Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBSLast week, Dave Grohl shared a letter that he wrote to Ian MacKaye, which the Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman had recently unearthed. Speaking to NME, Grohl explains the background of the letter to his punk hero.
"Ian sent me an email saying, 'Look what I found cleaning out my attic,'" Grohl says. "It was this little letter that I sent him. I don't know what the rest of the letter was. I think I was maybe 14 and I wrote [Washington, D.C. punk label] Dischord Records a letter because I wanted someone to release my band's demo tape, we were called Mission Impossible."
In the letter, Grohl writes, "Good thrash so I was wondering if you could give me some numbers or people to get in touch with." He signed his name "David Grohl" and even provided a phone number, plus a window for when it would be best to call.
During their Sonic Highways documentary series, Foo Fighters recorded the song "The Feast and the Famine" at Inner Ear Studios in Washington, D.C., which was where many of the Dischord Records albums were recorded.
"If the Foos could do a Dischord single, then we could break up," Grohl jokes. "Done deal."
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