Heavy rock band L7 formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s and benefited from the early '90s fixation on alternative rock, with attitude-loaded singles like "Pretend We're Dead" and "Andres" grabbing significant radio airplay. The members of L7 and Nirvana frequently ran into each other, as bassist Jennifer Finch's former Sugar Babylon bandmate, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, married Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain. Finch and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl were also a couple for a short while, and it's not something that the L7 bassist looks back on with much fondness.
When L7 decided to record its 1992 album "Bricks Are Heavy," it hired producer Butch Vig. At the time, Vig's last big record, Nirvana's "Nevermind," reached the public. "And it blew up," Finch said in the documentary "L7: Pretend We're Dead." Footage captured in the '90s used in the documentary depicts Finch thumbing through a magazine with all of Nirvana, including Grohl, on its cover. "Everywhere I go, everywhere I turn, I see this f***ing face," Finch said, pointing to the drummer. "Frankly, I'm sick of it."
Finch chooses to leave the past in the past and wouldn't watch the Grohl-heavy Nirvana documentary "Montage of Heck." "I have my own memories of those times, and those memories are at a point where they are fading," Finch told The Big Takeover in 2015. "I don't want someone else's ingrained into my brain."
