One of the great bonds your Dad and I have always had between us is music.\u00a0 Grammy and I\u00a0 brought him to his first concert in 1989 to see Bon Jovi at Old Orchard Beach.\u00a0 They were one of the biggest rock bands of the Eighties.\u00a0 It was an outside summer concert; your Dad was 11 years old.<\/p>\n
I brought him to a lot of concerts over the past 25 years and we still talk about new albums and favorite artists.<\/p>\n
Rock music shifted from the “hair metal” era to “grunge” as your Dad entered high school.\u00a0 Nirvana led the way with their revolutionary “Nevermind” album which featured a song called “Smells like teen spirit.” Their lead singer of Nirvana was Kurt Cobain and the drummer was Dave Grohl.<\/p>\n
The nineties were the last great decade of rock and roll, and between 1994 and 1999, we saw most of the greats, both grunge and classic rock.<\/p>\n
Some of the musical artists we’ve seen together include Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Stone Temple Pilots, Live, REM, Candlebox, Sponge, Bush, Neil Young, the Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, Collective Soul, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Radiohead, the Black Keys, Nada Surf and Silversun Pickups.<\/p>\n
The act we’ve seen the most is Pearl Jam – we both love that band and last saw them in November 2013.\u00a0 Pearl Jam was the second biggest grunge band after Nirvana.\u00a0 PJ’s lead singer is Eddie Vedder, one of my favorite rock voices of all time.<\/p>\n
That’s why it was so special when your Dad asked me if I wanted to go see the Foo Fighters with him… and you!\u00a0 He remembers all the great concerts we’ve seen and wanted to introduce his son to the art form that has been our special bond.\u00a0 The founder of the Foo Fighters (and lead singer and main songwriter) is… Dave Grohl!<\/p>\n
What a treat it was being together at your first rock concert… at the age of nine vs. 11 for your Dad.\u00a0 You beat him by two years – your Dad was so psyched to bring you.<\/p>\n
Two other things made it memorable:\u00a0 the concert was at Fenway Park – on a warm July night.\u00a0 Hard to beat that location for your first concert – or any concert.\u00a0 The second cool fact was that Dave Grohl played the concert seated on a special “throne” because he had broken his leg.\u00a0 No one does that, they all cancel their tours, but not him, it was “the show must go on!”<\/p>\n
It was fun watching you during the concert; it is a bit of a shock to the system. After the concert you commented on the number of “f-bombs” that had been thrown out (there were a lot, but as your Dad pointed out, nothing you hadn’t heard before at school) and how loud it was.\u00a0 As the days went by, you told all your friends about it and thought it was a very cool experience.<\/p>\n
I’ll always treasure this photo of the three of us, taken minutes after arriving.\u00a0 There you are at the age of nine, your Dad at 37 and me at 61 years old.\u00a0 Three generations of rock and rollers.\u00a0 I hope we get to see a lot of other rock concerts together in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
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