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Playing with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones in the new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures is a dream come true for Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl, the singer/dummer tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive Q&A in our next issue.
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Grohl’s Zeppelin worship goes all the way back to his teenage years, when he got the first of three Zep-inspired tattoos — he’s got John Bonham’s three-circle Led Zeppelin IV logo tattooed in three places. “I did the first one myself when I was 16,” he says. “I tried to get different colored ink to make it seem pro, but now it looks like someone put a cigarette out on my fucking arm.”
The second was slightly more professional: he got it done in an illegal squat in Amsterdam. “It was done by an Italian guy named Andrea whose tattoo gun was made out of a doorbell machine,” he says. “When my mother saw it, she was like, “David!” I was like, “Mom, I’ve done a lot worse shit than this, believe me. Look at my other arm.”
And the last one Grohl paid for with his first check — that would be $400 — from being in Nirvana. “Kurt and I were living with each other in Olympia. The place was so depressing,” he says. “I took the $400 and bought a Nintendo, a BB gun — mind you, I was 21, not 12 — and got that tattoo. One of my fondest memories of living in that rat-shit-hole apartment was buying a dozen eggs at the A&P, bringing them to Kurt’s backyard, and me and Kurt and Buzz [Osbourne] from the Melvins shooting at the eggs. Those were the days.”
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