The band also brought out Dave Grohl’s 18-year-old daughter, Violet Grohl, to wrap up the set with an emotional rendition of “All Apologies” Joan Jett performs with Pat Smear, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana during the FireAid benefit concert at the Kia Forum.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The surviving members of weren’t part of the official FireAid bill, but they took the stage near the end of the Kia Forum show in Inglewood, California, to tear through “Breed” with , “School” with , “Territorial Pissings” with and “All Apologies” with Violet Grohl, the 18-year-old daughter of Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear dissolved Nirvana after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, but they came back together in 2012 to record “Cut Me Some Slack” with Paul McCartney.
Two years later, when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, they performed with St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett, and Lorde. Later that night, they played an extended set at the tiny Brooklyn club St.
Vitus. They last took the stage together in 2018 at Cal Jam in San Bernardino, California. Nearly every time they’ve played since Cobain’s death, a female singer was brought in to sing his words.
The idea came to them early in their rehearsals for the Hall of Fame in 2014. “We thought, ‘Wait, it has to be all women,’” “‘Don’t even ask anyone else. If we can fill the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance with these incredible women singing Nir.