Former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl recently admitted in an interview with Washington Post that for various reasons he has been unable to bring himself to watch the Brett Morgen made documentary Montage of Heck on his former band mate Kurt Cobain.
Though Grohl was interviewed on camera for the documentary, he had never actually watched the whole finished product. In the interview Grohl said that his wife had turned on HBO when they were in bed one night and the documentary was on. Grohl could not watch more than 10 minutes of it before having to shut it off being terrified of what some of the darker footage may have done to him.
“All the footage of him as a child, I think that might make me sad, and then the dark stuff at the end I think would bum me out."
This is not surprising considering that the death of Cobain in 1994 had a tremendous impact on Grohl. It put him into a depressive state and nearly made him quit music altogether.
“I couldn’t even imagine getting behind a drum set, because it would just keep me emotionally in that place."
Eventually though, Grohl realized that making music could be the way out of his pit of sadness and began handing out cassettes of music he had recorded completely on his own to his friends. These songs became the Foo Fighters' first album Foo Fighters on July 4th 1995; which lead to Grohl being part of two of the biggest rock n' roll bands to ever exist.
Personally I don't blame Grohl for opting out of watching the documentary. There is no need to revisit that can of worms when he has made so much progress as a musician and a person. Some times the past should stay where it belongs. Grohl has a lot of guts for being able to pull himself together and do what he did after what happened. Not many people have that kind of strength and fortitude.
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