Asked to pinpoint one album that inspired him to begin playing drums, Grohl selected Rush’s classic 2112 set, an album he was introduced to at age nine by his cousin Trip, while on a family visit to Chicago. Grohl took the record back home to Virginia with him and fell in love with Neil Peart’s “innovative” drumming. “It was really the first time I ever heard a drummer in the forefront of the band,” he recalled. In a nice life-turning-full-circle moment, in 2013 Grohl and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins inducted the Canadian rock legends into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and also performed a section of 2112 with the band.