
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
We must adjust to changing times...
...execute the office of President
of the United States...
I challenge a new generation
of young Americans...
My biggest fantasy when I was a kid
was that I would go to see
my favorite band play,
and someone would come out and say,
"Sorry, the band can't play tonight,
their drummer broke his fuckin' leg.
"Unless there's someone
that knows all the songs... "
Then, of course, I would jump up
and be the greatest drummer in the world.
I fantasized about that.
With Nirvana, the process
of making the music
was so entirely simple and pure and real.
Kurt was a great lyricist,
he had a beautiful voice,
and he wrote really simple songs.
There were things I learned about songwriting
from being in a band with Kurt
that I don't think anyone else
could have taught me.
That record, Nevermind, came out
almost a year to the day
after I had joined the band.
This song is called Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Before Dave had joined the band,
there was a message on my
answering machine from Kurt, saying,
"Butch! We have the best drummer in the
world! He's the greatest drummer in the world.
"I'm not kidding you. He's awesome, dude!"
And he hung up.
About a week later we were in LA
and I walked into a rehearsal space with him.
And Dave walked up - skinny, long hair...
"Hey, man, I'm Dave. Nice to meet you. "
He was just full of energy.
I was like, "Let's play.
Play me some songs, you guys. "
And they played Teen Spirit.
Dave did the...
...and it just floored me.
Of course, everybody was telling the band
that they thought we were great,
but I don't think the three of us ever believed
a word of anything anyone was telling us.
We never thought we were gonna sell
a million records.
None of us had any idea that it was gonna
completely change my life and their lives.
But I knew that they sounded really tight
and pretty focused,
and that they had written
some amazingly powerful songs.
We knew something was happening
because the atmosphere of the gigs
just changed.
They went from being cool, hipster,
underground people in a club
to, like...
jocks were coming to the show.
That was the first thing, like,
"Oh my God, there's jocks here,"
you know?
"That's kind of strange.
They like our music?
"You used to kick my fucking ass
for listening to this music. "
I was a really big fan of Nirvana,
like everybody else,
and I happened to be reading
an interview with Kurt
where he had mentioned,
Nirvana was always meant to be a four-piece,
a two-guitar band.
It was never meant to be a three-piece.
I thought, "Oh, well that's my in. "
Pat is from this legendary punk rock band
called the Germs
that we all grew up listening to.
There was no one more badass
than the Germs.
Germs didn't give a f*ck.
So Pat shows up in Seattle,
and all of us were just like,
"Oh my God, hey, it's Pat Smear
from the Germs.
"He's alive?"
So now Nirvana is hitting the big halls,
with guitarist Pat Smear
helping to make the loud louder.
The day before the first rehearsal
I saw my picture on MTV News, saying,
"Nirvana has a new guitar player, Pat Smear. "
I was like, "My God, it's real! There it is!"
I don't think Kurt wanted to be
a huge fuckin' rock star.
And I don't think he could handle
how complicated it had all become.
No one was very happy with the tour,
or the band.
So Kurt decided he wants a break,
even though we're on this tour
you can't get out of,
because you're a big band
and you get sued.
We had, like, a week and a half off
in between two legs of the tour.
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