Dave Grohl Once Took Mushrooms At Family Christmas Celebrations

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Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl shared one of his favourite Christmas memories while speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, recalling the time that he once took some magic mushrooms at his mum’s house as a teenager.

“At my house. I don’t know when this tradition started. It started maybe when I was like 13 years old or 14 years old. I grew up in a house that was really small and every Christmas night people just knew to come over to the Grohl’s little house” Said the frontman. “We would all just sit around and listen to music and drink and stuff like that. By the time I was like 14 or 15, now I’m in a punk rock band, my punk rock friends are coming over.”

“So this one year, God I shouldn’t be telling this story. This one year, I think I was like 15 or something like that. My friend gave me mushrooms for Christmas, right? I’d never taken them before. So I thought, ‘Okay, I probably shouldn’t take them at this party because all of my mother’s friends are coming over.’ Right? They’re teachers at the school that I go to, I know these people. I’d known for a long time. So my friend gives me all these mushrooms. I think, ‘I’ll take a little bit before the party.'”

“I was out of my fucking mind.” Dave continued. “So much so, one of the teachers from the school pulled me into the bathroom at one point and was like, ‘Are you doing cocaine?’ I was like, ‘No, no!’”

“So then after everyone left I stayed up and tried to learn that Zeppelin song, ‘Bron-Y-Aur,’ that acoustic thing until like six o’clock in the morning. I never figured it out. I thought I figured it out, but I didn’t really figure it out.” Grohl concluded.

Dave Grohl recently finished his ‘Hanukkah Sessions’ project alongside Greg Kurstin, Check them out here. Foo Fighters are set to release their new album ‘Medicine at Midnight’ at the start of next year, Here’s the first single ‘Shame Shame’: