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Watch Dave Grohl confess to Pharrell that his Nirvana drumbeats were swiped from disco songs
Date: 2021-06-30 00:00:00

In this wonderful clip below, Dave Grohl explains to Pharrell that his primary source of rhythmic inspiration for Nirvana's culture-shifting 1991 album Nevermind were disco beats borrowed from the Gap Band, Cameo, and Tony Thompson of Chic.

I love Grohl's wonderful beatboxing of the opening beat to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which he swiped from the Gap Band's "Burn Rubber On Me" (1980).

"[Tony Thompson] came to my house for a barbecue with somebody," Grohl says. "I was like, 'Man, I just want to thank you because I owe so much, I've been ripping you off my whole life.' And he goes, 'I know.'"

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