Grohl and Greg Kurstin honor Geddy Lee and his mom on seventh evening of annual Competition of Lights celebration
Dave Grohl introduced out Jack Black to carry out Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” for the seventh evening of the Foo Fighters frontman and producer Greg Kurstin’s 2022 Hanukkah Periods.
The Hanukkah Periods have fun the music of Jewish artists, like Rush’s Geddy Lee: The bassist’s household had been Holocaust survivors — together with his Poland-born mom who had been at Auschwitz — earlier than shifting to Canada.
“From a really early age, I knew that my mother and father had been Holocaust survivors. The truth is, I knew that the majority my household had been Holocaust survivors,” Lee instructed Grohl in an episode of the latter’s From Cradle to Stage docuseries. “Most survivors don’t focus on it, however I felt fortunate in a method as a result of it wasn’t a thriller in my home.” Lee’s mom Mary Weinrib, who appeared with him on the episode, died in July 2021 on the age of 95.
“Geddy Lee’s mom was so pleased with her son that she put Rush posters up throughout their household retailer and gave away Rush albums to youngsters who didn’t have cash to purchase them,” Grohl and Kurstin wrote within the YouTube caption for the efficiency. “In tribute to that proud Jewish mom, we offer you — freed from cost—’The Spirit Of Radio’ that includes Jack Black!”
Grohl (and the late Taylor Hawkins) had a protracted historical past with Rush, culminating with the Foo Fighters duo inducting the prog-rock wizards into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Grohl even managed to get the surviving members of Rush to reunite post-Neil Peart’s dying for the Hawkins tribute concert events earlier this yr.
The 2022 Hanukkah Periods, like Hanukkah itself, will finish tonight on the eighth evening of the Competition of Lights. This yr’s classes, recorded reside at Los Angeles’ Largo on Dec. 5, have featured Grohl and Kurstin performing Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Heads Will Roll” with Karen O, Beck’s “E-Professional” with Beck himself, Grohl’s daughter Violet protecting Janis Ian’s “At Seventeen” and Inara George performing 10cc’s “The Issues We Do For Love” alongside Tenacious D.
This yr’s classes additionally featured Pink, who sang “Get the Celebration Began” on Night time Two, and Apatow, who belted out the large opening quantity with a canopy of Blood, Sweat and Tears’ “Spinning Wheel.”
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