Dave Grohl was blown away by how ”nice” Post Malone’s live-streamed Nirvana tribute was.
The grunge legends’ former drummer felt ”honoured” when Blink-182’s Travis Barker performed the drums through the fundraiser – which raised over $500,000 for the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organisation – and he additionally hailed the ‘Circles’ hitmaker’s spectacular efficiency.
Speaking on ALT 98.7FM, the Foo Fighters frontman stated of the live-stream, which noticed them carry out the likes of ‘Come As You Are’, ‘About a Girl’ and ‘Heart-Shaped Box’: ”It was so bizarre, as a result of I used to be writing.
”I began this Instagram web page known as ‘Dave’s True Stories’.
”First of all, watching Travis play the drums to these Nirvana songs, I used to be honoured. I assumed that was tremendous cool.
”They have been killing it. So I watched a bunch of it. I used to be, like, ‘that was actually cool.’
”I do not get to see different folks do Nirvana songs typically, and he appeared completely comfy with it, and it sounded nice.
”Even the die-hard Nirvana those that I do know have been, like, ‘dude, he is sort of killing it proper now.”’
Post had gotten the seal of approval of the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ band’s late frontman Kurt Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, previous to the set.
She wrote on Instagram alongside a information article for the live-stream: ”Thank you @postmalone @who ( worldhealthorganization) & @googlewho will match 5 million $ in donations . Thank you beloved @coreresponseand the wonderful @nhs ( profound to observe this wonderful well being care system working = inspiring ) thanks mighty kc for writing these songs along with your elegant and monkeyed fingers that the children nonetheless need to sing and play and listen to and use to combat and hunt and remedy and heal and eradicate this f***ing covid19 virus. I approve the utilization . Good luck mr malone. (sic)”
The ‘Rockstar’ hitmaker is a significant Nirvana fan and even has tattoos impressed by the ‘Come As You Are’ rockers, together with his Stay Away face ink impressed by their music of the identical identify, while he has Kurt – who handed away on the age of 27 in April 1994 – tattooed on his knuckle.
