Dave Grohl turned down the chance to become Tom Petty's drummer because he couldn't stomach returning to the stage so soon after Kurt Cobain's death.
The Foo Fighters star has revealed the offer came in just after Nirvana called it a day following Cobain's death in 1994. Grohl had joined Petty's band The Heartbreakers for a Saturday Night Live appearance and the American Girl rocker suggested he should be Stan Lynch's permanent replacement. "We had so much fun (on SNL) and we all got along so well," Grohl told Howard Stern on Friday. "We played SNL and afterwards he was like, 'Man, that was good.
It would be a shame if that’s the only time we do it'. "And then he called me at home and he's like, 'Well look, if you want. . .
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