Chad is a class act. He has never bad mouthed Kurt or Krist and he gave the band stability when they really needed it. His drumming was stellar on Bleach too.

Chad should’ve been inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame with Nirvana.

Chad was always a important part of Nirvana, he made some awesome drum parts and he also seems like a likable guy and a good person. We should appreciate the part he played in making Nirvana sound how they did.

MASSIVE RESPECT for Chad. I love his work on ‘Bleach.’

Chad Channing was a big influence on my drumming. I love Dave Grohl too but there is something unique in Chad's grooves. Would have been great to hear more of him.

I met Chad in 2019. Such a humble kinda guy. I was honored to shake hands with him

Chad joined Nirvana as they went through drummers quickly, then. But he did good with them.

Chad is a nice dude.

Chad has always seemed like such a sweet, gracious, fundamentally good human being.

It will always and forever be a tragedy and embarrassment that Chad wasn’t inducted to the HOF with the band. Dave and Krist wanted it, but the HOF people didn’t. Dumb.

chad always come across well

I always imagine Chad in place of Dave in all Nirvana music videos, concert footage, interviews, and photos of the band.

This makes me want to cry... I really feel for Chad in this interview. Good guy who lost a friend he cared for. Seems it's because of that psychic bond that he somehow knew it was Kurt's death being announced on the radio, noting he didn't know why or how, he just knew. Not because he thought it was due to drugs. Also at the beginning of the interview, he said he hated the comparisons, that Kurt wasn't anything like that. Towards the end of it, he says he was quiet, but it was good. I love the "Bleach" album, it's my favorite, even though I love all Nirvana songs (and all members)! Thanks Chad for your input to the album and the band. I pray you find healing in the unfortunate loss of such a special person as Kurt Cobain.

Dave Grohl has publicly given credit to Chad for having written most of the drum parts on Nevermind as well. He said he was just playing Chad's parts.

No one can ever take that away from Chad, amazing stuff. RIP Kurt.

I liked Chad's drumming style and his beats on Bleach.

Good stuff! I hadn't heard Chad's thoughts on Kurt's death.

I saw them on their European tour. 1989. It was a great concert from an unknown band back then. It was clear to me, that it was a magic night. All three formed an union. Kurt was very happy. Never saw him again that happy…

Jesus chad is the eternal grunge pixie. Dude don't age.

I saw Chad come into the marijuana store I worked at. He was super unassuming. Just looked like a regular guy with long hair. I would have never have thought he played a big part in such a legendary band. My coworker told me who he was and I said "really? Damn I've seen that guy around for years! I never knew." I grew up in the town next to Bainbridge where Chad lives.

Chad’s the Pete Best of the 1990s!

Although I never knew Kurt, I also felt like there was a conversation that will never happen.

Bleach is a great album. Probably my favorite from Nirvana. Chads a great drummer. And he seems like an all around cool Cat.

Chad was a better friend than the other 2. It was his genuine sympathy & friendship which made think "it's Kurdt."

Chad Channing was there at the start of it all

Bleach is my favorite nirvana album and Chad is a great drummer and the perfect drummer for that album, I'm not a drummer I'm a guitar player but I think he could have held his own on nevermind!

Chad is a stand up dude..👍🏻 i like his drumming and i like his drumming on certain songs better than Dave's drumming on Certain songs.. they both are still my favourite drummers from a list of favourite drummers in all of music. Nirvana were brilliant 👍🏻🙏🏻 rest easy Kurt.

I didn't know Jim Carrey was the first drummer of Nirvana Nice

Honestly, bleach is so good! It’s the one album that catches Kurt’s and Nirvana’s humour, sarcasm and weirdness. Like In Utero it’s true alternative.

is great to see is point of view he was in band before all of the nirvamania, and he was part of amazin album that is bleach . tons of respect for chad

Could have sworn that was Jim Carrey

What a lovely fellow

Seems like a genuinely good guy

I really wish Chad Channing was inducted in to the Rock and Roll hall of fame with nirvana

rip kurt this is so sad

Cool dude and good drummer. Sucks that he missed out on most of Nirvana's success.

Left side of the thumbnail looks like Jim Carrey

I really loved him in Grinch and the Mask

Know a lot of people focus on Grohl's drumming but I like Chad's had something drunken about it like Grohl once said

I did not know that Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman used to play with Kurt Cobain.

Chad seems a lovely guy and played great on Bleach. Dave gave him a name check and credit at the Nirvana induction at the RNR Hall Of Fame. Nirvana wouldn't have become the band they became without Grohl.

He aged so adorably! ❤❤❤

I got goosebumps @ 1:55

What's Channing doing now? I hear the Foo Fighters are looking for a new drummer, now that Taylor H. is no longer with us.

Dave may have had the bombastic style for a hard rock sound but Chad's drum parts were very creative

My father works at a Safeway here in Washington and he'll see Chad and talk to him every now and then. Me and my dad were talking about it one day if he should ask Chad whether or not he thought Kurt really did end his own life or if he was murdered. I told him that he shouldn't. Cause either way he's still dead and it's really just beating at a dead horse.

I feel Chad fit into the bad soooooooo much better character wise. He was just as gentle as Kurt and it feels like he was probably also an outcast in high school. I really like his calm energy. Dave is more of the sunny boy popular kid. Nothing wrong with that but yeah, … Less of a fit personality wise

Dave made famous from chads drum parts on nevermind ...to me chads drumming is real grunge/punk and he should have been in the hall of fame just a shame!!!

Dude Chad Channing is an underrated drummer his drumming on the Bleach album fits it really well

Jim Carrey was in Nirvana??

I hope Chad got his right share of royalties off Bleach... and some off Nevermind(?)

I feel validated for how many times I say ‘you know’

Chad looks like someone’s wholesome 65 year old mother now.

So Jim Carrey joined Nirvana first before he became an actor?

Chad was great but Kurt knew he needed Dave to make it.

Jim carry ex Nirvana drummer, then he got into comedy and movies.🤣. I love all Nirvana songs and drums, so i can play Chads drumming in My mind.

Chad Channing wouldn’t sell out or sell his soul so he got kicked out of the band. They we’re getting ready to make it big and you have to take the oath and Chad wasn’t willing.

Chad looks like Jim Carrey. That’s a good thing! ❤

I sincerely thought this was a SNL skit and that the drummer was Jim Carrey

i wish he had gotten to say goodbye to his friend

love ya chad ur awesome

These guys Destroyed The Hairbands literally overnight we needed him so badly

I was born in 94, wish I could have lived while he was around but I miss him even though he is only a memory now to everyone

Bleach was their best album.

❤️

Jim Carrey is that you..

Good guy.

He looks like Jim Carrey!😳

One wonders if Kurt is still alive with Chad in the band. Not only is the “Butterfly Effect” real, but I think with Chad thru stay more an Indy type band vs what became glam grunge rock. Kurt was the type of musician that was never meant to get big and rich. If he lived check to check, no time for buying kilos of dope and wallowing in his own thoughts.

I always thought it was a personality thing, as nothing wrong with Chad’s drumming, but by the sound of it they got on well.

I love Chad, Bleach was iconic. That said, his mannerisms remind me of Garth from Wayne's World

Many assumed this was a Pete Best situation. Another good dude

.16 damn imagine being that Dave foster guy watching nirvana blow up without you because you got in a fight. I never even knew this

Chad wrote the drums for 5 Nevermind songs and u guys never mention it. Chad wrote in Bloom, Breed, Lithium, Polly, and Stay Away

It's not surprising he thought it might be Kurt. Just weeks earlier there had been reports that Kurt had been rushed to the hospital for a drug overdose. We all thought he might not survive but he did. Around the same time there was the new Nirvana song called I Hate Myself and Want to Die that was included in the Beavis and Butthead album. Then this. It was hugely disappointing but not a surprise.

If you listen to smells like teen spirit, the drums are ultimately a hip hop beat just being played hard and soft. Supposedly Kurt didn't want to be famous but in reality he really tried to be mainstream with Dave's drums and the way he wrote all of his songs to be so catchy. I would have loved to hear Chad on Nevermind.

The pete best of the 90s

I love Bleach. Awesome album.

I hate the grunge scene, but I still respected it as a blues player

No big loss. Many die every day.

Bleach and Insecticide are their best albums imo

Chad was a great drummer but he was too physically small to consistently and powerfully perform against chris and kurt's sonic onslaught which dave did well. Dave was more or less the same as chad in his playing, as he would play chad's original compositions on many songs. Dave was around 6 feet tall and way stronger which would enable him to be more dynamic, powerhouse and loud behind the kit. Sound engineer Butch Vig recalls that when he sat in rehearsals before the nevermind studio sessions took place, he saw that dave's kit did not have any mics. He asked kurt if any mics would be needed, kurt said no, he dont need them, you'll see. When they played dave was so powerful there was sawdust on the drum riser. Chris and kurt recollected once that after they met chad to tell him they were going to get a new drummer and he was out of the band, when the travelled back home, they felt like they had just killed someone. It must have been hard for chad to witness from afar nirvana's success during and post nevermind's release. Rolling stone once said that it must have felt like winning the lottery only to find that you lost the ticket.

Chad gets royalties from 3 cymbal beats on Polly's song

There is only a few Nirvana albums how many drummers can say they were on one and toured with the band Chad can

i wonder if dave has have meet up with him to jam that would be cool if he did.

Bleach is Nirvana's best album in my opinion, not even close.

Even if Kurt didn't like his playing, I liked the grooves Chad created over the few I liked that Dave did with In Utero. Dave's best groove creation was the first FF solo project.

He got fired for no reason, he was really good

without a doubt. bleach is the best album and my number one favorite better than nevermind and in utero. anyway, how many times does chad say "you know" 😂

Chad was the best drummer NIRVANA had!!!! 🏆🏅🥁

Bleach was the real identity of Nirvana for some artistic reason. Though there are some Bleachy songs on the next two albums like In Bloom, Territorial P, Breed, Lounge Act, Serve the Servants, All Apologies, Aneurysm, Milk it and Frances Farmer.

Chad is a positive persona and better drummer than Dave Grohl...Bleach was a heavy album with excellent songs.

Are you the guy who made the huge Nirvana documentary?

Bleach was the best album by far

If I'm correct he went to go either make or join Foo Fighters?

Can anyone give me insight into what about Chad's playing Kurt and Krist felt couldn't evolve naturally into their next era of songwriting after Bleach?

Only cowards commit suicide, especially when they have children. Only the strong get to live. All of the others willingly take their place amongst the dead.

He was too nice and got robbed. But he confirmed Kurt was the big talent, everyone else (including the rock giant Dave) just average. If he was more gifted success would have come eventually

The Pete Best of grunge…

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