![]() ![]() They eventually found Dave Grohl who was in need of a band after his hardcore punk act Scream disbanded. In 1990 Channing and Nirvana split ways, leaving the band without a regular drummer. In 1993, Cobain also famously told Spin magazine that on the record he “didn’t give a flying f*** what the lyrics were about,” and wrote the large majority of them not long before recording, sometimes immediately beforehand. The music on Bleach therefore was stripped of its more artful aspects to appease the fanbase and label. There was a fatal flaw though: the Sub Pop record label strongly preferred their acts to play grunge music, and Cobain felt creatively at the whim of the label to adhere to that aesthetic with his material for the band. Nirvana’s lineup had several drummers come and go at the onset, with Chad Channing eventually playing on their debut record Bleach (though a few tracks featured Melvins drummer Dale Crover, as he had played with Cobain on Fecal Matter songs that were re-recorded for Bleach). They had cycled through various names (Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred) but fortunately, eventually became Nirvana. He had hoped to eventually play with bassist Krist Novoselic, who later heard Cobain’s tape that was going around and requested to start a band. The project never went anywhere, but Cobain continued to circulate copies of the demo to friends and peers to attract attention around his music. In 1985, shortly after Kurt Cobain dropped out of Aberdeen High School, he started a “joke band” called Fecal Matter that was comprised of a circle of friends that included members of the band Melvins. BeginningsĪt its onset, the band didn’t go by the name Nirvana – nor were they made up of the same classic lineup. Their music still enjoys plenty of airplay and circulation and is a testament to the band’s influence and raw power. In 2014, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. They have sold over 25 million albums in the US alone, with an additional 75 million albums sold worldwide and have been considered a defining band of Generation X. Nirvana is a household name even today due to their meteoric rise to stardom and the accompanying flurry of MTV coverage and mass radio appeal they garnered. Nirvana: the release from the karmic rebirth cycle that binds humanity to suffering…er…excuse me…this is an article about the famous grunge rock band of the ’90s. ![]()
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