Dave Grohl joined Nirvana in 1990.
In an interview on CBS 's Sunday Morning Nirvana drummer , now guitarist and vocalist for the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl , spoke about why he didn't write songs for Nirvana.
"When I recorded what became the first Foo Fighters album, I didn't think of it as an album. I wanted to get up, go out, and play something, even if nobody had ever heard it before."
Long before that, I used to record songs on my own and never let anyone hear them because I really didn't think they were good. I didn't like my voice, I didn't think I was a good songwriter. And I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation […].
But there was someone we knew from Seattle. After Kurt Cobain died, he wrote me a card: 'I know you don't feel it now, but someday the music will come back and it will heal you.'"
Grohl continued, “I wish I could sing like John Lennon, Adele , or Josh Groban or anything else. But, you know, I was raised on really dissident, loud, crazy punk rock. So a lot of my favorite vocalists, most people wouldn’t consider singers. They just glint, they just scream. The passion in that is what I appreciated most because I find beauty in imperfection and that’s something I love about our band.”