Bush‘s Gavin Rossdale had reflected on his old feuds with Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor, describing them as “stupid” and mere “bitchy exchanges”.The vocalist and guitarist was speaking to NME in a recent Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!
quiz when he reflected on the past beef with his fellow musicians.Rossdale’s feud with the Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters vocalist and guitarist dated back to the ’90s after Grohl wore an anti-Bush T-shirt and implied that they were a cash-grab band, along with making some barbs in the press.“Yeah, he wore a shirt which put the dollar sign through Bu$h – so we [the band and crew] later put similar dollar signs through our T-shirts.
That was the gig I went up to Dave and said, ‘I don’t understand what the problem is. Isn’t any shades of your band [Nirvana] in us how it goes?’” Rossdale said.He added: “I don’t sing like a hair-metal band like Poison, Mötley Crüe or Guns N’ Roses.
I always thought grunge was just more aggressive post-punk music. There was never a cynical plan: as much as I loved the 4AD shoegaze bands, I never fell in love with their performances in the same way I did Perry Farrell.“I always wanted the chaos of big guitars and people flying into cymbals, so it suited me to make music like that.
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