Nirvana brought out St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett, and Violet Grohl during a surprise reunion set at FireAid.
weren’t part of the official FireAid bill, but they took the stage near the end of the Kia Forum show to tear through “Breed” withDave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear dissolved Nirvana after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, but they came back together in 2012 to record “Cut Me Some Slack” with Paul McCartney. Two years later, when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they performed with St Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett, and Lorde.
Nearly every time they’ve played since Cobain’s death, a female singer was brought in to sing his words. The idea came to them early in their rehearsals for the Hall of Fame in 2014. “We thought, ‘Wait, it has to be all women,’”“‘Don’t even ask anyone else. If we can fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance with these incredible women singing Nirvana songs, then we’ll have achieved our own revolution.’ It also added a whole other dimension to the show.
The initial rehearsals were incredibly emotional. “The first time we played together, it was like seeing a ghost,” Grohl said. “The second time, it was a little more reserved. And the last time we played it was like that fucking Demi Moore/Patrick Swayze pottery wheel scene from. We usually got the song by the third take. It started to sound like Nirvana. Our road crew and some friends were in the room when we launched into ‘Scentless Apprentice’ for the first time. There were jaws on the floor.
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