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A short, sharp, excoriatingly-good recording has emerged of a young Dave Grohl absolutely wailing on the drum kit in one his first bands, the Washington DC-based Mission Impossible.

You may well have heard people banging on about Grohl’s more famous pre-Nirvana combo, called Scream, who had their first album reissued last year.

Anyway, film-maker Scott Crawford, who made a whole documentary back in 2014 about the DC punk scene around that period, has just shared a mega-rare cut from the Foo frontman’s nascent post hardcore combo.

Get your ears around this sub-two-minute slice of near-the-knuckle naughtiness:

Starts off gently enough, all sparse crash cymbals and kicks, whatevs.

But zoom ahead to around 30 seconds in for an earful of Grohl, pre-fame, absolutely beating the fuck out of his drumkit like it owes him money.

Also shout-out to the singer and his funny cod British accent.

“Mission Impossible were a phenomenal, albeit short-lived, live band,” documentarian Crawford said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “I went to several of their practices in Virginia and just sat back and watch them go nuts. They were all superb musicians and watching Dave behind the drum kit was always a thrill.”

Crawford is releasing a soundtrack album imminently, as his life’s work is apparently bringing “…important bands from D.C. whose music defined the era for me” to wider attention.

“Plus, I felt like their music would resonate now with listeners all around the world. At its core, this music is timeless.”

The perfect stocking filler for that person in your life who idolises punk, and/or Dave Grohl, and especially young, mental-bastard-nuking-a-drumkit-into-oblivion Dave Grohl.

Hey look, a tracklist!

Salad Days Tracklist:

01. Jawbox – Motorist
02. Shudder to Think – Chocolate
03. Double-0 – Death of a Friend
04. Holy Rollers – What You Said
05. Mission Impossible – Now I’m Alone
06. Youth Brigade – It’s About Time That We Had a Change
07. Kingface – Tired
08. Gray Matter – Swann Street” (Live at the Black Cat, 2013)
09. Swiz – Godspeed
10. Government Issue – Where You Live
11. Marginal Man – Under a Shadow
12. United Mutation – Sensations Fix
13. Black Market Baby – Downward Christian Soldiers
14. Fire Party – Drowning Intentions
15. Soulside – Name in Mind
16. Iron Cross – You’re a Rebel
17. Void – Who Are You
18. HR – Epilogue

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