From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

Reading this book really made me wish I was friends with Ginny. She has such a comfortable style of getting life details from the Moms she spoke with. And what a cool idea she came up with for this book. Talking to Moms of famous musicians. How the Moms and Musicians life’s started, and the highs and lows in their lives. I loved that Ginny didn’t judge but she got out the details without pitty or shame. Plus I loved reading the Forward written by Dave. Seeing the personal family photos of all the families in the book was really fun. Plus Ginny told how Dave started his love of Music and how she gave him the freedom to give music as a job a try. She didn’t punish him for not doing great in subjects he didn’t like. She allowed him to drop out of school to tour with his first band. I can’t say enough about how much I appreciate this book.

Fast delivery, well-packaged. Just getting into this book, but I know I'm gonna be hooked! I love David Grohl and all that he's done in his life and with his family. I am sure that because he's a cool extension of his mom, she was too and had the foresight and determination to write this book. Awesome, Mom!!!!

Got this for my Granddaughter. She likes it. I may read it too! Dave's Mom is very cool.

It's a lovely book, written by the lovely mother of an adorable son, that happens to be a rocker I'm fond of. Those stories are compelling, and it's very interesting to learn about most of these mothers' past and present. There's only one little default, minor that is: these stories are short, one only gets to touch the surface of these lives, and as an avid reader it got me a bit frustrated. I guess "sweet Virginia" did the best she could do, or maybe this is only what one gets with this kind of book. Anyway I enjoyed it. I wish there was more to it, so why not making another effort Mrs Grohl, with FCTS #2?!

Last year, my son tagged me in a link to the pre-order feature on Amazon for "From Cradle to Stage". I bit and checked it out and pre-ordere the book. Then began the months-long wait. Finally, Amazon sent word that the book would arrive by April 28th. I was excited when the book actually showed up April 21st. I woke up my night owl son by tossing the box on his bed, and then spent the next few minutes listening to his zealous whoops as he read the table of contents. I finally had a chance to sit down and read the book cover-to-cover today (after a cat startled me into splashing a few pages a glass of milk and I had to pry the pages apart--damn it). I just finished the book, and I have to say it is a fantastic piece of work. As a sister and as a mother of passionate drummers, it resonates with my soul. I grew up with my little brother's drum kit set up in our dining room, listening to him pounding out beat after beat either alone or with his band mates for hours on end--he grew up to be a computer programmer, but I understand the intensity that Mrs. Grohl describes. Jon filled his basement with his homemade risers and two drum kits merged into one, and with his handmade guitar rack holding his guitars alongside the amps and other equipment--now that we have lost him all too soon to a senseless murder, my children have inherited his precious drum kit. Of my four children, two are drummers--my night owl son and my daughter (who also dabbles with violin, keyboard, and any other instrument that peaks her interest). My son attended his first Foo Fighters concert last year, and he raves about it and Dave Grohl frequently--to say it made it an impact on him is putting it mildly. Tambour is the type of child Mrs. Grohl describes in her book--gifted but unfocused in school, passionate and dancing to a different beat. The boy never wanted to sleep, and to this day he can always find something more interesting to do with his time than sleep or eat. When he sits still long enough to read this book, I know I am going to hear about it for not turning him loose to forego education for a stage. So maybe the connection I felt to the book has something to do with all of that, or maybe it is the fact that I was once a special education teacher who focused on the children who were "too smart for their own good" and labeled as behavior disordered when they truly belonged in the gifted category. Thank you, Mrs. Grohl, for writing this book--it was sorely needed and greatly appreciated!

This book is a MUST READ for all mom’s (and Dad’s) whom, some without ever realizing it, encouraged, supported, inspired, their children to do embrace and focus on their natural talents and musical abilities. Who were teaching their kids music appreciation in THE CAR of all places.Who used music and taught there kids how to spell, count, and about historical moments that may have never got or their attention in a history class in school.For the parents who allowed their kids to be kids and to just BE and never pushed them to become WHAT or WHOM they wanted them to become.To the parent’s who yelled out of sheer frustration, “GET OUT OF MY HAIR AND GO SOMETHING TO DO.”I yelled that A LOT while I was raising my boys. But the last time I yelled that at them…it stuck and what came from that moment, astounds me until this day.It does not matter if your musician child is famous at all. My goal was never to make fame their goal. My goal was and still is to keep playin. Keep learning and to enjoy music. ALWAYS.I am so inspired by this book and the stories shared by all the mamma’s of musicians…I plan to sit down and write my story. It may never become a book or a movie. I will leave it for my boys to find and read someday.My guys are now 24 and 25 and they’re still playin. My husband and I did not know at the time that we created a rhythm section.A drummer and bassist and their damn good. Like scary good and they don’t realize how good they really are. They play because they love to play and that my friends is what it’s all about.Like I always tell them…I AM and always will be YOUR BIGGEST FAN.This is an awesome book. I love it!

Fantastically written and such a great perspective from the parents of musicians

A really good book

Als tiefer Nirvana-Fan und durch die schreibweise hat mich das Buch nicht nur einmm Mal zu Tränen gerührt.Toll geschrieben!Ich hätte mir noch Billy Joe Armstrong gewünscht...Der ehrliche aber respektvolle Umgang mit Amy und Kurt sind super.Gerne mehr!

Essential reading for budding musicians, and especially for reluctant parents, as former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters' founder-guitarist, Dave Grohl's mother, Virginia Hanlon Grohl, shares her first-hand experience of raising her family and her son, Dave, resulting in a change in her scepticism to her son's success. Mrs. Grohl also interviews the mothers of Dr. Dre, Pharrell Williams, Maroon 5's Adam Levine, among other musicians cutting across several genres, and finds a remarkable thread between them, culminating in the platinum-selling - and global - success of their respective child. This book certainly deserves to be considered as a collectors' item!

Davvero un bel libro per gli amanti del genere