Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl revealed how Nirvana took money from Jason Everman and then fired him in a great new Yahoo piece. Grohl recently was featured in a surprising Imagine Dragons photo.
DAVE GROHL: [Kurt and Krist] told me about their second guitarist Jason Everman, who was in the band for a short period around the Bleach album. He actually paid for [the recording of] Bleach, then they kicked him out. F—ers! He was really into King Diamond, and they would make so much fun of him for it, and he would always say, “Don’t diss the King, man!”
JACK ENDINO: (Skin Yard, producer): Dale Crover did exactly one recording session and one live show with Nirvana, both taking place on Jan. 23, 1988: the session in Seattle in the afternoon, the show in Tacoma in the evening. [By the time we worked on Bleach], a year had passed and two of the songs were no longer being played by the band, so they opted to just use the Dale takes [on the album].
The third one, “Floyd the Barber,” we tried to record with Chad [Channing], but everyone decided that the original version with Dale was just a better take. Chad’s a good drummer, but Dale, even then, was world-class. Chad knew that and had no problem with it. The total recording and mixing time for Bleach was in the neighborhood of 30 hours. It doesn’t get any more together than that.
Select quotes used with permission from following: Jeff Gilbert, Jennifer Clay, Guitar World. Also thanks to musicliferadio.com. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal was recently released in paperback on HarperCollins and is available wherever fine and filthy books are sold.
Foo Fighters are back on tour in Europe, and on Wednesday they invited yet another fan onstage to perform with them. Richard stepped in for Taylor Hawkins on drums for a performance of the 2009 hit “Wheels” that appeared on the band’s greatest hits album. Dave Grohl introduced Richard near the end of the concert, and great video by Harri Koponen has been uploaded.
Grohl said, “Get that kid up here now. I hope he knows how to play the drums. He’s going to have to play drums on this nice little song. Let me see, come on motherf*cker, play the drums.”
Foo Fighters Manchester Setlist:
Everlong
Monkey Wrench
Learn to Fly
The Pretender
The Sky Is A Neighborhood
Rope
Drum Solo
Sunday Rain
My Hero
La Dee Da
These Days
Guitar Solo / Under My Wheels
You’re the One That I Want / Another One Bites the Dust
Imagine / Jump
Blitzkrieg Bop
Under Pressure
All My Life
Times Like These
Walk
For All the Cows
Breakout
Wheels
Run
This is a Call
Best of You
