Dave Grohl's latest “True Story” installment on Instagram focuses on the time he was asked to jam with musical titan Prince. The Foo Fighters main man was invited to join Prince and his band for soundcheck during the Purple One's 21-show residency at the Los Angeles Forum in 2011.
Grohl wrote, “It was a proposition that I had wished for my entire adult life, but never in my wildest dreams had imagined possible. Jam. With. Prince. Absolutely unfathomable. That's like dancing with Fred Astaire! Baking with Betty Crocker! Bong hits with Bob Marley!”
Grohl's latest piece of writing recounted how he counted down the days until the jam session, while also touching on the first time he saw Prince live, how the late singer shut down the Foo Fighters' release of a “Darling Nikki” cover, and how Grohl felt about Prince working the Foos' “Best Of You” into his Super Bowl halftime show medley.
Grohl recalled a while back how the Foos' 2003 cover of “Darling Nikki” was originally a B-side until it became a hit on its own: “It's a really weird song, and I'd always wanted to do it. So finally I thought, 'yeah, let's record it.' We recorded it, we did it in (drummer) Taylor (Hawkins)'s basement, just did it in an afternoon, it came out on some B-side, and then all of a sudden, people started playing it on the radio. Total fluke.”
Grohl launched his “Dave's True Stories” late last month on Instagram to entertain people during the coronavirus crisis. Foo Fighters had to postpone their “Van Tour,” which was originally scheduled to take place in April and May, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
