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

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

You possibly can watch video of the efficiency under.

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

This 12 months marks the primary periods to happen in entrance of a stay 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 Hen and the Bee associate 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 Live shows, tearing via “2112 Half I: Overture,” “Working Man” and “YYZ.” “Now if there’s one band that I all the time related Taylor Hawkins with, it is these subsequent two guys,” Grohl stated throughout the primary tribute present at London’s Wembley Stadium. “Taylor bought 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 try this, however maybe one of many biggest nights of his.”

Lee, who was born Gary Lee Weinrib, instructed 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 doable. … I rejoice 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’ side.”

Grohl, who just isn’t Jewish, stated that doing these reveals with Kurstin, who’s Jewish, helped him acquire a better appreciation for the vacation and the worth of spreading pleasure. “This undertaking, which initially started as a foolish concept, grew to symbolize one thing way more necessary to me,” Grohl stated on the finish of 2020’s Hanukkah Periods. “It confirmed me that the easy gesture of spreading pleasure and happiness goes a good distance, and as we glance ahead, we must always all make an effort to take action, regardless of what number of candles are left to gentle on the menorah.”