Foo Fighters were formed back in 1994, and now 30 years later the hitchiking teenager from Ireland responsible for inspiring Dave Grohl to start the band following the death of his Nirvana bandmate, Kurt Cobain has been found.
On multiple occasions Grohl has spoken about retreating to Ireland's The Ring of Kerry in 1994 to "disappear" and do some "soul searching," when he passed an unknown hitchhiker on a road wearing a Cobain shirt that sparked the idea to form Foo Fighters.
"As I was coming around this country road, I saw a hitchhiker and I thought, you know he was young and it was sort of raining and I thought, 'Well, maybe I’ll pick him up," he told The Ryan Turbidy Show in 2021. "And as I got closer, I noticed that he had a Kurt Cobain t-shirt on and that was the moment where I realised, you know, I need to go home and figure this out. And that’s when I started the Foo Fighters."
Yesterday (August 15) on X, Eoin Tighe (@eointighe) revealed his cousin, Lorcan Dunne, to be the Irish hitchhiker from Grohl's story.
"So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of Foo Fighters," Tighe writes. "He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland. Lorcan was out hitchhiking wearing his nirvana top when Dave stopped."
Tighe shared a photo of his cousin in his Kurt Cobain tee, along with a video of Dunne recounting the story. See it below.
So my legend of a cousin Lorcan just realised he was kind of important to the creation of @foofighters @FooFightersUK He saw a video by Dave Grohl talking about why he got back to work after a visit to Ireland. Lorcan was out hitchhiking wearing his nirvana top when Dave stopped pic.twitter.com/nD7cUE0w8w
— Eoin Tighe (@eointighe) August 15, 2024