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Did you know that Dave Grohl quit Nirvana in 1993?

The story was revealed this year in a biography called “This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl.”

Here’s what Dave says happened on a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles: “Kurt was kinda f***ed up. And I heard him talking about how sh***y a drummer I was.”

Krist later told Dave that Kurt wanted him to play more like Dan Peters from Mudhoney, who Dave had replaced in Nirvana.

Dave called Nirvana’s tour manager to quit, explaining that he just wanted “to f***ing play music” and not “to have to deal with any of this craziness,” but the tour manager convinced him to stick with it.

Paul Brannigan, the author of the Grohl biography, thinks that if Kurt hadn’t died and Nirvana had continued as a band, Dave would have eventually quit for real.

He says, “Dave was very aware that Nirvana was Kurt and Krist’s band, and that as lifelong friends, they shared a bond which went beyond music. At some point I feel that Dave would have parted company with the pair.”