Creator Robert Boyd sale Dan Peters from Mudhoney was going to be Nirvana’s official new drummer after Chad Channing, however Dave Grohl took the gig.
He advised Booked on Rock, “There have been total seven drummers, together with Dave Grohl. They went via a sequence of drummers up till the recording of ‘Bleach,’ together with Dan Peters of Mudhoney. Kurt Cobain… Largely Kurt Cobain — he had turn into uninterested in Chad Channing. He wished a more durable drummer, somebody who hit more durable. They have been nice buddies and, from what I perceive, remained nice buddies, Chris and Kurt with Chad Channing, all through the rest of the band. However they only wished a drummer that hit laborious.”
“So, within the spring of 1990, Chad was requested to depart the band,” Boyd continued. “And it was at a pivotal time, as a result of they’d some main label curiosity, ‘Bleach’ was promoting effectively, they’d simply completed a European tour and the North American tour. So, Chad left the band, they usually had few choices. So, each Dale Crover and Dan Peters stepped in to assist out. And Dan Peters of Mudhoney, despite the fact that Mudhoney was on hiatus on the time, assumed that he was gonna get the position. He was gonna be Nirvana’s new full-time drummer.”
“However utterly coincidentally, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic attended a Scream present in California. Dave Grohl was the drummer of Scream, a punk band out of Washington, DC. And shortly after that exact present, Scream disbanded. So, Dave Grohl, needing a brand new place, was pointed within the path of Nirvana. And the remaining is historical past.”