Writer 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 by a collection of drummers up till the recording of ‘Bleach,’ together with Dan Peters of Mudhoney. Kurt Cobain… Largely Kurt Cobain — he had change into bored with Chad Channing. He wished a tougher drummer, somebody who hit tougher. They had been nice associates and, from what I perceive, remained nice associates, Chris and Kurt with Chad Channing, all through the rest of the band. However they simply wished a drummer that hit onerous.”
“So, within the spring of 1990, Chad was requested to go away the band,” Boyd continued. “And it was at a pivotal time, as a result of that they had some main label curiosity, ‘Bleach’ was promoting nicely, that they had 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, though Mudhoney was on hiatus on the time, assumed that he was gonna get the function. He was gonna be Nirvana’s new full-time drummer.”
“However fully 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 course of Nirvana. And the remaining is historical past.”
