I hadn’t heard this story until just yesterday but a teenage Irish hitchhiker is at least partly responsible for helping to launch the Foo Fighters. The story goes that Dave Grohl was trying to get lost and take a break somewhere in Ireland not too long after Kurt had died by suicide, when he was driving and a teenage hitchhiker came running up to the car wearing a black and white tie-dyed Nirvana t-shirt with Kurt’s picture on it. And I’ll let them tell the rest of the story:
No word yet on if this has made it back to Dave but if it does I’m willing to bet he invites this guy to a show when they’re back in Ireland.