[KevinB]

I was one of those little freaks in his blue bedroom in the middle of a really conservative part Virginia feeling like I was just an alien.

He grew up in Northern Virginia, just a few minutes from DC. It was anything but "really conservative," even back then.

[x]

Northern Virginia counties were still voting for Reagan back then. Grohl’s father was an aide to Republican Senator Robert Taft Jr. Springfield wasn’t conservative at all by Virginia standards, but it wasn’t what it became later.