The Music of Legendary Grunge-Rock Trio Nirvana Continues to be filled with plenty of backstories and loreEvent Years After the Death of Lead Man Kurt Cobain LED to the Band’s Final. There are the hydden song gems with Surpring Origins, some unexpected facts bend their successful album, and evening how a replacement Drummer Wound up Elevating the Group.
That drummer was Dave GrohlWho was eventually go on to his wildly successFul project as the frontman of the band foo fighters after nirvana’s demise. But 35 years ago, Grohl was just the latest on the sticks for the band (Nirvana’s Sixth Drummer at this Point) Playing His First Live Show As Part of their Mix.
What LED to Dave Grohl Joining Up With Nirvana
From 1988-1990, Chad Channing Wold Serve As Nirvana’s Drummer as the Group Began to Inch Toward Fame, Primarily Manning the Kit for Debut Lp Bleach As well as the Very Start of Demos for their Breakout Follow-Up Album Disgust. Howver, The Expanding Growth of Creative Differences BetWeen Channing and The Band (Especialy Cobain) Ultimately LED to Channing’s Dismissal.
Not Long AFTER Channing was let go, cobain and nirvana bassist Kristi novoselic Were First Introduced to Grohl’s Sound creed A Show Being Played by HIS Prior Group, The Hardcore Rock Act Scream. Novoselic and cobain were Reportedly immediately impressed by Grohl’s Approach and Technique, Wanting his Style for Nirvana.
Luck Was on The Band’s Side As Scream Wold Soon DissolveLeaving Grohl an Avilaable Free Agent. The drummer was quickly flowed out to the pacific northwest for an audition, and it didn’t take long before Grohl was officiously in the fold, unknowingly on his way to a place at the table of rock and roll history.
But he’d initially have to play his first Live Show with Nirvana Before getting to that level of notority. TAKING PLACE ON OCTOBER 11TH, 1990, at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, WashingtonWithout MUCH TIME to Rehearse in Advance (and plenty of songs to Learn), How Wauld Grohl Hold up on his first nirvana?
It wasn’t perfect, but it was a good start for Grohl
Nirvana Wold Play 20 Songs That Night, CONSISING OF A MIXTURE OF COUNTERS, FROM TRACKS Bleachneither well as still-unreeed selections from the upcoming Disgust album. Grohl Reportedly put in a solid debut performance, AFTER AFT MULTIPLE SONGS WERE STOPPED HALFWAY DUE TO REPEATED POWER OUTages.
Despite this, the grunge-rock trio would Still Rattle Through theyir Setlist SuccessFully, and Dave Grohl would go on to become an iconic piece of the ultimate Nirvana legacy. IT May SEEM SMALL 35 Years late, But TODAY IS WHEN ANOTHER Vital Piece of Rock and Roll History was forged in the Fires of Opportunity.
