How come your Nirvana colleague Pat Smear Is rejoining Foo Fighters for the acoustic shows?
“Pat’s back, it’s fun! As we were putting this whole thing together we invited a few of our friends. A lot of the songs have more than two guitar parts so I started thinking, if there’s a place in a song where we can build even bigger, we should. So rather then get someone we don’t really know, let’s get someone who’s been in the band before. I’d been in touch with Pat, so I asked him and he said yes. Honestly it’s like he never left.   “He’s one of the greatest people I’ve ever met in my entire life, I remember when Kurt came to practice and said, ‘Oh I’ve found our second guitar player,’ so we asked ‘who, and he said, ‘It’s Pat Smear from The Germs,’ We couldn’t believe he was still alive. I imagined, since he was in The Germs he’d be some beat-up junkie barely making it in Hollywood. He came to the first practice and I swear it was like a beacon of light. It completely lifted the mood and made it a happier place to be.” Speaking of Nirvana, Kurt Cobaln was voted Number One In NM
