Dave Grohl has revealed that his 14-year-old daughter wants to record an album, and he might be a little desperate to appear on it.
In an interview with Sunday Times Culture, Dave Grohl opened up about daughter Violet’s musical ambitions, including her interest in making a shoegaze album.
“I did ask her the other day, ‘If you were to make a record, how do you imagine it would sound?’” Grohl began.
“And she said, ‘You know, I think somewhere within that shoegaze thing. Oh, and Dad, I need to get this new guitar pedal. It’s called Loveless, and I want my guitar to sound like My Bloody Valentine.’
“I was, like, ‘Yes. Yesss!’,” he said, admitting that his “next reaction” was, ‘Can I be on your record, please?’”
Grohl went on to name some of Violet’s musical inspirations, explaining that she’s currently in a “deep [David] Bowie phase”.
“I’m not talking about Eighties Bowie or Nineties Bowie — she hasn’t even got to Berlin. All she does is listen to live bootlegs of the ‘Station to Station’ tour,” he said.
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“Or I’ll hear Cocteau Twins coming out of her bedroom. And The Passions. Remember them? ‘I’m in Love with a German Film Star’.”
Grohl also added that he thinks Violet has “all the tool she needs” to succeed, aside from her family connections.
“She was born with perfect pitch and a soulful voice and a musical memory that is photographic. She has all the tools she needs. She writes, I see her notebooks and the lyrics she’s written,” he said.
“Part of the thing about becoming a musician is the drive that gives you the desire to do it. In that sense I may be her biggest handicap. Like, she’s got to be my fucking daughter? So I try to stay away,” he concluded.
Violet has already taken to the stage alongside Grohl a number of times, including at the 2020 Nirvana reunion and the 2019 Leeds Festival.
Check out Dave Grohl’s daughter Violet performing ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ by Nirvana:
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