Dave Grohl is a back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker - Washington Post
NEW YORK — Even before he fell off a stage in Sweden and broke his leg, Dave Grohl was feeling creaky. He is 46, drinks too much coffee, and wakes up at 6 wherever he is, even on days he doesn’t need to pack lunches and get the kids into the Honda Odyssey. “The pre-show now is, like, a couple whiskies and a couple Advils,” he said with grinning derision one day in May. At one point during an interview in the cafe of the Park Hyatt, to make a point about the power of music to connect, he expounded upon the lyrical beauty of the quintessentially cheesy ’70s pop hit “Escape (the Piña Colada Song),” which he learned... “Then, the third verse they decide to meet — so they meet, and it’s his wife. “He’s like, ‘I had no idea you liked piña coladas and getting caught in the rain,’ and then they fall back in love. “Actually listened to the music,” he said with satisfaction. By this point, the conversation had already touched on the craft shows Grohl’s mom took him to as a child and the time an image of the murderous cult leader Jim Jones inadvertently wound up painted on the teenage Grohl’s bedroom wall. Source: www.washingtonpost.com