24 years on Kurt Cobain’s death, Dave Grohl has opened up about the lesson he learnt from the passing of the iconic rocker.
Earlier this year, Dave Grohl took part in an interview with GQ, reminiscing on his time in Nirvana, and discussing how the band’s music makes him feel today.
“Nirvana, for me, was a personal revolution, I was 21,” he explained. “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. Those experiences became a footing or a foundation on how to survive. For years I couldn’t even listen to any music, let alone a Nirvana song. When Kurt died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart.”
“I don’t put Nirvana records on, no,” he revealed. “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.”
Now, in a new interview with PBS Dave Grohl has opened up about what it was that he learnt from Kurt Cobain’s passing.
“When Kurt died, I remember the next day and thinking, ‘I still get to live’,” he recalled. “So I’m going to live every day like it’s my last one. Even if it’s the worst day, I’m gonna try to appreciate it.”
“And I still feel that way. I never wanna die. I honestly feel like if get to do this,” he explains, pointing to his guitars. “And I’ve got these beautiful kids… I’m all good. That’s how I feel.”
Back in October, surviving members of Nirvana reunited once again, with Joan Jett and Deer Tick’s John McCauley fronting the group during the Foo Fighters’ Cal Jam 18 spot.
“When Pat, Krist and I sat down to go through those songs in a small rehearsal room with concrete walls, it fuckin’ sounded like Nirvana,” Grohl explained a few days later. “It was like being shot into outer space. Being able to play that drum fill and break into the chorus… it’s spiritual, physical, emotional.”
“We would look at each other and smile, but the emotions would kind of go in waves, because there was someone missing – and you wish that you could still share those songs with Kurt.”
Check out Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’:
