there was one day when we were driving and a nirvana song came on
and my daughter harper who's 12 years old she said what was kurt like
talking of connor looking back and that's part of the book the fact that uh nevermind has celebrated
its 30th anniversary recently it's such a seminal album and it's it's loved by so many people it's
a game changer around the world but for you dave being in the band does it feel like 30 years ago
or is it a case where it just feels like yesterday it feels like lifetimes ago i feel like i've lived
a few lifetimes since then but i don't necessarily feel any different than i did then i was 22 when
that record came out i feel 22 until i look in the mirror i'm like oh i'm not 22 anymore um but
no i mean to me nirvana really was three people with with some instruments that made a big noise
and we drove around in fans and we played in clubs and we did things like that and then it
became something else you know i look at nirvana much differently than someone else might but
you know it's become such a big part of popular culture so everywhere i go i see it i mean i'll
i'll walk down the street and i'll see a you know a 12 year old kid and an t-shirt and then i'll get
in the car and the nirvana song comes on and then you know every five years there's an anniversary
and i talk about it and i love talking about it it's great so it's kind of taken on this much
larger life than it did when we were just three guys driving around in a van but yeah i mean i'm
52 years old now i and and back then i never imagined that i would still be here doing this
still 30 years later i feel like i'm i might uh need to sort of branch off and find another line
of work talk about seeing 12 year olds wearing nevada t-shirts i see that myself all of the time
what about when you hear smells like teen spirit come on the radio or something like that does it
evoke special memories for you or do you hear those songs so frequently because they are
omnipresent that it just kind of washes over you in a way when i hear a nirvana song on the radio
i remember what it felt like sitting in the chair as we were recording it like i remember
when butch vig said like okay we're rolling and then it's like wow
like i remember i can see it in my head as we were doing it i was facing the control room and i could
see butch and kurt was over there so when i hear those songs i have a much more sort of like vivid
personal memory of of how it was made and when we made it um so you know there was a long time where
a song would come on and i would just turn it off i don't hear i i don't want to hear that bring
back like really difficult memories but now you know like i'll be driving with my kids in the car
a nirvana song will come on and they'll start singing it and they know the words and we
don't listen to it at home you know but somehow it's become a part of their lives now and it's
cool actually there was one day this is really beautiful there was one day when we were driving
and a nirvana song came on and my daughter harper who's 12 years old she said she said dad how old
were you when you were in this band i said well uh i i was probably 21 or 22 when we recorded it it
was come as you are and she was singing along with the song and she said what was kurt like
and i said well i said he was really he was very sweet you know he was he's kind of shy you know a
little reserved and and uh could be sort of quiet and she said wow was he shy to uh people he didn't
know or to people he did know and i said well a little bit of both and she said she said wow
that's that's really interesting that someone that could be so shy could write these songs and stand
in front of hundreds of thousands of people and sing them and i thought what a beautiful insight
for a 12 year old who's also a little shy to consider that but but it was really cool because
she you know she was asking me about about my life then because she wanted to understand it
through the music i thought it was very very cool but i'm watching them experience it and learn
it now and it's it's crazy it's it's this an entirely different generation 30 years later
who still will listen to that record and feel the same as as a kid did back then