1990
Maximumrocknroll · Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia
Became famous
Draft. The ad text below is a paraphrase from documented sources. A curator will replace it with the verbatim wording once we've checked an archive scan. The outcome and citation are otherwise accurate.
classified · as printed
Hardcore band Scream seeks new drummer. Touring band. Own kit, willingness to live in a van. Call Skeeter or Franz.
What happened next
Dave Grohl was a teenager in Virginia when he answered. He toured with Scream for almost two years before the band stalled, then joined Nirvana in September 1990. Eight years later, in a parallel life nobody saw coming, he started Foo Fighters.
Source
Maximumrocknroll classifieds, c.1990. Per multiple Dave Grohl interviews and Foo Fighters / Nirvana biographies.
Further
cite this ad
“Hardcore band Scream seeks new drummer. Touring band. Own kit, willingness to live in a van. Call Skeeter or Franz.” — Maximumrocknroll, 1990. Musolist museum, /museum/dc-hardcore/scream-drummer-mrr-1990.