These are the qualities of a rich and enviable life, to be sure, but they don’t necessarily make a compelling read. He spends a whole chapter gushing over meeting Little Richard, another over Joan Jett. Grohl wants you to know that he is happy, satisfied, positive, and exuberant. The tone and topics are, unlike his lyrics but like his drumming, relentlessly upbeat.
The book’s prose is banal, buffoonish the song’s lyrics are personal, empathic. Surprisingly, he does not analyze or even mention his lyrics. it is as difficult to reconcile Everyman Dave with Destiny Dave as it is to reconcile The Storyteller’s prose with the lyrics that Grohl has composed over the past three decades. It’s easier for him to think of himself as rock’s Forrest Gump, haplessly in the right place at the right time (another cliché repeated throughout the book) than an agent of his own triumphs. Everyman Dave doesn’t put artifice-or labor-into his prose. This Everyman Dave favors superfluous adjectives (on the first page alone: 'cruel trick', 'false illusion', 'quick look in the mirror') and defaults to cliché. wholesome-is the precise yet unacknowledged tension of Grohl’s The Storyteller. The tension between his two groups-ironic vs.
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