And over time it becomes more just a part of your life. Grohl: I feel like when you first start playing music it’s pretty much all about the music and it’s you’re just so focused on making the music and playing music. And it has something to do with sharing your idea with people and hoping they enjoy it.īaltin: I always go back to when I was interviewing Slash for the very first solo album, and he was saying ”I find myself doing stuff now that I never would have imagined doing.” And not necessarily in a bad way, but it’s changed so much in terms of the expectations fans. And then the performance is serving all of the people, and there’s this same sort of satisfaction when you see people coming down the line, and you hand them a plate of food. And the preparation is the same as you would write and arrange a song and then record it. I come up with my recipe here in my menu, it’s the same as writing a song. Grohl: Cooking and serving people is not unlike a musical performance in that this is the way that I make food. And to me it sounded like such a great idea to have a huge trailer- And it just seemed like such a fun idea to really just be able to sit down and smell the smoke, and eat the food, yeah.īaltin: Plus there is so much correlation between music and food. So it’s kind of like a VIP thing before a show where you come, I guess it’s after sound check and you basically just sit and eat and cook with the band. But he would do these eat and greet things for his fans. Steve Baltin: Talk about the now increasingly popular Dave Grohl BBQ and playing combo.ĭave Grohl: It’s funny because I remember before I ever met Zac Brown, I saw a picture of him in Rolling Stone or some music magazine where he had on an apron and he was rubbing a hawk or whatever the f**k he was doing. Petey Greene went against mainstream codes by both calling attention to his African American racial consciousness in a public forum like the radio, and by using linguistic codes that gave him street credit, but were up to that period less assertively used on the airwaves.To prepare for the very unusual post midnight BBQ, Grohl and friends set up shop in the Observatory parking lot that afternoon, blasting out tunes from AC/DC, Dio and more as they manned the smokers and prepped the food, which Grohl says takes 14 or so hours.ĭuring the afternoon prep, I sat down with Grohl and Haney to talk about Abbott, what made him special, how barbecuing is like writing a song and the metal musician, besides Grohl, who best exemplifies the spirit of Abbott. Additionally, his style had the power to create community through revaluing traditional black idioms and forms of speech. It argues that his most effective vehicle was his performative style of communication through the aggressive language of the streets that was confrontative and disruptive, to be sure, but that may be viewed also as a violent abridgement of normative mainstream social codes in their privileging of proper English and in their insistence upon respectable and appropriate subject matter for the airwaves. spanned the juncture between the civil rights and the black power movements. This essay is an attempt to recover the life and legacy of Ralph “Petey” Greene, an influential African American broadcaster and community leader whose career in Washington, D.C.
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