Nirvana will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight. In anticipation, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. While they didn't perform on the episode, they sat down with Fallon to reminisce about their time playing in Nirvana.
Fallon asked Novoselic what Kurt Cobain was like in high school. "He was this weird kid, and I was a weird kid," he responded. "We thought the world was weird, so we gravitated toward each other. We both loved punk rock music, and everybody else hated punk rock music."
Fallon then asked Novoselic to describe the moment that they knew Nirvana had made it. "The whole thing was insane with Nirvana," he told Fallon. "In 1991 the band came out, and Geffen Records printed 50,000 copies of our record, which is like indie gold. Then it went multiplatinum. There was a time when you couldn't even buy Nevermind at the record store."
Grohl added, "That first tour that we did we were booked into these places — some of them held 90 people, some of them held 150 people — and because the album had come out and the video was on MTV and stuff, we'd pull up and there would be so many people trying to get to the show. Even when we had a gold record, we were still in a van with a U-Haul trailer. It all happened really quickly. It was really weird."
They also talked about Nirvana's SNL performance, Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" parody, playing with Paul McCartney and smashing their instruments on stage.
Watch the full interview below, and let us know what you think in the comments section!
