Credit: Michael LavineMontage of Heck, the first fully-authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, features a lot of home videos of the Nirvana frontman as a child and towards the end of his life. It is that footage that makes Dave Grohl "terrified" to watch the film.
As he tells The Washington Post, Grohl was lying next to his wife when she came across Montage of Heck. The film had already started, and the former Nirvana drummer -- and current Foo Fighters frontman -- figured he caught the one part of the film that he could watch.
"All the footage of him as a child, I think that might make me sad, and then the dark stuff at the end I think would bum me out," Grohl says. After watching the film for 10 minutes, Grohl stopped and went to sleep.
Before Grohl joined Nirvana in 1990, he was the drummer for the punk band Scream. He was a member of Scream when a friend called him to say that Nirvana was looking for a new drummer, but Grohl was concerned about leaving his current band mates. That's when he called his mom.
"Sometimes, you just have to do what's good for you," Grohl remembers his mom telling him.
Grohl faces another dilemma over what's good for him when it comes to Foo Fighters' upcoming North American tour, which is scheduled to begin July 4 in Washington, D.C. Foo Fighters were forced to cancel the remainder of their European tour after Grohl suffered a broken leg at a show earlier this month in Sweden, but the North American tour has so far been unaffected.
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