Dave Grohl has shared the seventh instalment in his 2022 Hanukkah Sessions sequence, that includes Jack Black overlaying Rush.
The Foo Fighters frontman and producer Greg Kurstin started The Hanukkah Sessions again in 2020 as a video sequence of covers carried out from the latter’s residence studio.
This 12 months, for the primary time, the covers had been recorded in entrance of a dwell viewers at LA’s 250-capacity venue Largo. In the seventh instalment of this 12 months’s classes, Grohl and Kurstin had been joined by Jack Black to cowl Rush’s ‘The Spirit Of Radio’.
“Geddy Lee’s mother was so proud of her son that she put Rush posters up all over their family store and gave away Rush albums to kids who didn’t have money to buy them,” Grohl wrote in a notice that got here with the discharge. “In tribute to that proud Jewish mother, we give you — free of charge— ‘The Spirit Of Radio’ featuring Jack Black!” Watch the duvet under now.
The Hanukkah Sessions celebrates the music made by Jewish musicians over time and, to this point this 12 months, the sequence has seen Judd Apatow assist out on a canopy of Blood, Swear & Tears’ ‘Spinning Wheel’, P!nk be part of a model of her personal ‘Get The Party Started’, and Inara George workforce up with Grohl and Kurstin for a tackle 10cc’s ‘The Things We Do For Love’.
The sequence to this point has been rounded out by Grohl’s daughter Violet becoming a member of her dad on a canopy of Janis Ian’s ‘At Seventeen’, Beck making an look on a rendition of his personal ‘E-Pro’, and Karen O performing Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Heads Will Roll’.
All the covers had been recorded on December 5, and Grohl and Kurstin performed 9 songs on the occasion with a slew of particular friends. All income earned from ticket gross sales had been donated to the Anti-Defamation League.
Still to return within the sequence is a model of Randy Newman’s ‘I Love LA’ (renamed ‘We Love LA’) and the David Lee Roth model of ‘Just A Gigolo’.
Last 12 months’s Hanukkah Sessions noticed Grohl and Kurstin cowl tracks by Billy Joel, Van Halen, Barry Manilow, Lisa Loeb, The Ramones, Amy Winehouse, The Clash, and Kiss.