Irish hitchhiker responsible for Foo Fighters forming has been identified
nme.comFoo Fighters forming has been identified via a video on social media.Lorcan Dunne has stumbled on a video of Dave Grohl online talking about what inspired him to return to music following the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994 and the subsequent ending of Nirvana.Dunne’s cousin, Eoin Tighe, took to Twitter, now X, to explain that he believed Dunne to be the man Grohl spoke about in the interview – and the reason Grohl got back into the studio after the death of Cobain.In the video, Grohl explains he had a “soul-searching” trip to The Ring of Kerry in Ireland.
Grohl said he wanted to “disappear” and go to the “most remote place on earth” after he battled grief following the death of Cobain.He explained: “I’ve been before.
It’s so beautiful there. You really feel like you’re at the end of the Earth. I was driving around in my rental car on a country road and I saw this hitchhiker kid.
And I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll pick him up’. And as I got closer to him, I saw that he had a Kurt Cobain t-shirt on.“It was Kurt’s face looking back at me…in the middle of nowhere!”In a video then shared by Eoin on social media, Dunne explained the story from his point of view.So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of @foofighters @FooFightersUK He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland.
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