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 Sessions,” masking “The Spirit of Radio” with greater than a bit of assist from Jack Black.

You can watch video of the efficiency beneath.

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 together with his uncommon however plain 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 Bird 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 Sessions Perform ‘The Spirit of Radio’

Grohl jammed in September with surviving Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts, tearing by “2112 Part I: Overture,” “Working Man” and “YYZ.” “Now if there’s one band that I always associated Taylor Hawkins with, it’s these next two guys,” Grohl stated throughout the primary tribute present at London’s Wembley Stadium. “Taylor got up and played with these two guys once in their hometown of Toronto, Canada – and I have to say, it was not only one of the greatest nights of my life, watching him do that, but perhaps one of the greatest nights of his.”

Lee, who was born Gary Lee Weinrib, instructed Heeb that he considers himself “a Jew as a race, but not so much as a religion. I’m not down with religion at all. I’m a Jewish atheist, if that’s possible. … I celebrate the holidays in the sense that my family gets together for the holidays and I like being a part of that. So I observe the ‘getting together’ aspect.”

Grohl, who isn’t Jewish, stated that doing these exhibits with Kurstin, who’s Jewish, helped him acquire a larger appreciation for the vacation and the worth of spreading pleasure. “This project, which initially began as a silly idea, grew to represent something much more important to me,” Grohl stated on the finish of 2020’s Hanukkah Sessions. “It showed me that the simple gesture of spreading joy and happiness goes a long way, and as we look forward, we should all make an effort to do so, no matter how many candles are left to light on the menorah.”