i'll ask mike north.

Zeppelin is for old stoner dorks. Kid Rock is where its at! Amen!

Kurt Cobain wasn't even the best guitarist in his band let alone one of the "all time" greats...

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that dude is a complete whack job though...

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who was the best guitarist in Nirvana b/c it certainly was not Pat Smeer?

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I see. Its kinda like how the best drummer in Foo Fighters doesn't play drums in the band.

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Or like How Lauryn Hill was the best female rapper but was more known for singing....

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How many Nirvana songs did Dave Grohl write on guitar while drumming for Nirvana?

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Not enough

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If he just listened to that horrendous karaoke on the show, he just went totally nuts.

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None. But my opinion is he's a better song writer and musician, by far.

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

that is a different statement than "Kurt wasn't the best guitarist in his own band."

musician, i would agree.
songwriter, i think they are both about the same.

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No J. Mascis, Doug? I figured you'd be a fan.

+1

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I have a few Dinosaur Jr. albums from the early 90s...

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Agreed

Lauryn Hill is a disgusting human being

Hindsight is 20-10 kids...Dave Grohl said that he didn't become a decent guitar player until AFTER Nirvana broke up.

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Great...but he's still a better guitar player now than Cobain ever was...

I am a big fan. The wife? Not so much. I loved Green Mind.

But, he wasn't the best guitar player in Nirvana...which was the original post.

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Are you actually arguing the semantics of a sarcastic remark?

Dave was writing music during the major Nirvana tours. He might not have been as "good" as Kurt then, but I'll be it was close.

Songwriting is equal?!? Really?!? Well, I guess that's an opinion and that can't be argued, but I disagree...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

The original post was a joke, albeit, a joke based on my opinion of Kurt Cobain's guitar "prowess"...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

Sarcasm is not the easiest thing to read in print...which is why the web gods invented smiley's.

Dave may have been writing music during the major Nirvana tours, but it wasn't guitar for Nirvana songs.

Yeah, I think the songwriting is equal.

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How so?

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C'mon. It was pretty apparent I was being a knucklehead without putting a smiley in there.



Which is a good thing, IMO. I heard he was intimidated by Kurt and wouldn't play his musings around him.



Well opinions are like posts on an internet forum. Everyone always disagrees with mine.

I think Dave writes funnier, upbeats songs with tons more latitude for creative drumming, while Kurt's songs where more; whisper verse/bash chorus/whisper verse/bash chorus/crappy solo/bash chorus...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

Foo Fighters can kiss my Little Debby's...

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If foo fighters and nirvana were a band at the same time, i may agree with you more. but, they weren't. so, comparing songs that were written 3-14 years after Kurt, uh...stopped writing music, isn't really a fair comparison imo.
Dave had the experience of Nirvana to shape his writing. Would Kurt still be playing Nirvana-esque grunge-pop songs in his 40s?

There are a lot of knuckleheaded things that get posted here, so I take what everyone writes literally instead of trying to sift through the obvious and sarcastic. When there were 20 posters, it was easier to figure that out.

Dave does write more funny upbeat songs. There are very few current creative rock drummers imo, but to each his own. I can think of one.

quiet-loud-quiet-loud....You just described 90s alternative grunge rock in a nutshell.

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