his cousin Eoin Tighe on Twitter, Lorcan Dunne explains he not too long ago realized the connection after watching a video of Grohl speaking about getting misplaced in rural Eire after Cobain died in 1994. Trying again, Dunne remembered occurring a hitchhiking journey with buddies and approaching a automotive forward of his group.
Dunne mentioned when he noticed Grohl (whom he didn’t acknowledge at first) within the passenger seat, he noticed “this look of shock” at his “Nirvana t-shirt with Kurt Cobain on it.” For no matter purpose, Dunne didn’t get a experience as a result of the “automotive simply tore off away,” however he clearly left an impression on Grohl. Naturally, “no one” believed Dunne when he tried to inform his buddies. Watch the clip under.
This all traces up with Grohl’s telling of the encounter, through which he remembered occurring a “soul-searching” journey to The Ring of Kerry in Eire, which he described as “essentially the most distant place on Earth.”
“You actually really feel such as you’re on the finish of the Earth,” Grohl defined. “I used to be driving round in my rental automotive on a rustic street and I noticed this hitchhiker child. And I assumed, ‘Effectively, possibly I’ll decide him up.’ And as I bought nearer to him, I noticed that he had a Kurt Cobain t-shirt on.”
Grohl continued, “It was Kurt’s face wanting again at me in the course of nowhere and I noticed I can’t outrun this so I must go residence and fucking get again to work. And so I did.”
Within the caption of Tighe’s publish, he described Dunne as a “legend.” It’s arduous to disagree.
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So my legend of a cousin Lorcan simply realised he was sort of essential to the creation of @foofighters @FooFightersUK He noticed a video by Dave Grohl speaking about why he bought again to work after a go to to Eire. Lorcan was out hitchhiking carrying his nirvana prime when Dave stopped pic.twitter.com/nD7cUE0w8w
— Eoin Tighe (@eointighe) August 15, 2024
