Paul McCartney chosen to be the front man of Nirvana in the upcoming reunion.

Oh dear!
My fond memories will forever be ruined now.

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Well the one thing I will say is that I am pro raising money for the victims of hurricane Sandy. So that is good.

Couldnt they just have picked somebody that would make Nirvana fans happy!???

Originally posted by Lagrimas

Apparently at rehearsals Paul said: 'so you guys havent been playing together for a while' and somebody told him they were Nirvana and he said 'who!?' Jeez.

Not quite. From the article:

He [McCartney] told The Sun: “I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?

“And somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

I take that to mean he didn't initially realise who Grohl and Novoselic were but had indeed heard of Nirvana.

I really can't picture McCartney singing Smells Like Teen Spirit. Always good to see Grohl on drums though

hmm great match.

i get Paul McCartney is a legend blah blah and Nirvana was huge but together? Thats why we dont have Reese's Mayonaise cups after that guy dropped his chocolate in my mayo.

Clearly Kurt was a time traveler and shot himself in the face in anticipation.

Sure, raising charity cash is always good, but McCartney.... Pleeeeaaassee!

All Apologies to beatles fans but I think he;s likely to have an Aneurysm, Even In His Youth he was a Negative Creep. I guess Chris is just trying to Milk It.

Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Clearly Kurt was a time traveler and shot himself in the face in anticipation.

Good one.

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Originally posted by Fazza!

Originally posted by Lagrimas

Apparently at rehearsals Paul said: 'so you guys havent been playing together for a while' and somebody told him they were Nirvana and he said 'who!?' Jeez.

Not quite. From the article:

He [McCartney] told The Sun: “I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?

“And somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

I take that to mean he didn't initially realise who Grohl and Novoselic were but had indeed heard of Nirvana.

I really can't picture McCartney singing Smells Like Teen Spirit. Always good to see Grohl on drums though

edit on 12/12/2012 by Fazza! because: (no reason given)

Its all a load of hogwash mate, why would he be in the rehearsal room, if he didnt know exactly what he was doing? Macca dont get out of bed unless its a good reason, so its all baloney, surely.
I preferred my version of events. Makes macca look dumber, hey maybe im the next sorcha!!

I read that article, came back on ATS and by the time I wrote the thread my brain had perverted the truth slightly to make it more shocking

what next Beyoncé joining Sayer

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! This is just not right!

Somebody please tell McCartney to just GO HOME!!!!

This is madness!!!

Well, at least one Macca fan is not going to like this and make a useless post on ATS about it.

Originally posted by Lagrimas

Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Clearly Kurt was a time traveler and shot himself in the face in anticipation.

Good one.

It's brilliant, really. It could go either way. Personally I'd blow my brains out if I traveled to the future and discovered paul mcartney was filling in for me. But I've always thought The Beatles suck.

WAIT..... I think we've just stumbled across some sort of schrodinger's cat...

im not really a Beatles or a Nirvanna fan

but this is truly strange and pretty cool never the less


i wanna see this

Originally posted by Fazza!
Always good to see Grohl on drums though

I'd rather see him on the new Queens of the Stone Age album.

Personally, I hope they have a new album release.

The author of the article has made a coming together of musicians into something salacious. The article says the former members of Nirvana and Sir Paul have been working on a new song in the studio and that is what they are going to play at the benefit. They aren't going to play any Nirvana songs. The title should have been more like: "Sir Paul McCartney will be backed by the former members of Nirvana at benefit"

McCartney is best known for his "silly love songs" but he does have the ability rock hard. His solo album Wild Life is a good example. There is an unreleased version of Helter Skelter that really cranks also.
I understand Sir Paul is quite old but remember the former members of Nirvana are aging too. I really hope the song is a hard rocking number and applaud them for getting together. I am sure it will be memorable.

From what I've understood they will only be playing one song and it won't be a Nirvana song, a new song, so can't really call it a "nirvana reformation" it's more like a mccartney playing with the remaining nirvana group members.

Also note that Grohl and McCartney have already played together on some occasions.

Grohl is still an excellent artist though, and does frequently make songs that could go with McCartney's "repertoire".

But it is a rip off calling this a reformation of Nirvana