Foo Fighters’ 2011 album Wasting Light was their heaviest to date, but that wasn’t the only way in which Dave Grohl was going back to his roots on the rock titans’ seventh studio album. There was also the presence of Butch Vig on production duties, the first time Grohl had worked with him since Vig was producer on a little record called Nevermind. Then there was the return of guitarist – and sometime Nirvana live player – Pat Smear to the fold. The one that really made Wasting Light as close as you can get to a Nirvana reunion, though, was the appearance of his old bandmate Krist Novoselic playing bass and accordion on the track I Should Have Known.
“Krist and I have always been very close,” Grohl told Classic Rock. “And Butch too. When we made Nevermind, that record has changed everybody’s lives in the most profound way. It wasn’t something anybody expected to happen. And when it did it was just crazy. When we see each other now, we hug each other because we’re excited that we’re still friends. But we also sort of do it to console each other. Because when Kurt died, it just fucking destroyed our lives. We’ve always remained close. But we’ve never been in the studio together since Nevermind. The three of us together sitting in front of speakers and a mixing desk, that hasn’t happened in 20 years.”
