Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl Pays Tribute to Steve Albini with ‘My Hero’ Performance at North Carolina Concert

Dave Grohl is bearing in mind late engineer/producer and noise-rock leader Steve Albini.

During the rock band’s show in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday (May 9), the Foo Fighters frontman devoted the team’s hit tune “My Hero” to Albini, that passed away previously in the week at age 61.

“Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much too soon,” Grohl told the group. “He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. Talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. So let’s sing this one for him.”

Grohl initially dealt with the Chicago- based engineer/producer when recording Nirvana‘s 1993 album, In Utero. The pair reunited in 2014 for Grohl’ s HBO collectionSonic Highways During the episode, the Foo Fighters videotaped the tune “Something From Nothing” at Albini’s Electric Audio Recordings workshop inChicago

Last year, Grohl, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and Albini additionally took a seat for a meeting on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast to go over the production ofIn Utero

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Following his fatality from an abrupt cardiac arrest, many musicians commemorated Albini, consisting of the Pixies, PJ Harvey, Failure, the Breeders, Urge Overkill, Jarvis Cocker, Superchunk and Butch Vig.

In enhancement to In Utero, Albini– that fronted the bands Shellac and Big Black– additionally dealt with the Pixies’ precious 1988 cd, Surfer Rosa, together with jobs by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Flogging Molly, the Breeders, Newsom, the Stooges, and several others.

His band, Shellac, was getting ready to launch its very first cd in a years, To All Trains, and had actually scheduled a collection of programs in England in June, complied with by a run of united state days in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles in July.

Watch Foo Fighters’ homage to Albini here.

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