Interesting new story from NME:

 

"Dave Grohl has defended his and bassist Krist Novoselic's contribution to Nirvana against continual claims they were merely Kurt Cobain's backing band.

 

Now frontman with Foo Fighters, Grohl insists that all of them had a big impact on how Nirvana sounded.

 

'I was actually Nirvana's fifth drummer and if you listen to the recordings with the previous guys you will notice it sounds different,' he told the Daily Mirror. 'Krist Novoselic and I have been called sidemen to Kurt for f***ing years - that lawsuit is done with, y'know?

 

'We've been called hired guns and I just laugh. Anyone who has ever been in a band, hell... anyone who has ever even listened to a band, understands what happens when one of those elements is removed from the combination. It just falls apart.'

 

However, Grohl insisted that despite the band being serious about their efforts, Cobain, Novoselic and himself never expected the impact the group caused.

 

'We were just three guys trying to make our way playing music. I think the effect the band had was more to do with everyone else than the band,' he suggested. 'When we went to rehearsals in Tacoma, Washington, to write music, there wasn't a whole lot of world domination in mind. We'd begin with an impromptu freeform noise jam and a lot of songs came out of that - from Smells Like Teen Spirit to Come As You Are. All those dynamic quiet/loud songs came out of those jams.'"

 

Read the full piece here Link

 

they wernt as important as Kurt but they shouldnt be known just as kurts backing band

While I dont really buy that Grohl was as important to Nirvana as Kurt was (seeing as how Kurt kinda wrote all the music and all....), I would say that he was more integral than many would suggest, he was certainly not the "grunge Ringo" as some people would suggest... There was a marked difference in Nirvana's sound from when Chad Channing was the drummer on "Bleach" to when Grohl was drummer on "Nevermind" and "In Utero", it cant all be put down to the differences in production values, Grohl definitely had an impact on Nirvana's sound... Novoselic, I woud say considerably less so, his bass playing was, at best, competent, but really it could've been just about anyone playing bass, he aint exactly Flea or Kim Gordon......

Dave Grohl weren't as important as Kurt but pretty close. But why he forgot a really important person, the producer (I mean Butch Vig on "Nevermind")?

 

Anyway I think Dave is one of the best drummers ever...