“What Nirvana did was nothing new –- Husker Du did it before us,” Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic once said. Foo Fighters founder and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl put it more succinctly: “No Husker Du, no Foo Fighters.” Green Day covered one of Husker Du’s Hart-written songs, “Don’t Want to Know if you are Lonely,” and Billie Joe Armstrong once said, “I wanted to be Husker Du when I started Green Day.”
Haha , ironically I was in a garage/cover band in the early 90s. we played a few green day (Dookie) songs as well as several Husker du songs (including don't want to know if you are lonely). we rarely ventured out of the basement to play gigs, but occasionally we did. Our Green Day songs went over well, I wanted to play the Husker Du songs but the band was concerned the audience wouldn't care for them- so I came up with a compromise- I introduced them as Green Day songs and we played them. can't tell if anyone in the audience was the wiser
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