Dave Grohl: I Still Can’t Listen To Nirvana
9 April 2019, 06:00 | Updated: 9 April 2019, 15:21
The Foo Fighters frontman has admitted he still finds it thinking about his former bandmate Kurt Cobain.
“For years I couldn't even listen to any music, let alone a Nirvana song,” he said.
“When Kurt died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart. I don't put Nirvana records on, no. Although they are always on somewhere. I get in the car, they're on. I go into a shop, they're on. For me, it's so personal."
“I remember everything about those records; I remember the shorts I was wearing when we recorded them or that it snowed that day. Still, I go back and find new meanings to Kurt's lyrics.
“Not to seem revisionist, but there are times when it hits me. You go, 'Wow, I didn't realise he was feeling that way at the time’.”
The legend, who plays London and Manchester with Foo Fighters next month, also recalled the impact that being in such a successful band had on him.
"Nirvana, for me, was a personal revolution, I was 21. You remember being 21? You think you know it all. But you don't. I thought I knew everything. And being in Nirvana showed me how little I really knew.
“They were some of the greatest highs of my life, but also, of course, one of the biggest lows.”
