Dave Grohl has shared the seventh instalment in his 2022 Hanukkah Classes collection, that includes Jack Black overlaying Rush.
The Foo Fighters frontman and producer Greg Kurstin started The Hanukkah Classes again in 2020 as a video collection of covers carried out from the latter’s house studio.
This yr, for the primary time, the covers have been recorded in entrance of a reside viewers at LA’s 250-capacity venue Largo. Within the seventh instalment of this yr’s periods, Grohl and Kurstin have been joined by Jack Black to cowl Rush’s ‘The Spirit Of Radio’.
“Geddy Lee’s mom was so happy 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 wrote in a observe that got here with the discharge. “In tribute to that proud Jewish mom, we offer you — freed from cost— ‘The Spirit Of Radio’ that includes Jack Black!” Watch the quilt under now.
The Hanukkah Classes celebrates the music made by Jewish musicians over time and, to date this yr, the collection has seen Judd Apatow assist out on a canopy of Blood, Swear & Tears’ ‘Spinning Wheel’, P!nk be a part of a model of her personal ‘Get The Occasion Began’, and Inara George staff up with Grohl and Kurstin for a tackle 10cc’s ‘The Issues We Do For Love’.
The collection to date 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-Professional’, and Karen O performing Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Heads Will Roll’.
All of the covers have been recorded on December 5, and Grohl and Kurstin performed 9 songs on the occasion with a slew of particular company. All income earned from ticket gross sales have been donated to the Anti-Defamation League.
Nonetheless to return within the collection is a model of Randy Newman’s ‘I Love LA’ (renamed ‘We Love LA’) and the David Lee Roth model of ‘Simply A Gigolo’.
Final yr’s Hanukkah Classes noticed Grohl and Kurstin cowl tracks by Billy Joel, Van Halen, Barry Manilow, Lisa Loeb, The Ramones, Amy Winehouse, The Conflict, and Kiss.
