Join Dave Grohl and Pat Smear As They Visit L.A.’s Holiest David Bowie Sites

chips I'm totally a 90s Church, let's go to playboy.com so that's the coffee bean where David Bowie signed right there yeah I always heard it was on that Jamba Juice oh do you want Pat Smear to

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Nirvana? He was working at SST Supermarket and Kurt walked in, yeah BM, the rest is history, no. I remember Kurt saying, I found our second guitarist, like, wow, who Pat germed us, we were like he was still alive. This was a long time ago. He was supposed to be dead then. Oh yeah, whose idea was it to play the man who sold the world right?

I think it was my idea. We were sitting in Kurt's living room going over memories of him. He said, "Let's pick a cover for her on the song unplugged," and he says, "Let's do a Bowie song." I love Bowie, I'm fine, cool, we're going through an ICS mass with Roy, he has to be off this record, he definitely picks one for this record and we decided on the man who sold the world in 1975, what was going on here, this wasn't a big rock'n'roll city it was free punk Wow, really until the 60's it blew up, everything calmed down, yes we actually saw it, but he was driving around in a beat up old VW Bug, we finally found out Oh, he's here recording, we've tracked him down to Cherokee Studios, he was doing the station, the station went there every day, we saw him get out of the car and go in, he dropped a cigarette like the Jetton cigar, it was actually my first Fake name and it's so bad to say it, JT's mistake. it was his last name it wasn't the hole now it was in it, yes and he dropped the butt and we ran to grab it and Darby made it a little small like a vile thing and Darby was already riding, he's writing letters and and - one day you can touch writings and he taped them to the windshield of his car in Bowie's car and received a letter complimenting his version of riding it.

He keeps doing this and that was that idea, but three germs, yeah, Bowie wrote a letter to Darby. yeah what Oh my god there are stalkers yeah alright we'll start with the Doheny House which is Bowie's house where he lived in 1975? Bowie supposedly lived on milk, peppers and cocaine to make one of these risks,

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are finished, that's how it is and it doesn't even look like someone with someone What is it? It looks like a mausoleum, yes, but there aren't many windows. The front door looks like a safe. Yeah, that's a weird looking place we were at every day just a few blocks down the street. at Joan Jets' house and dreaming of finding David Bowie somewhere and you had no idea he was here don't go, we have a walk around Joan Jets' house.

I'm going to show you how close it was hello Miss Joan, what's up work, it's me and Pat, we're driving around LA going to all these old Bowie places. We were right at Doheny's house, right next to your old house, the friend's house, right there, the pink house now, John, oh my God, well, now we're going to Rodney's English. nightclub which turns out to be Rodney's English nightclub again, it's been closed for decades and now there's an art gallery there and their art installation is a recreation of Rodney's, are you running well to see you? Oh, this is the original place, yeah, now it's part of The reason I had all these records was because of you because we didn't know what this was.

The radio didn't play it mm-hmm, well, other than your radio show, so it was Valentine's Day 1971, the guy David saying on a waterbed. sitting cross legged in his dress playing guitar making man he sold the entire world album and then even did hunky dory songs he hadn't even recorded that was his first performance in the pathogen room on his water bed, can? take us to all these places you want to go to these places go to these places take this this is a success here first concert in Los Angeles on a waterbed in that house yes, in the living room there was the waterbed always like yes, man of The '70s, Ronny, what ruined Sunset Strip?

Seen Charles Manson, no, no, the 90s. I asked you this once and you had an answer. What was parking in a park and it killed rock and roll? What is saving rock and roll? I like my answer now, I guess I should eat, yeah, where should we go? Let's go to the rainbow with a rainbow room. I'm really terrible at parking, backing up is the worst - girl, you look good, won't you back up with that ass? Well, won't you back off that ass? Calling with Big Daddy, when you come back, daddy, oh who you playing with, get that ass up.

I'm glad we're eating because I'll have three famous people, famous, famous people, right here, sit down, you've been to the rainbow before me. Did you try the garlic bread? No, it's a problem. Don't say it on camera. Did I ever tell you about my email exchange with Bowie? No, tell me about that email exchange with Bowie that we played at his 50th birthday party at Madison Square Garden and that was the last one. The first time I saw it was in 1997, about two years ago, this movie approached me to do a song for the movie, so I thought, well, maybe someone else will tell me I'll do the music and then I'll have another vocalist and I thought, well, maybe I'll ask around and see if David would want to do it, that's reaching the top, I know, so the next day I get an email and it says David.

I saw the movie and I have to be honest, it's not my thing, he said. I'm not cut out for these times so thanks, but I think I'm going to leave this out and I thought "ah, what a bummer" so I immediately emailed him and told him not to worry. I totally understand it. I hope it's okay and I will do it. Let's meet and I hit send and within a minute and a half I get an email from him and he says okay, that's fixed, ha, and I'm like, wow, he's kidding, like he can't say it, so I text him back. email and I said well I guess I'll see you in another 16 years and he immediately responds saying "don't hold your breath" so I send him one that says "no more birthday parties at Madison Square Garden" and he he answers me.

No more birthdays, I ran out of dark ones, but then he wrote, but that was a really fun night, wasn't it? And I didn't think about it until recently, when he passed away, it kind of made me wonder looking back at everything. If he felt like maybe he was running out of birthdays, you know, and not holding his breath, I wanted to say that it trips me up now that I think about it, but he would also do things like email me in March and say "well." happy new year Oh, three months late, this is what I remember about trying to learn, the man who sold the world, no one could understand it except you, no one could find that cable and you were like, oh no, it's like that and then, then , and then, and then. done and then and you fail you fail is when you don't get back up there is a moment when you think so much about someone that you need them