Dave Grohl and Jack Black Cowl Rush’s ‘The Spirit of Radio’

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin paid homage to Rush in the course of the third version of their “Hanukkah Periods,” overlaying “The Spirit of Radio” with greater than just a little assist from Jack Black.

You may watch video of the efficiency under.

After a fast holiday-themed vocal warmup, Tenacious D frontman Black went full fanboy in the course of the tune’s opening instrumental part. He rapidly took over the present together with his uncommon however simple mix of comically over-the-top stage gestures and legitimately highly effective singing.

This yr marks the primary classes to happen in entrance of a dwell viewers, as Grohl delivered a nine-song covers set at Los Angeles’ Largo nightclub on Dec. 5. He was accompanied all through the night by Foo Fighters producer and multi-instrumentalist Kurstin. The star-studded present additionally featured Beck, Pink, Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O, Kurstin’s Fowl and the Bee companion Inara George and Grohl’s daughter Violet. Judd Apatow hosted the occasion, and proceeds benefited the Anti-Defamation League.

Watch the Hanukkah Periods Carry out ‘The Spirit of Radio’

Grohl jammed in September with surviving Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert events, tearing by means of “2112 Half I: Overture,” “Working Man” and “YYZ.” “Now if there’s one band that I at all times related Taylor Hawkins with, it is these subsequent two guys,” Grohl stated throughout the primary tribute present at London’s Wembley Stadium. “Taylor obtained up and performed with these two guys as soon as of their hometown of Toronto, Canada – and I’ve to say, it was not solely one of many biggest nights of my life, watching him do this, however maybe one of many biggest nights of his.”

Lee, who was born Gary Lee Weinrib, informed Heeb that he considers himself “a Jew as a race, however not a lot as a faith. I am not down with faith in any respect. I am a Jewish atheist, if that is potential. … I have a good time the vacations within the sense that my household will get collectively for the vacations and I like being part of that. So I observe the ‘getting collectively’ facet.”

Grohl, who shouldn’t be Jewish, stated that doing these reveals with Kurstin, who’s Jewish, helped him acquire a higher appreciation for the vacation and the worth of spreading pleasure. “This challenge, which initially started as a foolish concept, grew to signify one thing far more essential to me,” Grohl stated on the finish of 2020’s Hanukkah Periods. “It confirmed me that the straightforward gesture of spreading pleasure and happiness goes a good distance, and as we glance ahead, we should always all make an effort to take action, irrespective of what number of candles are left to gentle on the menorah.”

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