Featured Image Credit: X/@eointighe
Topics: Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Music
Anish Vij
A lad from Ireland reckons he's the reason Foo Fighters exist after frontman Dave Grohl once spoke about their chance meeting in an interview, and he has the proof to back it up.
Fans of the iconic rock band might want to thank Lorcan Dunne for an awful lot after he supposedly inspiried the formation of the Foo Fighters.
Dunne's cousin took to X to explain how his relative was 'kind of an important' factor in why the band was formed back in 1994.
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Eoin Tighe said he stumbled across an old video of Grohl, who opened up about what made him pick up the drum sticks again following the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain in April 1994.
To help battle with the grief, Grohl said in an interview that he had to 'disappear' and go to the 'most remote place on Earth'.
"I've been before. It's so beautiful there. You really feel like you're at the end of the Earth," he said of The Ring of Kerry in Ireland.
"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.
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"It was Kurt's face looking back at me... in the middle of nowhere!"
Here's when it gets interesting, as Lorcan explained: "We were down on the Beara Peninsula on a holiday and we hitched up to this place to go swimming.
"I was running and I saw a car there, so I thought I'd run up and hitch. When I was hitching, I looked into who was sitting in the passenger seat - but it was David Grohl.
"I didn't recognise him firstly, but I saw this look of shock on the guy's face... and I had a Nirvana t-shirt on with Kurt Cobain on it. It was black tie dye, the one with Kurt where he has the mascara on his face.
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"I saw the look of shock and the next thing, the car just tore off, away. And I turned round like, 'That was David Grohl lad!' Nobody believed me!"
And while not many believed the Irishman - with many continuing to doubt the tale all these years later - he certainly has the proof in the form of a fabulously retro photograph of him hiking wearing said t-shirt.
This interaction, along with the lad's choice of t-shirt, helped inspire the formation of the legendary rock band.
Meanwhile, cousin Eoin wrote on Thursday (15 August): "So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of @foofighters @FooFightersUK.
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"He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland. Lorcan was out hitchhiking wearing his nirvana top when Dave stopped."
Talk about being in the right place at the right time, eh?