Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has revealed that he never listens to Nirvana by choice.
"When Kurt [Cobain] died, every time the radio came on, it broke my heart," Grohl told GQ UK. "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."
He said it felt like part of his love of music was lost with Cobain, and it was years before he felt like listening to music at all.
Grohl, who joined Nirvana as a drummer shortly before the band's ground-shaking Nevermind album, said that nearly 25 years after it all fell apart with the death of Cobain, he still can't enjoy the band's music.
"Nirvana, for me, was a personal revolution, I was 21," Grohl said. "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. Those experiences became a footing or a foundation on how to survive."
He, along with bassist Krist Novoselic, helped Cobain build the band first into an underground success, then an international phenomenon.
"I remember everything about those records; I remember the shorts I was wearing when we recorded them or that it snowed that day," he added. "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 realize he was feeling that way at the time.’”
Original article by Andrew Magnotta at iHeartRadio