Yahoo News Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl still can't listen to Nirvana
Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide, which some readers may find upsetting.
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl still struggles to listen to the groundbreaking music that he made with grunge icons Nirvana because of the grief of losing bandmate Kurt Cobain.
Cobain died from suicide in 1994, forever altering the course of popular music. Since that time, Dave Grohl has forged ahead as the frontman of alternative rock gods Foo Fighters, but he says he remains haunted by Cobain's tragic passing.
In a new interview with GQ, the former Nirvana drummer remembers how difficult it was to listen to any musical at all in the aftermath of losing Cobain.
"For years I couldn't even listen to any music, let alone a Nirvana song," he said. "When Kurt died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart.
"I don't put Nirvana records on, no. 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."
He added: "I remember everything about those records; I remember the shorts I was wearing when we recorded them or that it snowed that day. Still, I go back and find new meanings to Kurt's lyrics.
"Not to seem revisionist, but there are times when it hits me. You go, 'Wow, I didn't realise he was feeling that way at the time'."
Despite his reluctance to listen to Nirvana's work, Grohl was quick to point out how important the band has been to his evolution as musician.
"Nirvana, for me, was a personal revolution, I was 21," he remembered. "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."
Grohl most recently reunited with former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic as part of a super-group with former Beatle Paul McCartney to release the track 'Cut Me Some Slack' a few years back.
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