11 Times the Surviving Members of Nirvana Reunited
Despite Nirvana’s disbanding in 1994 following frontman Kurt Cobain’s death, it still smells like teen spirit in 2020. Drummer Dave Grohl reunited with his fellow surviving members — founding…
Despite Nirvana‘s disbanding in 1994 following frontman Kurt Cobain‘s death, it still smells like teen spirit in 2020. Drummer Dave Grohl reunited with his fellow surviving members — founding bassist Krist Novoselic and touring guitarist Pat Smear — on Saturday at the Art of Elysium’s 13th annual “Heaven Is Rock & Roll” gala.
“We said we weren’t going to do this for another four or five years, but we couldn’t resist the temptation,” Novoselic told the benefit’s attendees, as the trio was joined onstage by guest vocalists St. Vincent‘s Annie Clark, Beck and Grohl’s 13-year-old daughter Violet.
The influential rockers have reassembled on different stages over the years, from New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2012 to the Hollywood Palladium this past weekend, and Billboard has recounted them below.
Check out all the times Nirvana’s surviving members got the band back together.
Grohl and Smear reunite with Novoselic and Nevermind producer Butch Vig for Foo Fighters‘ 2011 album Wasting Light.
The first recorded time Nirvana’s living bandmates reunited was not onstage, but in a recording studio in 2010. Foo Fighters frontman Grohl and guitarist Smear brought Novoselic onto their seventh studio album, Wasting Light, as a guest bassist. The album, which topped the Billboard 200 in April 2011, was also produced by longtime Nirvana collaborator Vig, who produced the grunge rockers’ second studio album, Nevermind. At the time, Grohl said he hadn’t worked with Vig in 20 years and the album was “going to be our heaviest record yet,” according to his interview with Zane Lowe for BBC Radio 1.
When the Beatles legend performed at Madison Square Garden for 12-12-12: Concert for Sandy Relief, he brought out three special guest performers — Grohl, Novoselic and Smear — to debut their new collaborative track “Cut Me Some Slack.” McCartney explained how the song came together to the crowd: “Recently some guys asked me to go jam with them. So I showed up like you do, you know, ready to jam. And in the middle of it, these guys keep going, ‘We haven’t played together for years.’ So, you know, the penny finally dropped — I finally understood I was in the middle of a Nirvana reunion.”
McCartney and Nirvana’s surviving members take the Saturday Night Live stage in 2012.
The legendary foursome switched NYC venues from Madison Square Garden to Studio 8H for an SNL rendition of “Cut Me Some Slack” when McCartney was the show’s musical guest that evening.
McCartney performs “Cut Me Some Slack” with Grohl, Novoselic and Smear for the Seattle stop of his Out There Tour in 2013.
Cut them some slack! Third time’s the charm for McCartney, Grohl, Novoselic and Smear to perform their joint jam live. When the Beatles vet performed in the grunge band’s hometown of Seattle in 2013 for his Out There Tour, he brought his famed collaborators out at Safeco Field for an encore. The following year, “Cut Me Some Slack” went on to win best rock song at the Grammys.
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