The sound of Nirvana

as grohl played the smells like teen spirit beat, it used up his last remaining store of coolness. he's been post-cool ever since

the drum intro to teen spirit always vaguely remind me of a syncopated version of motown, a la “ain’t too proud to beg”

maybe that’s what the gap band was doing too, idk

Grohl's best drumming is on Songs for the Deaf by QOTSA

that was also one of his favorite albums to drum on iirc

lol, Gap Band. He could have just as easily said, like, Not Just Knee Deep or something.

Gap Band rule

Grohl's best drumming is on Songs for the Deaf by QOTSA

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, July 3, 2021 8:48 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^^^^^^

I'm sort of confused, so Grohl said he adapted a little drum fill from a Gap Band song and this is bad or a big deal why??

Skimmed this revive, but I think the answer is that it means ... nothing.

Skimmed this revive, but

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, July 4, 2021 6:14 AM (eleven minutes ago)

lol, Gap Band.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, July 4, 2021 5:51 AM (thirty-three minutes ago)

i just like calling him uncool because of his longtime cool guy standing

xp

xpost I skimmed the revive while out and about, saw Grohl cited the Gap Band for "Smells," and made fun of that. But I didn't read any further, per UMS, to see if this was a big deal or bad. You nerd.

I’m bloom riff drummage would have been a good follow up to the argument but as wufs points out above , it’s not grohls

I'm sort of confused, so Grohl said he adapted a little drum fill from a Gap Band song and this is bad or a big deal why??

Bc he is using his white male privilege to perpetrate epistemic violence through cultural appropriation.

Seriously, the Gap Band fill was one example he gave of what he was describing as a broader influence throughout at least that album - this isn't a bad thing in any way but I think it's also fair for listeners to discuss the extent to which we hear this.

So where else can we hear it on the album

EVERY ONE OF THOSE SONGS

I’m really sorry for this revive, I didn’t know it was an internet memey thing, I honestly just thought was two guys on the radio riffin on a Friday afternoon

Nah, it was fun to think about.

Honestly, had Cobain lived they should have done a remix album.

A taste of what could have been...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Deconstructed.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98O3osLqZ74

Interesting exchange at 37", hard not to read something into Kurt's look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqlocVZrKyw

Christ, that is a somber look.

just love the sound of Nirvana, sounding as good as ever 30 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRdc0OxUmYg

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-time-with-kurt-cobain

Azerrad reflects.

Given how important that book was to me at the time, quite a sobering peek behind the curtain of its conception and creation.

that was a great remembrance, thank you. the band mate on the ledge of the hotel (twice)...grohl or krist?

Krist, I’d bet

Happy 30th, Nevermind.

30 years!?!? Man.

Happy 30th loveless and...bandwagonesque

30 years!?!? Man.

Seriously. I actually have a distinct memory of when it turned TEN, and that seemed like yesterday.

(Re: the tenth anniversary, I remember it because Novoselic and Grohl were fighting Love who had blocked a tenth anniversary release of some kind, and Novoselic called her "the 'Osama Bin Laden' of the music industry." That stood out because 9/11 just happened and it was the first time I heard someone making a reference to it that wasn't serious and/or completely sober. I doubted Novoselic even said it until he repeated the same thing over and over again in the ensuing months.)

"the 'Osama Bin Laden' of the music industry."

this is kind of funny, lol

This was *really* good, aside from the occasional div talking about ‘rock bands today’ and rolling his eyes. Had no idea about the gig in a pub in Edinburgh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000zx9h

nice home video footage of the row of shops near Brook Green W6 as well, and the old Dome Cafe that i used to walk past. also mention of...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kebab+Machine/@51.4979246,-0.2225199,3a,75y,242.29h,91.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD3LEZXQKB0VT0iHPOUYOog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x48760fc618c8cb97:0x506c69141f3c6063!8m2!3d51.4978686!4d-0.2227072

i was at the Reading festival that first year but remember nothing about it. Babes in Toyland i remember and Chapterhead who played immediately after and i sure i would've remembered them doing Kiss Molly's Lips at the very least but nothing...

Chapterhouse, surely.

happy birthday to "drain you" the best song on nevermind :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zonurBhuZzE

on the same note, also happy 25th anniversary to 1991 dave grohl!

Listening to lots of live Nirvana today has reaffirmed that “School” absolutely f-ing destroys every time.

NO RECESS

That Azzerad article is the first I've heard of Kurt having any problems with Grohl's drumming, that's kind of fascinating.

Krist is such a cringey prick in old interviews, such a try hard and not remotely funny

Kurt's dissatisfaction started when he realized all Grohl's fills were stolen from the Gap Band.

lol
Chicka chicka chicka

Kurt more of a Brick man.

That Azzerad article is really sad. His book on Nirvana is a pretty bad, record-company-approved version of everything, and he pretty much admits that in the New Yorker piece. Sounds like he could write a great book about it all now, though.

That Azzerad article is the first I've heard of Kurt having any problems with Grohl's drumming, that's kind of fascinating.

From Grohl and others, Cobain whiplashed back and forth between praising and shitting all over Grohl's drumming. In the beginning he was thrilled, but eventually Cobain started complaining and I think Grohl himself recalled Cobain asking him directly to play more like Dale Crover or at least bringing Crover up as an example of what he wanted to hear. (I don't think Crover ever got complaints from Cobain because he was with them for a very short time.) But I think Grohl also said that before he died, Cobain told Grohl to his face that he was great.

Would imagine Kurt would have deferred to Crover being he was such a fan of the Melvins

Also '91 Crover was sick

Yeah, what little I've heard (or rather what exists) of the Crover "era" is pretty awesome.