"It was like having your ass lifted in the air as if by magic."
This was Washington DC-born jazz musician Reuben Radding's biggest memory of his first jam session with Dave Grohl, at the drummer's family home in Virginia in autumn 1985. Grohl's previous band, Mission Impossible, featuring Radding's best friend Dave Smith on bass, had just broken up due to vocalist Chris Page and guitarist Bryant Mason moving away to start university studies, and with Radding's own band Age Of Consent also recently disbanded, an invitation was extended to the 18-year-old to come hang out at Grohl's mom's house in Springfield.
