Paul has admitted he didn't realise he'd fired up a Nirvana reunion
until he, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear had been jamming
for more than an hour.
Paul had been invited by Grohl to make music for his 2013 movie Sound City, but couldn't decide what to contribute when he arrived for the recording session.
McCartney tells Radio.com:
"Dave said, ‘Should we do an old rock'n'roll song?’ A couple of the
ones he mentioned I’d done with the Beatles. I said, ‘I don’t want to
try to top those.’
"I started kicking around and Dave jumped in on drums – there was no
way there wasn’t going to be any chemistry. Then Krist and Pat started
playing alongside us, and we suddenly had a big thing going. It was all
over in about three hours. All of us had a complete blast."
The revelation that he was playing with the surviving members of Kurt
Cobain's band only hit him midway through. "I didn't know I was in a
Nirvana reunion," he says. "It was only when I heard them talking, 'Hey,
we hadn't this in 20 years or something.' I'm going, 'What are you
talking about, guys?' 'Well, you know, we're Nirvana.' I must admit I
didn't even know. I said, 'Okay, that's pretty cool.'"
The result of the jam was their track Cut Me Some Slack, which went on to win a Grammy. Nirvana were last month inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, with Cobain's widow Courtney Love appeared to end her feud with Grohl by hugging him on stage.
Meanwhile, Paul says he wishes more people would ask him about
his glory days with the Beatles. "It's like talking about your college
days," he says. "People think sometimes, 'I don't want to bore you; I
don't want to ask you a Beatles question.' I say, 'No, it's okay.'
"I could be at a dinner party and everyone is telling their stories
and I'm thinking, 'It would be good if they asked me a Beatles question –
I've got a few stories there.'"
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