Foo Fighter Dave Grohl has spoken out about his relationship with Kurt Cobain, pretty much ending years of silence on the subject of the late Nirvana frontman. Grohl revealed to Rolling Stone that he and Cobain were not that close, saying "When I joined Nirvana I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music."
On Cobain's relationship with Krist Novoselic, Grohl went on: "[he] and Kurt had a legendary lifetime connection. Those guys were soul mates. They'd been through so much together, from Aberdeen to the success of 'Nevermind'. They fuckin' shared everything, and they were the kind of friends that didn't have to talk to each other - they just knew. I never really shared that moment with them because I came from such a different place, and within eight months to a year of being in Nirvana, the band blew up into something that no one had expected. It was hard to connect with anybody when that happened."
Grohl continued: "I don't think I've ever told anyone this, but there were times when Kurt was really unhappy with the way I played drums. I could hear him talking about how much he thought I sucked. But he'd never say it to me."