Dave Grohl looks back on the beginnings of Nirvana.
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The Foo Fighters frontman sat down with Krist Novoselic and producer Steve Albini on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast on Monday to discuss the grunge band’s success. When discussing the creation of Nirvana, the Learn To Fly singer said he lived with the late Kurt Cobain.
“Before we made Nevermind, we lived in poverty,” he explained. I lived with Kurt in this tiny apartment and there were sausages, donut sticks and cigarettes everywhere. It was fucking disgusting. I would have done anything to have my own apartment, including making music. »
While the 54-year-old star says Nirvana grew from “three kids touring in a van into a big band,” he added that they were far from overnight success. “We didn’t have $1 million in our mailbox the next day. The daily allowance rose to $15 per day. We stayed in motels. And then, from September to December 1991, everything exploded,” the rocker explained.
Dave Grohl added that the band’s third album, In Utero, had become “the uncomfortable soundtrack of this transition.” “In 1992 or 1993 we lived in a different world than we had 16 months before,” he adds.
Nirvana released a 30th anniversary edition of In Utero this month. This album marks the band’s final release of original music before Kurt Cobain committed suicide in April 1994 at the age of 27 after battling drug addiction and depression.