![]() RELATED: Dave Grohl and His Childhood Sweetheart Chose The Beatles’ ‘Eight Days a Week’ as Their Song Hawkins loved Nirvana and was intimidated when he met Grohl But the guy just couldn’t help but write perfectly beautiful, amazing melodies, haunting lyrics and the band was pretty good too!” “And then, their answer to that was to make an even less pristine and even more guttural thing. “Like literally, I remember where I was and the colour of the light outside changed…I don’t know if they knew what they were doing when they made ‘Nevermind’ but they made a perfect, pristine and yet still reckless and amazing record. “We sat there and waited on MTV, like you used to do back in the day and watch videos…here it is! I was just like ‘F***!’ It was literally that same moment that all those kids in America had when The Beatles played on Ed Sullivan,” Hawkins said. In an interview on Matt Wilkinson’s Beats 1 Radio show (per NME), Hawkins compared watching Nirvana’s music video for “ Smells Like Teen Spirit” to watching The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. ![]() ![]() RELATED: Taylor Hawkins Didn’t Interfere With Dave Grohl’s Process After Almost Quitting Foo Fighters The drummer said watching Nirvana’s video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was like watching The Beatles play on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’
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