Dave Grohl Explains the Fan Letter He Once Penned to Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye [WATCH]

Last week, Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye revealed 14-year-old Dave Grohl's fan letter that he acquired through the mail. The Foo Fighters front man and former Nirvana drummer detailed the written attempt at fame in a video interview with NME.

Grohl detailed that the main reason behind writing the letter to his rock hero was due to his harbored hopes of getting his band Mission Impossible onto the label set up by MacKaye in 1980, Dischord Records. He continued to explain he still holds onto that dream, as he jokingly admitted. "I'm telling you, if the Foos could do a Dischord single, then we could break up. Done deal," and that his 'handwriting is still the same."

After all of these years, MacKaye held onto the letter for whatever reason, but Grohl seemed to have his own in mind. "Ian MacKaye is a meticulous collector. If you go to his house, he has everything—all of the little old four-track tapes from, like, Minor Threat and Bad Brains. He has everything. He sure as shit didn't keep it because he thought something was going to happen," reports Pitchfork.

In the letter, "David" Grohl listed a area-code-less phone number and hours of contact between 3 and 10 p.m. The rocker confirmed the specific timing was due to his middle school schedule during the day and because he "didn't want to wake up my mom at night."

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