Death of a friend the best thing that ever happend?

[DocTurtle]

The wife and I were sitting in the car on the way to work this morning and we heard a deep grungy voice straining through the speakers. We looked at each other and asked, "Do you think him dying was the best thing for his carrer?" I looked up the stats, and since the start of his band, which came 6 months after the tragedy, they have received 6 Grammy's, had donzens of nominations, and will go down as one of the great bands in history.

The old band he was in was Nirvana. Know who I'm referring to now? The friend that died was Kurt Cobain. Know now? Well, if you don't know who I'm talking about by now, you need a little history lesson is music. The man I'm referring to is the ex-drummer of Nirvana, better known now as the front man of the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl. *ooooooooohhh, you mean HIM*

The abrupt and violent of Nirvana was probably one of the greatest things that could of happend to him, IMO.

A little exert from wiki:David Grohl spent three-and-a-half years as the drummer for Nirvana. Unknown to most of Nirvana's fanbase, Grohl gradually wrote a stockpile of songs that he largely held back from the band for fear of ruining their chemistry. (Grohl has noted in several interviews that he was well aware of the infamous drummer joke: "Q: What did the drummer say just before he got fired? A: Hey, guys, let's try one of my songs!") Instead, Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos, and even issued a cassette of some of those songs called Pocketwatch under the pseudonym "Late!" in 1992.

Could he have amounted to what he is now if Nirvana didn't come to an end the way it did? How long would he had stayed in the background behind headliner Kurt? Who knows?

What's your opinion?

[kombu_kid]

I'd say I'm with ya on that, Doc. I really do like a handful of Foo Fighters' songs, although maybe they're not THAT great, I mean as a group. I've got to sometimes roll my eyes when the public treats deceased actors or rock stars as some kind of gods or visionaries. I'm not even sure I'd go to see the Foo Fighters. But you know what? I remember being pretty impressed with the Foo Fighters when they first came out, right after Kobain's death. I was expecting some really mediocre material from them........I mean, Nirvana's drummer's new band?......(first thing you'd imagine is that they're capitalizing on Kobain's death, and that they probably suck).

Curt Kobain sure was a leader in the grunge movement, though. I can still see that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video in my head if I think about it, with that weird smokey view of the band playing & Kobain's hair hangin' in his face.

[DocTurtle]

It was a great video indeed.

[proudtobnotpc]

IMO they were both equally great musicians. Just sometimes you have thinkers and doers. Kurt was a doer with big brass balls

[OkinawaStud]

I was jamming out to lounge Act yesterday at the gym. I still remember where I was when I first heard Smells Like. Damn, long time ago.