Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl has teamed up with daughter Violet to cover ‘Nausea’, a seminal track from Los Angeles punk stalwarts X.
The new offering is taken from Grohl’s upcoming documentary ‘What Drives Us’, which sees the likes of Ringo Starr, AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, St Vincent and Slash sharing their experiences of life on the road.
Opening up on the inspiration from the track, Grohl explained how he returned home from Nirvana’s world tour in 1992 to receive a letter from his grandmother, which explained that he may be related to X drummer DJ Bonebrake.
“I found it a bit peculiar that my not-so punk rock 83-year-old grandmother would pay any attention to X’s tour stop, but upon further inspection I noticed that she had circled the name of one of the band members in the article, DJ Bonebrake, and I quickly realised why this article had caught her attention,” wrote Grohl.
“Bonebrake was my grandmother’s maiden name.”
Grohl subsequently opened up on the long lineage of the Bonebrake name, and explained how a recording session with X singer John Doe prompted him to decide if they were related once for and all.
Grohl and Bonebrake eventually met at a Foo Fighters show in 2007, with Foos bassist and punk icon Pat Smear managing to broker the meeting.
“As he [Bonebrake] came through the door, we all stood up and warmly greeted him like a long lost relative, inspecting every feature, desperately trying to identify the trademark family brow or chin, passed down over centuries,” said Grohl.
“Long discussions of distant relatives and our historic family tree ensued, and by the end of the night we parted ways feeling a bit more connected to the linenage that bought us to this place.”
The captivating story comes as Grohl gears up to release a new book titled The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.
Speaking of the project, the singer said: “The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world.”
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