Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Post Nirvana (since 1995)

 
The following year, Novoselic continued to dabble in musical endeavors. He discussed creating a new band, the Foo Fighters, with friend and former bandmate Dave Grohl but both decided against it because they believed people would think of Foo Fighters as a new incarnation of Nirvana. Novoselic instead formed the band Sweet 75 in 1995, releasing a single self-titled album in 1997. Even though he turned Foo Fighters down, in 2002 he performed uncredited background vocals on one song during the One by One album sessions. The track is "Walking a Line", released on the One by One bonus DVD and as an iTunes bonus track to the album, in a tribute to Cobain.

In 1998 Novoselic directed his first movie, L7: The Beauty Process, a pseudo-documentary that utilizes concert footage taped in 1997 in three American cities. In 1999, he joined Jello Biafra and former Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil in the No WTO Combo. He then joined former Meat Puppets front man Curt Kirkwood and former Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh to form Eyes Adrift, which disbanded in 2003. This band was significant as it was the first official release in his career where he sang lead vocals. He also took a highly active role in the song writing process, co-writing several songs with Kirkwood.

 
Following the end of Eyes Adrift, Novoselic announced that he was quitting the music business, noting that he disliked the process of building up publicity for new records. However, in recent years, Novoselic has occasionally worked on music for a possible solo album, noting, "Right now, I'm just doing it for myself, and that's what it's all about."[10]

In November 2006, it was announced that Novoselic would join Flipper, replacing Bruno DeSmartas on bass, for a tour of the UK and Ireland.[11] He was a full time member of the band and had been working on their new album.[12] On 22 September 2008, due to responsibilities at home, Novoselic announced his departure from the band.[13] As a result, the band canceled the remainder of the tour. Rachel Thoele then replaced Novoselic.[14] In 2009, he played a newspaper vendor in the movie World's Greatest Dad starring Robin Williams.

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