Longtime Grohl buddy Beck came up next, blasting his way through his own “E-Pro,” leading the audience through the iconic “na-na, na-na-na-na-na” chorus and going for ironic wheedile-deedilie tapping guitar-rocking solos despite having left his pick resting on the strings on the first fret. Grohl’s teenage daughter Violet came next, wielding an acoustic guitar for Janis Ian’s wildly-appropriate “At Seventeen,” in honor of the recently-deceased Brooks Arthur, the song’s producer. restaurant before bringing out the next guest, Inara George - Kurstin’s collaborator in the band the Bird and the Bee - for an audience-abetted version of 10cc’s yacht-rocky “The Things We Do For Love.”
Grohl described he and Kurstin’s meet-up in an L.A. I’m a Jew,” before blasting through her own classic Bar Mitzvah hit “Get This Party Started” - seemingly for the first time in a while, breezily missing a couple of lyrics and using a crib sheet to get by, but living up to Grohl’s description of her as a “badass” with good-naturedness and the stellar, upper-level singing chops that have made her a superstar for a decade. “We’ve gone for the unpredictable,” Grohl promised at the top of the night, and he wasn’t lying: the musical portion of the night started with Apatow showing off a gold tooth gifted to him by Grohl before mugging and singing his way through Blood Sweat & Tears’ “Spinning Wheel,” apparently inspired by a karaoke night in Hawaii with Grohl’s family.īut following Apatow, the night went from silly to stellar: the next guest was Pink, who proudly proclaimed, “My name’s Alicia. This year’s edition - the third in the series, and in this case presented by director Judd Apatow, with profits going towards the Anti-Defamation League - was more of an all-star jam, with cross-generational (and cross-genre-ational) Jewish rockers presenting both their own songs and choice covers, held down with Grohl on drums, Kurstin on keys, and an occasional horn section abetting them throughout the night.
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The event was originally envisioned during the pandemic as a video series of cover songs recorded in Grammy-winning producer Kurstin’s home studio, with each of Hannukah’s eight nights repped by a cover from a well-known artist. On the bill: a slew of headliner-sized names singing songs by Jewish artists.
5) at the tiny, 250-capacity Largo in Los Angeles. That’s nothing compared to the miracle pulled off by Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin at the first-ever live edition of their Hannukah Sessions project, which took place Monday night (Dec.
The Foo Fighters later released the song “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” in honor of the men.The legend of Hannukah is that oil that was supposed to last for one night actually lasted for eight. Several months later, Webb took Grohl up on his offer and the two grabbed a cold one together after the Foo’s concert at the Sydney Opera House. When Grohl heard of the miners’ request, he sent over a personal message to the miners: “Though I’m halfway around the world right now, my heart is with you both, and I want you to know that when you come home, there’s two tickets to any Foos show, anywhere, and two cold beers waiting for you. The trapped miners, Brant Webb and Todd Russell requested an MP3 of the Foo Fighters’ music to keep their spirits up while a rescue mission was underway. Fourteen miners immediately escaped, but one miner was tragically killed and two others were trapped below the surface. In 2006, the Beaconsfield gold mine collapsed in Tasmania, Australia.
Grohl Personally Met One of The Beaconsfield Miners “hey are a little large,” he said, “I’ve had a complex of them since I was 12, and Bobby St Francis, my sister’s friend said he could see my brain through my nostrils.” 4. In a 2000 interview, Grohl revealed that he would get his nostrils “tightened” if he were to get any plastic surgery. Interestingly enough, Grohl is insecure about his nostrils.
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