"So I grew up in a small town in Virginia... but the first place that I really got turned onto live music was here in Chicago... I saw my first live concerts here when I would come visit... Ever since then I'd been hooked on music... So it's really because of the Chicago music scene... We've played here a ton though... (blah blah... talks about where they've played)... I remember playing here a long time ago in my first band... we were touring across America and when we got to LA we kind of just broke up out of nowhere... In the middle of touring... At that point I didn't know what the hell I was going to do... Or what direction I was headed... So I was out in LA pretty much living in an apartment... playing with a few people just to make a few bucks... When I had a friend that gave me the number of these two guys from Seattle that were looking for a drummer... So.. I gave them a call and everything worked out to where they said they'd like to play with me... So I fly up to Seattle with pretty much the last bit of money that I had... They picked me up at the airport... literally with nothing but my drum kit, a guitar and an apple that I took from a breakfast cart on the plane... that's all that I owned at this point... I remember seeing Kris whose a big tall... he's like... 6' 8" or something... goofy guy and thinking... whoa... you don't seem like that on the phone... And of course Kurt was a small quiet guy... pretty much just said hey and that was it... Immediately I'm thinking... THEEEEESE GUYS ARE WEIRD!!! What the hell did I get myself into... So... me and Kris load my stuff in the van... and we're on our way to their place and it's just this terrible uncomfortable silence... And I couldnt' think of anything to say... I'm thinking... 'Don't screw this up... it's my last chance'... and suddenly I just go... "Do you want a bite of my apple??" and Kurt says... "No... those things make my mouth bleed...." And I'll be honest... It freaked me out a bit. But we got back to the place... It was this little place out in the middle of no where that was pretty much a barn... So we would practice like 8 hours a day because we nothing else to do... And we lived in this small place that was pretty much two bedrooms a bathroom and a kitchen and living room all in one... and of course... I'm the drummer..... so.... I get the couch... which was about as big as.... *points to a chair* This...... But I was cool with it you know... (talks some more about the apartment... practicing...) This next song is pretty much the first song I'd ever written on an acoustic guitar... Becuase you know... We were in Seattle... it rains like 10 months out of the year... it's alway dark...... and depressing....... and grrrrrrrrungy.... We were into that stuff... But I wrote this song pretty much about my experience with these two weird dudes from Seattle... and how it was.... and one of my friends worked for a low budget record label in Seattle... she heard me play this song one time and she was like "you have to record that... let's record a small 4 track demo..." So I did... and little did I know back then... It was like 1991.... that it would be the start of what we're doing now... It was the start of the Foo Fighters... So this is a song about my friends in Nirvana... it's called Friend of a Friend"..............
Chills.......... I did the best to replicate the story... I left some parts out about Kris living in Tacoma... and a few others... but you get the point.. It was a kick ass concert thoguh for sure. Sorry for the long post... Just thought I'd provide some reading for someone out there that cares!! haha.
