Krist Novoselic and Tool’s Maynard James Keenan Agree: “Part of Nirvana’s Success Was Due to Timing”

Last week, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan said that Nirvana’s success may have been due to “timing.” He told Yahoo! Music, “It just happened to be a perfect time for Nirvana to emerge ’cause people were tired of hair bands. I don’t know. It might have had nothing to do with Nirvana. It was just timing.” Now, the band’s former bassist Krist Novoselic has responded, telling Alternative Nation, “Maynard James Keenan is right that music was set to change in the early ’90s and part of Nirvana’s success was due to timing.”

Novoselic continued, “I have always said that bands like Faith No More and Jane’s Addiction broke ground for us with the mainstream.” He also agreed with Keenan’s hair band assessment, stating, that the “movement was exhausted and musical cycles used to give us new interpretations of Rock.” He later called Nirvana “the last of the pre-internet bands.” Read Novoselic’s full statement here, and check out Keenan’s interview–where he discusses his new biography–here.

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