Surviving Nirvana members playing with Paul McCartney
This sounds so weird… Sites saying ‘Paul McCartney will front a Nirvana reunion tonight — replacing late singer Kurt Cobain.’
They have been rehearsing for some time and are going to play a new song tonight at the Hurricane Sandy charity concert in New York.
Apparently Paul McCartney said he rang Dave Grohl, who asked him to come along to “jam with some mates”.
Paul McCartney had suggested they “just make something up” and found himself playing with Grohl on drums, bassist Krist and guitarplayer Pat Smear (who used to be in the Germs and ended up playing in Nirvana on later tours).
He had the following to say:
I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?’ And somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it.
Could be interesting…
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good news!
I don’t know. Totally depends on what they’re going to do, if they’re going to rape a Nirvana song I’m not too sure. If they’re just rocking out playing a new tune (seems like it) I’m curious to hear how it sounds.
I hardly think they’re gonna do a Nirvana song, since Paul doesn’t even seem to know Nirvana 😉
He knows the band, maybe just not the guys in it. Aside from that Krist Novoselic looks nothing like Krist Novoselic back in those days and Pat Smear only joined them on later tours. So I could understand him not recognizing the band. Not that it matters much 😉
This is probably just a way to plug the Sound City documentary. Guess who the special guest is from this article? https://somewillneverknow.org/news/nirvanas-krist-novoselic-and-dave-grohl-recording-with-butch-vig/ 😉
It would be pretty cool to hear Paul McCartney sing ‘About a Girl’. I think that actually could work.
I don’t want to hear McCartney sing a Nirvana song at all, but “About A Girl” would be a good choice, it being heavily influenced by the Beatles.
Krist Novoselic tweeted the following:
‘It is a new song that’s kind of Helter Skelter meets Scentless Apprentice. It rocks with a heavy groove. St. Paul is powerful.’
Interesting.
I’m curious too
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Checked it out this morning. Sounds like Helter Skelter indeed. Also reminds me of “American Woman” (and I’m not into Kravitz at all). Bit sloppy. But all in all better than I expected 🙂
You DO know American Woman is not originally a Lenny Krevitz song, right? 😉
(I had that association as well)
I did NOT. I “guess” (pun intended) I need to check out the original 🙂
Nothing do to with Nirvana musicwise (i think) but still a cool rocking song. I could listen to an album of this.
The thing is, what’s a Nirvana song musicwise? If you have a look at their catalogue it’s all over the place (in a good way). To me that is, maybe for the general public it all sounds the same 🙂
Anyway, McCartney pulled it off way better than I expected, but then again, he wrote Helter Skelter right? 🙂
I don’t remember Nirvana ever having this heavy bluesy undertone, but than again, I’m hardly a connaisseur. 🙂
Not really Nirvana (and it’s a cover), but Kurt & Krist with Mark Lanegan for his solo album:
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But you’re right, not that clear. Krist Novoselic described it as a mix between Helter Skelter and:
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Here’s a couple of seconds of the studio version of the song:
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I hate those short clips.
Full studio version can be heard here:
http://loudwire.com/nirvana-members-paul-mccartney-studio-version-cut-me-some-slack/