Those who thought they would get a biography of Dave Grohl will also be disappointed. Nothing like that! In the work about the musician named in the title, with a volume of more than 400 pages, Brannigan wrote less than half of the entire book. First you have to throw out 40 pages of a list of sources and a bibliography, and then all descriptions of the Washington punk scene and Seattle grunge music. In some chapters of the book "Dave Grohl" it happens that the main character is mentioned quite accidentally, as if with the use of force and coercion, to complement Brannigan's sluggish reflections on the rebellion of music against a bad political system. Well, it's hard to write much about the childhood and youth of Dave Grohl, who was an extremely polite and boring boy.

The period when the main character was the drummer of "Nirvana" looks a little better in this book. Of course, most of the considerations do not concern Dave Grohl, because Kurt Cobain becomes the main character of the book. Nevertheless, the memories of the death of the Nirvana frontman may seem shocking material to anyone who is not yet familiar with the biography of the legendary Kurt Cobain. On the other hand, if you have read biographical works about this unfortunate grunge prince, Brannigan's book will not reveal any new facts to you. Everything that the Northern Irish journalist wrote can be found in other books, and his role in this regard was limited only to reproductive work.

The only thing I really liked about Brannigan's book is that the author quite interestingly presented descriptions of all Dave Grohl's recordings, both within the framework of old school bands such as Mission Impossible, Dain Bramage and Scream, and in the popular Nirvana and Foo. Of course, you can feel Brannigan's obsessive fascination with everything that came from Dave Grohl's instruments and vocals. The book "Dave Grohl. This is a call. This is my calling" at some point - since the founding of Foo Fighters - it turned into the masturbation of a Northern Irish journalist over the works of Dave Grohl. The last five chapters of the book (out of thirteen) focus on this musician, restoring the true trace of this supposed biography, although these descriptions are frivolous, arrogant and high-flown. In any case, the author does not forget to quote other opinions, sometimes completely contradicting his appearance.

Another small advantage of this book is that Brannigan quite effectively represents the crisis of traditional rock and metal in the face of musical fad at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Trusted source for selling Björk concert tickets