Nirvana made Steve Albini prank call Eddie Vedder and Gene Simmons
nme.comDave Grohl and Krist Novoselic have revealed that Nirvana once made producer Steve Albini prank call Eddie Vedder and KISS‘ Gene Simmons.While appearing on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, the surviving members of the iconic grunge band and Albini shared that they would help pass the time while in the studio by prank-calling people.This was during their time spent at the Pachyderm Recording Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
They recalled how there wasn’t very much to do.”This was in February, in the dead of winter, in the middle of fucking nowhere,” said Grohl. “So even just the walk from the house to the studio, which was what – 100 yards if that – you risk frostbite.” Both Novoselic and O’Brien joked that the studio was a “gulag ….
with an indoor swimming pool.”Albini recalled his prank-call to KISS bassist Gene Simmons over the period in which the band were recording ‘In Utero’. “I pretended to be Kurt [Cobain] calling Gene Simmons.
Gene Simmons had called their management because there was a KISS tribute album being put together, and Nirvana – the biggest band in the world – were friends with the Melvins, and Melvins did a KISS cover, and he assumed that Nirvana would want to do a KISS cover.
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