Dave Grohl with Foo Fighters (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic approached PJ Harvey to join them onstage at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony last week, but found the two-time Mercury Prize winner unavailable on the night.
“Kurt loved PJ Harvey,” Grohl revealed to Rolling Stone. “We had always imagined playing our song ‘Milk It’ from In Utero with her. It’s a twisted song, almost like something that could have been on her record ‘Rid of Me’, which was also produced by Steve Albini. It just seemed to pair up so well.”
In the end, Grohl, Novoselic and Pat Smear celebrated the music of Nirvana with guests Lorde, St. Vincent, Kim Gordon and Joan Jett as their former band was formally inducted into the Hall Of Fame at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
“That was a matter of finding people that we respected and that shared the Nirvana aesthetic,” Grohl continued on approaching musicians for the live performances. “Some of them were nervous. I think some of them were maybe apprehensive because of how heavy the whole thing is.”