A song from Dave Grohl's early solo work has surfaced and it's downright funky. "Hooker on the Street" is one of 40 tracks Grohl wrote toward the end of Nirvana. The song played in Friday, Nov. 28's episode of the singer's HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways in which his current band visits Seattle, Washington, Consequence of Sound noted.
The song shows off Grohl's ever-present sense of humor while offering an impressive look into some of the singer's influences. The Foo Fighters frontman does his best James Brown over a Jane's Addiction melody, and he even busts out some Glenn Danzig during the tune. Check it out below.
During the episode, Grohl recalls Kurt Cobain's reaction to some of his early demo work — some of it would be featured on the debut album for the Foo Fighters in 1995.
"Kurt heard that, and kissed me on the face, as he was in a bath," Grohl said. "He was so excited. He was like, 'I heard you recorded some stuff with Barrett [Jones].' I was like, 'Yeah.' He was like, 'Let me hear it.' I was too afraid to be in the same room as he listened to it."
Nirvana came to an end in 1994 after Cobain took his own life. Grohl turned to music, heading to Seattle to record the self-titled debut for his new band. Twenty years later, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders: for the fags, for the fat girls, for the broken toys, the shy nerds, the Goth kids from Tennessee and Kentucky, for the rockers and the awkward, for the fed-up, the too-smart kids and the bullied. We were a community, a generation — in Nirvana's case, several generations — in the echo chamber of that collective howl, and Allen Ginsberg would have been very proud, here," R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe said about Nirvana at the ceremony.
