Nirvana Drummer Chad Channing Remembers Kurt Cobain
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- čas přidán 27. 12. 2022
- In this video i take a look at former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing and the role he played in Nirvana. I commentate on his friendship with Kurt Cobain, his history in the band and how the two ultimately went their own ways.
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Chad is a class act. He has never bad mouthed Kurt or Krist and he gave the band stability when they really needed it. His drumming was stellar on Bleach too.
Love that he added double bass to scoff and negative creep!
Nor Grohl! The two have always been respectful and cool to each other. Chad could have been bitter and angry but he’s always just been a class act.
@@crustyskellington4056 To be brutally honest he LOOKS like that type of guy doesn't get angry, or doesn't like to get angry, he seems like a genuine down-to-earth dude.
And he should have been on stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, he was really important for Nirvana during his three years with them. I know Grohl mencioned and praised him but IMO it is not enough.
@@rodrigofonseca6241 agreed, there would’ve been no nevermind or in utero without bleach
Chad should’ve been inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame with Nirvana.
Such a stupid decision not to.
MASSIVE RESPECT for Chad. I love his work on ‘Bleach.’
Chad was a great drummer and wrote some good stuff with Nirvana. And he helped with forming Nirvana's original sounding blueprint. This cant be taken away and he is in the musical history books now. But Dave did just have something many other drummers just didn't have, like more edge or something to his playing style. Dave was a heavy hitter. I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision for Kurt and Krist.
Chad was always a important part of Nirvana, he made some awesome drum parts and he also seems like a likable guy and a good person. We should appreciate the part he played in making Nirvana sound how they did.
I met Chad in 2019. Such a humble kinda guy. I was honored to shake hands with him
Chad Channing was a big influence on my drumming. I love Dave Grohl too but there is something unique in Chad's grooves. Would have been great to hear more of him.
I'm a drummer too, and I adopted Chad's sound as well! He's criminally underrated.
Agreed 👍🏽
Chad is a nice dude.
He is !
Yep I've always said he seems a complete gentleman
Chad has always seemed like such a sweet, gracious, fundamentally good human being.
Unlike that absolute creepshow who replaced him
In showbiz: a good heart is bad for buisness.
@@SlickBlackCadillac oh
@@fuchsia5899 it was a joke
Chad joined Nirvana as they went through drummers quickly, then. But he did good with them.
Yeah I liked his drumming on bleach and some of the songs on incesicide aswell
@@joeyarnold9372 what songs did he do on incestiside
@@TheChattehChad recorded drums for: ”Dive”, “Stain”, “Aero Zeppelin” and “Big Long Now.”
Chad also recorded “Polly” from Nevermind, which is pretty cool.
And obviously, he’s drumming on several of the live recordings on the compilation albums.
He was great and an absolutely likable guy.
@@omardcastrod - Aero Zeppelin is actually part of the Jan. 1988 demo that Nirvana (then called Ted Ed Fred) did with Dale Crover on drums. Downer, Beeswax, Mexican Seafood, Hairspray Queen, and Aero Zeppelin were all culled from the Crover demo. Chad plays drums on Dive, Stain, Been A Son, and Big Long Now. Danny Peters plays drums on Sliver, and Dave Grohl is the drummer for the rest of the tracks on Incesticide. 👍🏼
He was a good drummer he just wasn’t Dave grohl one of the most creative and talented drummers in music period
No one can ever take that away from Chad, amazing stuff. RIP Kurt.
chad always come across well
I always imagine Chad in place of Dave in all Nirvana music videos, concert footage, interviews, and photos of the band.
This makes me want to cry... I really feel for Chad in this interview. Good guy who lost a friend he cared for. Seems it's because of that psychic bond that he somehow knew it was Kurt's death being announced on the radio, noting he didn't know why or how, he just knew. Not because he thought it was due to drugs. Also at the beginning of the interview, he said he hated the comparisons, that Kurt wasn't anything like that. Towards the end of it, he says he was quiet, but it was good.
I love the "Bleach" album, it's my favorite, even though I love all Nirvana songs (and all members)! Thanks Chad for your input to the album and the band. I pray you find healing in the unfortunate loss of such a special person as Kurt Cobain.
Courtney really had him killed?
@@matthewschwartz6607 Yes! Read the book " Love kills" written by her FATHER .
@@matthewschwartz6607 No she didn't. You cannot convince anyone with half a brain that a suicide obsessed, suicidal, heroin addict dealing with the pressures of fame while also suffering from major depression which goes way back to his youth and through his family. A bipolar heroin dependant celebrity who literally tried to commit suicide a few months before his death.. did not kill himself.. are you serious Matthew?
@@delivereyes2479 shut up
@@matthewschwartz6607 AmercianSpyFox here on YT did a lot of work to get all the facts one could
She helped get Chris Cornell done too
Dave Grohl has publicly given credit to Chad for having written most of the drum parts on Nevermind as well. He said he was just playing Chad's parts.
Chad didn’t write most of the drum parts on nevermind. Dave gave him credit for In Bloom at the rock hall.
@@grillbuster1519 that's funny. I guess all of the Nevermind songs performed live with Chad on the drums must've happened after Dave wrote the drum parts.
@@robdugas4476 Kurt actually came up with most of the drum parts, although yes Chad played on Imodium/Breed and Polly but that’s still not most.
I liked Chad's drumming style and his beats on Bleach.
The about a girl drums are really neat
It will always and forever be a tragedy and embarrassment that Chad wasn’t inducted to the HOF with the band. Dave and Krist wanted it, but the HOF people didn’t. Dumb.
Jesus chad is the eternal grunge pixie. Dude don't age.
Hope you’re kidding. No way that’s a recent interview 😂
@@bidensniffedmetoo1005 if you see him now he still hasnt aged. Il need to ask him about his moisturising routine
I don’t think Kurt would’ve “aged” either. A lot “aging” is synonymous with either weight gain or hair loss for men. I don’t think Kurt would’ve had problems in either department.
Chad’s the Pete Best of the 1990s!
Exactly, Pete received some money after 30 years for Beatles Anthology Album, but no pictures of him on the album. Ringo never ever gives any kind of credit to Pete, the same the other 3 never a slight little piece of credit.
I saw them on their European tour. 1989. It was a great concert from an unknown band back then. It was clear to me, that it was a magic night. All three formed an union. Kurt was very happy. Never saw him again that happy…
would you remember which show or date specifically ?? curious, also youreblessedin a away. Thanks
@@hhnry7929 It was on November 23, 1989 - Cafe Pi, Graz, Austria. I wanted to see Pungent Stench but confused Thursday with Friday. So accidentally i ended up at Cafe PI, bought a Ticket and watched a "surprise" gig.
Good stuff! I hadn't heard Chad's thoughts on Kurt's death.
because nobody cares
Chad was a better friend than the other 2. It was his genuine sympathy & friendship which made think "it's Kurdt."
I saw Chad come into the marijuana store I worked at. He was super unassuming. Just looked like a regular guy with long hair. I would have never have thought he played a big part in such a legendary band. My coworker told me who he was and I said "really? Damn I've seen that guy around for years! I never knew." I grew up in the town next to Bainbridge where Chad lives.
Chad Channing was there at the start of it all
Seems like a genuinely good guy
Bleach is a great album. Probably my favorite from Nirvana. Chads a great drummer. And he seems like an all around cool Cat.
Although I never knew Kurt, I also felt like there was a conversation that will never happen.
Chad is a stand up dude..👍🏻 i like his drumming and i like his drumming on certain songs better than Dave's drumming on Certain songs.. they both are still my favourite drummers from a list of favourite drummers in all of music. Nirvana were brilliant 👍🏻🙏🏻 rest easy Kurt.
I didn't know Jim Carrey was the first drummer of Nirvana
Nice
is great to see is point of view he was in band before all of the nirvamania, and he was part of amazin album that is bleach . tons of respect for chad
I really wish Chad Channing was inducted in to the Rock and Roll hall of fame with nirvana
Know a lot of people focus on Grohl's drumming but I like Chad's had something drunken about it like Grohl once said
Honestly, bleach is so good! It’s the one album that catches Kurt’s and Nirvana’s humour, sarcasm and weirdness. Like In Utero it’s true alternative.
Bleach is my favorite nirvana album and Chad is a great drummer and the perfect drummer for that album, I'm not a drummer I'm a guitar player but I think he could have held his own on nevermind!
I remember that sound. I have a feeling there was some regret firing this guy. The other dude sounds different.
Left side of the thumbnail looks like Jim Carrey
I did not know that Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman used to play with Kurt Cobain.
rip kurt this is so sad
He aged so adorably! ❤❤❤
Dave may have had the bombastic style for a hard rock sound but Chad's drum parts were very creative
I really loved him in Grinch and the Mask
😄 haha
What a lovely fellow
It's A Shame About Kurt
Could have sworn that was Jim Carrey
Cool dude and good drummer. Sucks that he missed out on most of Nirvana's success.
he was lucky he got away from losers like cobain
Much better than grohl
@@rustyramsey7845
Uh, no.
I think that his drum style was to groovy... dave is much more of a square drummer Nirvana needed.
He will get a hell of a lot of royalties. Even their first drummer that did some scratchy live recordings gets about 500 a month.
I got goosebumps @ 1:55
Chad looks like Jim Carrey. That’s a good thing! ❤
Chad was great but Kurt knew he needed Dave to make it.
Dave made famous from chads drum parts on nevermind ...to me chads drumming is real grunge/punk and he should have been in the hall of fame just a shame!!!
I feel validated for how many times I say ‘you know’
Jim carry ex Nirvana drummer, then he got into comedy and movies.🤣. I love all Nirvana songs and drums, so i can play Chads drumming in My mind.
Dude Chad Channing is an underrated drummer his drumming on the Bleach album fits it really well
These guys Destroyed The Hairbands literally overnight we needed him so badly
I hope Chad got his right share of royalties off Bleach... and some off Nevermind(?)
True. He get royalties for crashing cymbals on Polly. I assume he get some royalties for In Bloom as well.
What's Channing doing now? I hear the Foo Fighters are looking for a new drummer, now that Taylor H. is no longer with us.
My father works at a Safeway here in Washington and he'll see Chad and talk to him every now and then. Me and my dad were talking about it one day if he should ask Chad whether or not he thought Kurt really did end his own life or if he was murdered. I told him that he shouldn't. Cause either way he's still dead and it's really just beating at a dead horse.
I would have asked him cause it clearly matters greatly since there is clear evidence already that his wife Courtney hired someone to kill him.
@1950's Glassware no it wouldn't be. There is nothing disrespectful about asking about something there is already evidence of.
@1950's Glassware if they had his phone number they could have asked him with a fake number and claimed to be someone else too
@@Kinseliplier dumb take
@@Kinseliplier Kurt took his life. Get over it lil man
Chad seems a lovely guy and played great on Bleach. Dave gave him a name check and credit at the Nirvana induction at the RNR Hall Of Fame. Nirvana wouldn't have become the band they became without Grohl.
I sincerely thought this was a SNL skit and that the drummer was Jim Carrey
Chad Channing wouldn’t sell out or sell his soul so he got kicked out of the band. They we’re getting ready to make it big and you have to take the oath and Chad wasn’t willing.
I wouldn’t doubt it, he too laid back and doesn’t sound bitter in any way.
i wish he had gotten to say goodbye to his friend
Jim Carrey was in Nirvana??
Thank you!! I thought it was him in the thumbnail. Glad to know I'm not crazy. At least not for that reason.
LoL 😂
Ace Ventura, Nirvana Drummer
Many assumed this was a Pete Best situation. Another good dude
except pete best never played on any beatles album
love ya chad ur awesome
I feel Chad fit into the bad soooooooo much better character wise. He was just as gentle as Kurt and it feels like he was probably also an outcast in high school. I really like his calm energy. Dave is more of the sunny boy popular kid. Nothing wrong with that but yeah, … Less of a fit personality wise
So Jim Carrey joined Nirvana first before he became an actor?
Jim Carrey is that you..
I always thought it was a personality thing, as nothing wrong with Chad’s drumming, but by the sound of it they got on well.
❤️
He looks like Jim Carrey!😳
I love Chad, Bleach was iconic. That said, his mannerisms remind me of Garth from Wayne's World
One wonders if Kurt is still alive with Chad in the band. Not only is the “Butterfly Effect” real, but I think with Chad thru stay more an Indy type band vs what became glam grunge rock. Kurt was the type of musician that was never meant to get big and rich. If he lived check to check, no time for buying kilos of dope and wallowing in his own thoughts.
Good guy.
Bleach was their best album.
The pete best of the 90s
Chad wrote the drums for 5 Nevermind songs and u guys never mention it. Chad wrote in Bloom, Breed, Lithium, Polly, and Stay Away
.16 damn imagine being that Dave foster guy watching nirvana blow up without you because you got in a fight. I never even knew this
Chad looks like someone’s wholesome 65 year old mother now.
???
It's not surprising he thought it might be Kurt. Just weeks earlier there had been reports that Kurt had been rushed to the hospital for a drug overdose. We all thought he might not survive but he did. Around the same time there was the new Nirvana song called I Hate Myself and Want to Die that was included in the Beavis and Butthead album. Then this. It was hugely disappointing but not a surprise.
No big loss. Many die every day.
I was born in 94, wish I could have lived while he was around but I miss him even though he is only a memory now to everyone
If you listen to smells like teen spirit, the drums are ultimately a hip hop beat just being played hard and soft. Supposedly Kurt didn't want to be famous but in reality he really tried to be mainstream with Dave's drums and the way he wrote all of his songs to be so catchy. I would have loved to hear Chad on Nevermind.
He played crash cymbals on Polly.
Exactly right. That's a key thing about Cobain. He wanted to be famous and mainstream in music. He just acted like he didn't. Rick Beato has an interview with Krist and he says this exactly.
Dave said he was inspired by disco music
@@SilentProti I'm sure he said a lot of things but there was no disco homage on Nevermind. For Dave, it was Hip Hop and Sonic Youth, that's it. Dave can try and sound more cultured by saying he was inspired by disco or even contemporary orchestra. But's not interfaced through the Nevermind record whatsoever.
I love Bleach. Awesome album.
There is only a few Nirvana albums how many drummers can say they were on one and toured with the band Chad can
I hate the grunge scene, but I still respected it as a blues player
Chad gets royalties from 3 cymbal beats on Polly's song
Bleach and Insecticide are their best albums imo
i wonder if dave has have meet up with him to jam that would be cool if he did.
Of course he wouldn’t ever do that
If I'm correct he went to go either make or join Foo Fighters?
Are you the guy who made the huge Nirvana documentary?
Chad was a great drummer but he was too physically small to consistently and powerfully perform against chris and kurt's sonic onslaught which dave did well. Dave was more or less the same as chad in his playing, as he would play chad's original compositions on many songs. Dave was around 6 feet tall and way stronger which would enable him to be more dynamic, powerhouse and loud behind the kit. Sound engineer Butch Vig recalls that when he sat in rehearsals before the nevermind studio sessions took place, he saw that dave's kit did not have any mics. He asked kurt if any mics would be needed, kurt said no, he dont need them, you'll see. When they played dave was so powerful there was sawdust on the drum riser.
Chris and kurt recollected once that after they met chad to tell him they were going to get a new drummer and he was out of the band, when the travelled back home, they felt like they had just killed someone. It must have been hard for chad to witness from afar nirvana's success during and post nevermind's release. Rolling stone once said that it must have felt like winning the lottery only to find that you lost the ticket.
Bleach is Nirvana's best album in my opinion, not even close.
Can anyone give me insight into what about Chad's playing Kurt and Krist felt couldn't evolve naturally into their next era of songwriting after Bleach?
He got fired for no reason, he was really good
Even if Kurt didn't like his playing, I liked the grooves Chad created over the few I liked that Dave did with In Utero. Dave's best groove creation was the first FF solo project.
Chad is a positive persona and better drummer than Dave Grohl...Bleach was a heavy album with excellent songs.
Chad was the best drummer NIRVANA had!!!! 🏆🏅🥁
Yep, Dave Grohl has aknowleged Chad as a great drummer and even gave him credit for drum parts people think Dave made up but Dave wasn't even on Bleach..
@@pocket1684exactly. Like his Rock n Roll hall of fame speech which he said In Bloom’s intro drum solo was Chad’s creation, and let me tell you that In Bloom is the best drum song they still have.
@@Abegoldhatch I agree.
Chad was best Nirvana’s Drummer and Dale Crover is the best drummer Nirvana ever had.
Джим Керри?!
without a doubt. bleach is the best album and my number one favorite better than nevermind and in utero. anyway, how many times does chad say "you know" 😂
Well you know, probably a few times
In Utero was a masterpiece from Nirvana but bleach was good also
young bob weir ???
Only cowards commit suicide, especially when they have children. Only the strong get to live. All of the others willingly take their place amongst the dead.
have you heard about the new courtney love song (its not out yet and its not going to be on her new album) called justice for kurt she says shes not going to release it because we are to stupid or something
Waat
Yep. Heard the interview on podcast, but not the new song on her upcoming album she said she isn't releasing (🤔)?? Oh well. Won't be listening anyway. However, in the interview of 3:26, she repeatedly calls Kurt "the ruiner" and that he ruins everything. It's clearly obvious she fucking hates him. It's probably because the world still loves him, not her. She finishes exasperated at the end of it screaming he's been dead over 30 years already! Seemingly annoyed over the fact that the majority of people around the world who know of this simply don't believe her bullshit lies, that's all.
The Pete Best of grunge…
Bleach was the best album by far