Dave Grohl Explains the Teenage Fan Letter He Wrote Ian MacKaye

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Last week, Dave Grohl shared a fan letter he wrote as a 14-year-old to Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi. In a video interview with NME, he explained the origin of the letter. You can watch it below.

Grohl says that the reason he wrote to MacKaye was because he wanted Dischord Records to put out the demo tape by his band at the time, Mission Impossible. It's a dream he still harbors, he admitted, joking, "I'm telling you, if the Foos could do a Dischord single, then we could break up. Done deal."

As for why MacKaye would still have the latter, Grohl said, "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."

He also pointed out that the strict instructions on the letter—call between 3 and 10!—were because he, as a 14-year old, was at school during the day. 

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