Did Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl get along?

Dave Grohl opened up about his relationship with Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain in a recent interview with Vulture. Despite their close bond, the Foo Fighters
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frontman revealed that Cobain once considered replacing him with a different drummer in the legendary punk-rock
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Did Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain like each other?

Grohl said he mostly connected with Cobain through music

musically, it was a match made in heaven. But personally, it was a bit off, to be honest. Of course we loved each other. We were friends.
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How long did Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain know each other?

Nirvana has gone on to sell over 75 million records, but Cobain's tragic death in 1994 deeply affected Grohl. "I think about him all the time," he says. "I just had a dream about him two nights ago. I only knew Kurt for about three and a half years, but in that time we went through multiple lifetimes.
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What Foo Fighters song is about Kurt Cobain?

"Friend of a Friend" was the first acoustic song Dave Grohl had ever written. The song was written by Grohl in 1990 (and recorded in secret the same year), and it was about his first impressions of new Nirvana bandmates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.
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Who was Dave Grohl's best friend?

Dave Grohl 's beautiful words about Taylor Hawkins have resurfaced after the drummer's sudden death at age 50. The Foo Fighters frontman never had anything but wonderful things to say about his bandmate, who he described as his "best friend" and his "spirit animal".
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The Truth About Dave Grohl's Relationship With Kurt Cobain



Are Dave Grohl and Jack Black friends?

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Jack Blackl and Kyle Gass are old mates of Dave Grohl - here they are bringing the LOLZ backstage at a Foo Fighters gig in October 2000.
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Is paul McCartney friends with Dave Grohl?

NEW YORK (AP) — It's hard to think of a current musician so universally accepted into the rock 'n' roll fraternity as Dave Grohl. The Foo Fighters frontman dines regularly with Paul McCartney. He wrote and recorded a pandemic-era song with Mick Jagger. Joan Jett read bedtime stories to his daughters.
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Has Dave Grohl written any songs about Kurt?

Dave Grohl wrote a Foo Fighters song about Kurt Cobain's death. For a recent Rolling Stone cover story, Grohl revealed which Foo Fighters song was written in response to Cobain's death. It's the band's 2011 song “Walk.” “It kind of comes from the day after Kurt died,” Grohl explained.
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Did Dave Grohl write any Nirvana songs?

In an interview on CBS show Sunday Morning, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has revealed why he never wrote music or sang in Nirvana, and only started writing his own material after Kurt Cobain's death in 1994.
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What is the most played Nirvana song?

The top 20 most-played Nirvana songs
  • ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1991)
  • ' Come As You Are' (1991)
  • ' Lithium' (1991)
  • ' Heart-Shaped Box' (1993)
  • ' In Bloom' (1991)
  • ' The Man Who Sold The World' (1993)
  • ' All Apologies' (1993)
  • ' About A Girl' (1989)
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Did Kurt Cobain want to kick out Dave Grohl?

Dave Grohl Says He Overheard Kurt Cobain Talking About Kicking Him Out Of Nirvana. Well, Nevermind. Dave Grohl told Vulture in an interview published Tuesday that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain considered replacing him as the band's drummer.
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Are Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic still friends?

“We like to see each other and if there are instruments around or a studio that's available, we'll just get together and kind of jam, you know?” Dave Grohl has said that the surviving members of Nirvana – Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear – still jam together from time to time, even recording some material along the way.
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Who owns the rights to Nirvana?

When Nirvana singer and lead songwriter Kurt Cobain died in 1994, his widow, rocker Courtney Love, became the primary beneficiary of his estate, which includes more than ninety-eight percent of the band's publishing rights. Band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were left with part of the remainder.
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Why did Nirvana stop making music?

Nirvana disbanded following Cobain's suicide in April 1994. Various posthumous releases have been overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love.
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Is Everlong about Kurt?

The passionate love Dave Grohl sings about in this song reflects his feelings for his first wife Jennifer when they were at the beginning of their relationship. They were dating for about two years when she moved to Seattle to be closer to Dave (this was in 1994, not long after Kurt Cobain's suicide).
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How many Foo Fighter songs are about Kurt Cobain?

After Cobain's death, Grohl would go on to form his own group, something Cobain had always encouraged him to do, and write a ream of rock classics—but Grohl has only ever written one song about his friend Kurt.
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Why is Everlong such a good song?

It's hard to talk about "Everlong" without sounding tremendously saccharine. Like the best pop songs, its music so thoroughly conveys the feeling behind its lyrics' sentiments. It's a four-minute, speaker-blowing work of emotional flight, a soaring anthem to love as a moment of crowdsurfing bliss and harmony.
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How rich is Dave Grohl?

What is Dave Grohl's net worth? Dave Grohl is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and director who has a net worth of $320 million dollars. He is best known as the front man and guitarist of the Foo Fighters and as the former drummer of Nirvana.
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Who are Paul Mccartneys friends?

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have had a longstanding friendship and a professional partnership that has spanned the better part of 62 years. They met when both were struggling musicians. Paul was a member of The Silver Beatles with John Lennon, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe, and Pete Best.
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How popular is Dave Grohl?

Grohl is one of the most famous and popular musicians of all-time, which makes this even more impressive. It also meant that he was recognized by other fans who gave him high-fives and enjoyed watching the show rubbing shoulders with the rock legend.
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Who are Dave Grohl's closest friends?

Every person on this list has either been seen in public with Dave Grohl, or is known to be acquaintances or best friends with Dave Grohl.
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Famous Friends of Dave Grohl
  • Kurt Cobain. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY. ...
  • Paul McCartney. ...
  • Bruce Springsteen. ...
  • Krist Novoselic. ...
  • Courtney Love. ...
  • Pat Smear. ...
  • Taylor Hawkins. ...
  • Joshua Homme.
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Who is Dave Grohl friends with?

Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl played together in Foo Fighters for 25 years, but their friendship also flourished outside the studio. When the duo first met in the mid-1990s, Grohl was already world famous as the drummer for Nirvana.
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Was The Pick of Destiny a failure?

After its box office failure, Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny was swimming in red ink. New Line first dated the picture for November 17, 2006 and then three weeks before it was set to open, they pushed it back one frame as a Thanksgiving holiday release.
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Who owns Kurt Cobain's image?

Kurt Cobain's image rights now owned by daughter Frances Bean, not Courtney Love | EW.com.
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