DAVE GROHL SAYS NIRVANA’S REUNION WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS A ‘HOLY FUCK’ MOMENT
In a new interview with Telegraph.co.uk, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl discussed Nirvana’s reunion and collaboration with Paul McCartney, “The other day I was cleaning out my garage and I found the journal from the week I decided to make the movie. I wrote out an outline and it’s exactly the movie we made. I’m so amazed. There were times when we didn’t know what was going to happen, like put Paul McCartney in a room with Nirvana and cross your fingers that something cool happens.” Grohl added, “If it had only been a day in the studio and no one had ever seen it or heard it and I had never done it again, I would die a happy man. Just the fact that it happened, to me, was enough.”
Grohl discussed the significance of the McCartney/Nirvana portion of the Sound City film where Nirvana and McCartney are shown writing their song, “The McCartney song was the biggest secret (in the project). A few things leaked out, but the McCartney thing — we couldn’t give (that information) away because this is — spoiler alert — THE moment. At the first few test screenings we did, the moment where Paul appears there were audible gasps in the room. When we were editing that segment, I said ‘I don’t want a holy shit moment, I want a HOLY FUCK moment.’ I was at a screening in Salt Lake City (Jan. 22) and that moment he appears onscreen, you could just hear (the audience say) ‘Jesus Christ’ as if the thing couldn’t be tied up in a more beautiful bow than that. It really creates a cool moment.”
“There were times when we didn’t know what was going to happen, like put Paul McCartney IN A ROOM WITH NIRVANA and cross your fingers that something cool happens.”
Nirvana being together again has always been one of my biggest dreams. Couldn’t ask for a better way for that reality to happen.
Thanks for the story
Grohl talks like he’s been the biggest part of Nirvana. Shut the fuck up you arrogant good-for-nothing pop-rock star. You make lousy music (Put aside QOTSA and Them Crooked Vultures) and you think you’re all hot shit.
Cobain made nirvana. You didn’t put in shit.
McSpoochen
grow up you little prick. Kurt, were he still alive, would be whoring himself around in a more embarrassing way than Courtney in order to stay ‘relevant’. Grohl has the respect of most of the important names in modern music, including the big legends like Mcacartney.
Grohl, in twenty years time, will be remembered far more fondly and held in more reverence than that contradictory, junkie piece of shit ever will.
While it takes more then one person to make a band. So while I don’t agree with Cobain or Grohl making the band the greatness it became. I do believe that Nirvana wouldn’t be what they became without Grohl. Just listen to Nirvana before Grohl got on drums. Then come back and talk shit about Grohl…
Super leeds
You really think that way? You must be retarded or something. It’s not about the music Cobain made, even though he was a far, FAR more skilled lyricist (And a better guitar player too, and he wasn’t that great.) it’s about the symbolic of the band itself, their achievements and contribution to the world of music. Since Nirvana Grohl didn’t contribute shit but here and there, and Foo Fighters fucking suck balls, seriously. Some people still describe him as “Oh that Nirvana drummer”. Check out Pearl Jam’s song Immortality. Fucking douchebag.
Calvin McLain
Bleach was a great album, so you can suck my balls dry. Nirvana was purely Cobain. I don’t adore Nirvana, I think they’re not as good as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, in fact. But I can recognize what Cobain contributed to the world, musically.
Symbolic atmosphere*
Did anyone really need Dave to tell us that? I mean, those were the first two words out of my mouth before they even hit the first note and I’ve been saying it every viewing (countless at this point with the addition o the SNL performance).
@ McShpoochen
Wow, I’ve never heard someone use “suck my balls” more times than Cartman of SP. But it was kind of hard to understand what you were trying to convey.
So if you could, TAKE THE GUN OUT OF YOUR MOUTH,and repost something that is more analytical than “You make lousy music” or “Grohl didn’t contribute shit”. You’re NOT a credited journalist, YOUR OPINION DOES NOT MATTER.
If I to rate all the Nirvana and Foo Fighters albums, it would like this:
Nirvana:
Bleach: B
Nevermind: +A
Incesticide: A
In Utero: +B
Foo Fighters:
Foo Fighters: B
The Colour and the Shape: C
There Is Nothing Left to Lose: D
One by One: F
In Your Honor: F
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace: D
Wasting Light: C
McShpoochen, STFU. No one wants to read your uninformed comments. The Foo Fighters will never have Nirvana’s legendary status, but their music shows more breadth and technical acumen, and if you’re a rock fan you can appreciate the Foos on some level.
In Utero +B while Nevermind gets +A?
In Utero is a brilliant album. Way better than Nevermind.
McLovin, you don’t need someone writing in a pure, curse-free language to understand that he’s opinion about Foo Fighters is clear – their music is garbage. The lowest kind. “Rock” music for 13 year olds. No sophistication, no lyrical prowess, nothing worth remembering. In fact, it should lay down in the dripping essence of what’s bad in today’s music.
Dave Grohl is a great drummer. As a person, he fucking sucks. And he uses the fact he is a great drummer to stick his face everywhere he can. He’s an arrogant son of a bitch who deserves way less attention than he forcefully gets. He fucking inducts Rush to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Are you fucking kidding me? Rush’s music was brilliant as it got and Neil Peart forgot more about drumming than Grohl will ever learn, whole different class and level.
I’m sick and tired of seeing his stupid condescending face everywhere he wants to stick it in. Should quit Foo Fighters, his guitar, his vocals, his lyrics and just sit behind a fucking drum kit and play what he knows best. (The one thing he does know, musically)
Am I clear to you this time?
mcSpoochen, you are full of shit. Listen to Nirvana without the rose tinted spectacles and you’d realise that apart from Nevermind the music has aged horribly. it’s derivative, badly produced and for the most part, really dull. I agree entirely that they pale in comparison to Pearl Jam, but I’d also extend that to the Foo Fighters, who have had their fair share of dodgy moments, but now have the back catalogue to prove that Dave Grohl is one of the great songwriters.
as for the music for 13 year olds comment – that really should apply to the entirity of Bleach. An album comprising of one good song (About a Girl) and some excruciatingly awful, lowest common denominator shite. This is the album that sounds like it was written by a 13 year old.
And please don’t get me started on the Immortality argument – Vedder wrote it as some kind of misguided apology to Cobain in 1994. I’m sure the 2013 Vedder would have a slightly different take on matters…
The 2013 Vedder tours with a ukelele. So?
Nirvana is overrated. It is. Cobain was an amazing songwriter. He was.
Dave Grohl didn’t write one good song with Foo Fighters and I’ve heard enough.
Bleach has great songs in it – about a girl, love buzz, scoff, mr. moustace, big cheese and blew. Moreover, it was REVOLUTIONARY. It might sound mediocre if you look at it production-wise, it might be really hard and monotonous at points, but it’s fucking great. You probably don’t like it hard, seeing how you mentioned About a Girl as the only song you think is good from the album adding to the fact you think Foo Fighters are indication that Grohl is a great songwriter.
Great songwriters? John Lennon, Neil Peart, Maynard, Alex Turner, KURT COBAIN. Take Chris Cornell. He’s not known to be such a good lyricist, because he’s not, even though he wrote masterpieces like Hands All Over and Limo Wreck. He’s known for his wide vocal range, and he’s a pretty decent guitar player. Now take Vedder – he can’t play for shit pro-wise, but he’s a great songwriter, he truly is. Now take Layne. He wrote some great songs, even though he wasn’t the key songwriter in that band. (Man in the Box, I Know Something, Love, Hate, Love, Confusion and that’s just from fucking Facelift)
now take Cobain. He was a decent guitar player at best, but a fucking terrific songwriter. Take a look, In Utero:
Serve the Servants – amazing.
Heart-Shaped Box – amazing.
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle – amazing.
Pennyroyal Tea – amazing.
More? Milk it. Very Ape. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. Almost if not all of the songs on that fucking masterpiece of an album lyrically-wise. Just kick back, show some respect. Dave Grohl will never acquire the skills or the imagination to write like the best.
LMAO at Kurt Cobain being a “terrific” songwriter. Kurt’s lyrics were the weakest part of Nirvana’s music. He even said so himself that “That music comes first, lyrics come second.” Sure some of his songs had puzzles and mindgames to them, but he was a terrible lyricist. Cobain could have never shot himself and still never be able to write a song half as good as Soundgarden’s “Fell On Black Days,” or Smashing Pumpkins’s “Tonight, Tonight.”
fuckyou grohl, you are nothing i dont even remember your last good album…wich?? one by one? i think…this guys always talk like he is a god of rock its a asshole and wasting light embarrasing album i spit on it.
If you’re comparing songs lyrically to Soundgarden songs, then try those I mentioned – Limo Wreck for instance. Fell On Black Days is far inferior to songs like Pennyroyal tea.
Foo Fighters suck balls, pop-rock for kids.
Grohl is an arrogant prick and a lousy, LOUSY songwriter.
If you think Cobain is a bad songwriter you’re the ones who need a shot in the head.
Foo Fighters show more breadth and technical acumen? Woopdi-fucking-do.
They play fast, they play strong. So what? That does not indicate musical understanding. I say that as a drummer who’s obviously not close to Hawkins’ level but still think Hawkins is a piece of shit drummer that can play simple times really fast so it sounds complicated.
Try listening to some Tool, Porcupine Tree… Fucking Foo Fighters. Good God.
Mc Shpoochen, I hate the Foo Fighters, but I’m just pointing how overrated Kurt Cobain was a songwriter.
Butthead, vwery appropiate nick name. XD
Cobain was a brilliant lyricist, no matter what he said about music being more important than lyrics since he also write 99’9% of Nirvana’s music.
And yes, Nirvana were far better than the FF, and that was mainly because of KC, with all due respect to Krist and Dave.
An I like the FF and I like and respect Dave, but Nirvana was mainly KC in every possible aspect, we could theorize all day about if “Cobain would have been whoring out as much as Courtney if hadn’t killed himself”, who fucking knows, maybe he would have become an asshole, he could have started a brilliant or mediocre solo career, he could have divorced Love and quit drugs, we just don’t know, so stop talking shit.
Jesus, you guys sound like a bunch of blabbering idiots. I want the last 2 minutes of my life back.
Layne and Cobain=terrific songwriters
new song with Paulie Mc sucked donkey balls
Nirvana is as good or better than the others for several reason, and while Alice In Chains may be the best of the grunge musicians, they wrote great songs but Nirvana and Alice In Chains in my opinion are more rock (though AIC are metal too) than some other bands. Some people don’t like Nirvana, and I accept that but I also don’t care because I love Nirvana and they were a great band. The way Kurt died was tragic, extremely sad for me, and I really admire him. I wish he hadn’t done drugs, and I feel the same way about Layne, and it really messed up two of the best grunge bands, but their legacy and all they did will continue and I’ll always be thinking about them, and get a big positive when I think about them.
sorry i meant several reasons.
absolutely holy fuck. I love it. PSY SHOULD HAVE MADE OPPHAN NIRVANA STYLE!!!!!
Scott/ I dont think people of my generation didnt buy Nirvana albums, only because of the death. And me too. They are not overrated.
McShpoochen, I don’t think you know the meaning of the word condescending. A lot of things come to my mind when I think of Dave Grohl, some good & some bad but condescending is not one of them. (& yes, I have met him personally, he was the nicest most gracious rock star I’ve ever met in my life – a very considerate person who gave all the fans in the area time to say hello & thanked us all personally for coming to his show. That’s not condescending)
It’s clear you have much contempt for Dave Grohl. . . . . so why the hell are you clicking on links abut him, reading the article & then posting as many comments as you do?
Kind of hard not to come off as a loser troll trying to start shit.
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