Dave Grohl performs with Foo Fighters (Photo: Live4ever Media)
Dave Grohl has urged fans to listen to Nirvana‘s final studio effort ‘In Utero‘ ‘without thinking of Kurt dying’ after the album’s expansive re-release.
The dark, cathartic feel of the record was given an added significance when Kurt Cobain committed suicide less than a year after its release in 1993, but Grohl has told Rolling Stone he doesn’t think those tragic events should overshadow what is arguably the band’s finest LP.
“To me, if you listen to it without thinking of Kurt dying, you might get the original intention of the record,” he said. “Like my kids. They know I was in Nirvana. They know Kurt was killed. I haven’t told them that he killed himself. They’re four and seven years old.”
“So when they listen to ‘In Utero’, they’ll have that fresh perspective – the original intention of the album, as a first-time listener. Someday they will learn what happened. And it’ll change that. It did for me.”