Dave Grohl Reveals If He Wanted To Join Pearl Jam

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Dave Grohl told Howard Stern in a new interview that he was never offered the job as Pearl Jam’s drummer, though Tom Petty did make him an offer.

“Petty, yes. Pearl Jam, no,” Grohl told Howard Stern. “I don’t know where the Pearl Jam thing came from. They never called and asked me to play drums with them.”

Grohl drummed for Petty on an episode of Saturday Night Live in late 1994.

“We had so much fun and we all got along so well,” Grohl remembered. “Afterwards he was like, ‘Man, that was good. It would be a shame if that’s the only time we do it’ sort of thing. And then he called me at home and he was like, ‘Look, here’s how we do it: You get your own bus and we don’t tour too hard … If you’re into it, come out and let’s do it for a little while.’”

Grohl said he had just started Foo Fighters and thought it would be “weird” to be a drummer in a band again.

“It would have just reminded me of being in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally. It would have been an emotional thing to be behind the drum set every night and not have Kurt there.

“So I was like, ‘Nah, f**k it. I’m gonna try this other thing.’”

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Brett Buchanan
Brett previously hosted the BWR wrestling and MMA podcast, interviewing pro wrestling and MMA stars like Kurt Angle, Seth Rollins, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Bruce Buffer, AJ Styles, Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, Edge, and DDP. After ending BWR, Brett opened GrungeReport.net in May 2009. The site changed its name to AlternativeNation.net in June 2013.  Brett ran Scott Weiland's social media accounts for his final 'Master Blaster' tour in fall 2015 and continued to run the accounts after Weiland's death until July 2016. On Alternative Nation, Brett controls all aspects of the website and reports the day to day news.  He has interviewed members of Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Imagine Dragons, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, and The Smiths. Brett has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and on the Reelz Channel. You can reach Brett at contact @alternativenation.net