guitarist Peter Buck for the latter’s next solo album and describes, in this additional excerpt from our conversation, the eerie thrill that came during a session last year with Grohl, guitarist Pat Smear – who played with Nirvana on the In Utero tour – and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney.
Novoselic recently recorded with ex-R.E.M. He still plays bass, as well as accordion. Where Does Nirvana’a ‘In Utero’ Rank on Our 100 Greatest Albums of the Nineties? Novoselic, now 48, is active in state politics and studying for an online-university degree in social sciences. The setting for the interview was far removed from rock madness: the children’s reading room in a public library in Longview, Washington, an hour-or-so’s drive south of Aberdeen, where Novoselic and Cobain first met and, in 1987, started what became Nirvana.
Novoselic spoke to Rolling Stone for a major feature about In Utero and Cobain’s final, convulsive year before his suicide in April, 1994. “It brings back a lot of memories – good memories, painful memories. “There is a lot of baggage that comes with it,” Novoselic says of all that listening. Novoselic worked closely with drummer Dave Grohl (now leading Foo Fighters) on the project, which includes a definitive remastering of the original LP, a new mix by its producer, Steve Albini, and early demos and rehearsals.
It is a couple of weeks before the release of a deluxe 20th-anniversary reissue of that band’s 1993 album, In Utero – the last studio record Novoselic made with his late friend and Nirvana‘s leader, singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain. “I listened to a lot of Nirvana lately,” bassist Krist Novoselic says one morning in early September.
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