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Nirvana would rise to prominence in the early 90’s due to the astronomical success of their
second album 1991’s Nevermind. Two years later though amongst
all the band’s success and internal tensions that came along with it,
drummer Dave Grohl briefly quit the band. That’s what were going to discuss in today’s video.
In the biography This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl,
author Paul Brannigan would reveal that tensions in Nirvana’s camp came to a head
in 1993. Brannigan would claim in his book that by this point there were two camps:
the rhythm section which consisted of Dave Grohl and Krist Novaselic and Cobain and his
wife Courtney Love. In other interviews Grohl talked about the camps saying there was the
group who did drugs and those who didn’t. He was a member of the ones who didn’t.
Grohl would tell Vulture years after the book came out that the band was
on a plane ride between Seattle and Los Angeles to start work on production on
their in-utero tour. Grohl at the time was sitting a few rows ahead of co-founders
Krist Novaselic and Kurt Cobain when he overheard the two talking.
Grohl would tell the author Paul Brannigan"Kurt was kinda
f---ed up. And I heard him talking about how s----y a drummer I was."
In a separate interview Grohl would tell Vulture “I could hear Kurt saying,
‘I think we need a drummer that’s more rudimental,
along the lines of Dan Peters,’ who was the guy they almost hired,” “I was really upset
because I thought things were okay.” Peters had already played in Nirvana prior to Grohl joining.
There’s been two differing versions of what happened next.
According to Brannigan’s book which involved interviews with Grohl he would claim that
As the plane touched down, Grohl who was allegedly upset telling Nirvana’s
tour manager Alex McLeod that he was quitting the band and was quoted as saying
"I just want to f---ing play music. I don't want to have to deal with any of this craziness,"
Fortunately for the band Grohl’s exit would be short lived after Mcleod convinced him
to stay in the group. The book’s author would claim that Grohl briefly quitting
the band likely never reached kurt with the author writing "In the cold light of day,
Dave decided that everyone has to eat a little s--- at work sometimes,"
However years later Grohl would tell Vulture a slightly different version of events
I talked to Krist, and I said, ‘Is that really what you guys want to do? Because if that’s what
you want, maybe just let me know, and we can call it a day,’” “I eventually talked to Kurt about it,
and he said, ‘No. That’s not what we want to do.’ I just felt like,
‘It’s up to you guys what kind of drummer you really want, and they decided I should stay.’”
Brannigan would conclude in his book that if Cobain was still alive today
that Nirvana would likely still be around, but Grohl wouldn’t have been a part of it
stating and i quote "Dave was very aware that Nirvana was Kurt and Krist's band,
and that as lifelong friends, they shared a bond which went beyond music," he says. "At
some point I feel that Dave would have parted company with the pair.