Dave Grohl, the former drummer for Nirvana and current Foo Fighters frontman, has a Medium site where he occasionally shares stories about his life. One from April 22 caught my eye as it claims Grandma Grohl sent Dave an article in the Vindicator about the Los Angeles punk band X playing here and what that meant to their family tree.
Grohl apparently received this letter at some point in 1992 after returning to his mom’s house in Virginia after a world tour (Nirvana did two that year). I looked for the article in the Vindicator archives (now somewhat searchable through the Mahoning County Public Library’s site) and came up empty regarding that article. X’s concert past isn’t well documented online but in the early ’90s it was not that active.
Primarily a West Coast band who would play somewhat larger rooms than what Youngstown could offer in the early 1990s, I find this particular item a bit odd. If anyone can remember if this really happened, let me know the details so I can find the article in question.
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