Dave Grohl Reveals Answer to Crown Royal Super Bowl Ad Tease

It’s the massive day, and Dave Grohl is likely one of the stars of a Super Bowl business as we speak. Crown Royal just lately launched a teaser video of Grohl sitting behind a studio console counting off a seemingly unrelated listing of things, with the reply supposedly coming with the brand new Crown Royal Super Bowl business. Ahead of the Super Bowl, the spot has now surfaced and now we all know the reply and it is …. Canada.

“Today, let’s thank Canada,” begins Grohl, who then proceeds to thank the nation for giving us legends of music, with pictures of Rush, Joni Mitchell, Oscar Peterson and Celine Dion flashing on the display screen. He then follows with thanks for “heroes of comedy,” as Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short and Seth Rogen seem.

“Thank you Canada for peanut butter, the paint roller, the replay and the battery,” continues Grohl, then itemizing off, “The egg carton, the ironing board, the electric wheelchair” earlier than pulling out a whoopie cushion and giving it a squeeze. “Thank you for hockey, basketball and thank you for football,” he then provides. The spot ends with Grohl then posing with a glass of Crown Royal and a banner dropping for the whiskey firm. Watch the advert in full beneath.

Dave Grohl “Crown Royal” Super Bowl Ad

It needs to be famous that Grohl’s Super Bowl advert wasn’t the one factor that he shot for the corporate or the tip of his promotional exercise for Crown Royal. The Foo Fighters frontman was in Phoenix taking part in a short acoustic set throughout a non-public efficiency on the Crescent Ballroom Friday evening (Feb. 10). During the efficiency, Grohl famous Crown Royal because the sponsor of the profit efficiency, then revealed to the viewers how he was launched to the whiskey.

“If you’re wondering why I’m here. I’ve had a long and fruitful relationship with Crown Royal,” said Grohl. “This goes back a long, long time. I’m talking, like, late ’90s, maybe mid-’90s. We went and we hung out with this band called Pantera a long time [ago.] If you’ve ever had a night with Pantera, you won’t remember it. But Pantera loved the Crown Royal. And they got us hooked on that Crown Royal.”

“It got to the point where we started getting the Crown Royal backstage,” he continued. “Then it got to the point where we started bringing that fucking Crown Royal on the stage with us. Then it got to the point where our audience knew that we loved Crown Royal loved so much, that our fans actually fucking made a cape of the purple bags and sent it to us. So when we were… that record — our fourth record — has the song ‘All My Life‘ and a bunch of shit on it. I was wearing that fucking cape while we were mixing that record. Prized possession.” That video was shared by Pantera and will be seen beneath, whereas Rita Haney, the longtime girlfriend of Dimebag Darrell, was additionally readily available on the present and shared some backstage and efficiency footage.

Other teases main up to the Super Bowl confirmed Grohl working towards alternative ways to say “Thank you,” as soon as once more tying into the spot. There’s additionally an prolonged two-minute spot that is a derivative of the Crown Royal advert that includes Grohl and guitarist Donna Grantis. Grantis, a Canadian, is finest recognized for her guitar work with Prince’s 3rdeyegirl band.

In this promo, Grohl is again behind the studio console with Grantis within the recording sales space. Grohl tells her, “Really really take it to the edge, so your toes are hanging off the cliff and you’re about to fall, but I’ll hold your belt loop. I won’t let you go all the way, but let’s see what you got.”

Grantis then delivers an absolute fuzzed out shredding of Canada’s nationwide anthem, “O Canada,” which elicits a mouthed, “Oh my God” from Grohl. The efficiency will be seen beneath.