Pat Smear‘s joining Nirvana in 1993 almost ended before it started.
His first show with them was on Saturday Night Live on September 25th, 1993, but Kurt Cobain didn’t like the guitar he chose to play on the show.
During a recent conversation with his Foo Fighters bandmates Dave Grohl and Chris Shiflett for Premier Guitar, Smear said he’d planned to play his new Charvel guitar. “What I didn’t know at the time… There was a discussion about me and that guitar like, ‘No, no, no, we can’t let him on stage.’
“Kurt ended up giving me this rad guitar (a blue Mosrite Mark V to play instead), which is not a Charvel.”
Smear had the guitar until last year when the Foo Fighters were on SNL appearance with H.E.R. He noticed she was playing a Charvel, so he sent her his.
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