Dave Grohl has remembered the early days of Nirvana.
The former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, 54, joined Krist Novoselic and producer Steve Albini on the Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast on Monday to discuss Nirvana's success.
Reflecting on the band's inception, the Learn To Fly singer recalled living with late frontman Kurt Cobain.
"Before we made Nevermind, we were pretty much living in squalor," Dave explained. "I was living with Kurt in this tiny little apartment and there were corn dog sticks and cigarettes all over the place. It was f**king disgusting. I would have done anything to have had my own apartment, and to do that through making music."
While Dave remembered Nirvana went from "three kids touring out of a van to becoming a huge band", he argued it was still far from an overnight success.
"You didn't just wind up with $1 million in your mailbox the next day. The per diem went up to $15 a day," the rocker explained. "We were staying in motels. And then, from September to December of 1991, everything blew up."
He added that the band's third album In Utero became the "uncomfortable soundtrack to that transition".
"By 1992 or 1993, we were living in a different world than we were just 16 months before."
Nirvana released a 30th-anniversary edition of In Utero earlier this month.
The album marked the band's final release of original material before Kurt died by suicide at age 27 in April 1994, following a battle with drug abuse and depression.
