So: 1) Never owned any Nirvana. Didn't care for them. Owned plenty of Soundgarden, plenty of Alice in Chains. Didn't really think Nirvana was the best band to come out of Seattle by a long shot. 2) Never owned any Foo Fighters. Never so much as listened to 'em. Not my kind of music. Not a fan of the Foo Fighters. BIG fan of Dave Grohl. Why? Because there's a raw enthusiasm and a drive to share in the man that's just charming. Sonic Highways is awesome to watch. Yeah - the dude is making a Foo Fighters album. And yeah - the part at the end where they play the song that the show is ostensibly about? Definitely the worst part of the show. But if I, a person who doesn't give the first fuck about Foo Fighters, sits down to enjoy multiple hours of television focused on making a Foo Fighters record then maybe the dude is doing something right. And hey. You wanna hear Come as you Are back in 1984? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighties_(song)#Nirvana Killing Joke dropped the suit and any mention of it when Kurt Cobain died. Know what Dave Grohl did? Never seen Foo Fighters. Never listened to Foo Fighters. Probably never will. Never liked Nirvana, never will. But fuckin' lay off Dave Grohl. Not only is he not being an asshole about it, he's legitimately giving back. I mean, The Doors sucked hardcore, too but for some reason you can't say shit about Jim Morrison. So I guess Grohl's crime is not dying?We were very pissed off about that, but it's obvious to everyone. We had two separate musicologists' reports saying it was. Our publisher sent their publisher a letter saying it was and they went 'Boo, never heard of ya!', but the hysterical thing about Nirvana saying they'd never heard of us was that they'd already sent us a Christmas card!
Nine years later, in 2003, Dave Grohl, Nirvana's drummer, took a leave of absence from his current band, the Foo Fighters, to record on drums for Killing Joke's second self-titled album. The move surprised some Nirvana fans, given Nirvana's past conflict with Killing Joke.