Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have launched the eighth instalment on this 12 months’s Hanukkah Classes sequence, masking Randy Newman’s ‘I Love L.A.’ – retitled right here to ‘We Love L.A.’ – alongside the entire particular friends the pair have been joined by to this point: Judd Apatow, Pink, Inara George, Grohl’s daughter Violet, Beck, Karen O and Tenacious D.
Returning final week for its third annual sequence, this 12 months’s Hanukkah Classes was the primary that Grohl and Kurstin recorded stay in live performance: on December 5, they carried out a secret present to 250 followers in Los Angeles, with the entire earnings earned from ticket gross sales going to the Anti-Defamation League. The Foo Fighters chief and legendary producer performed 9 songs in whole, ending their major set with the star-studded rendition of ‘We Love L.A.’.
Coinciding with Hanukkah itself, this 12 months’s sequence started on December 18 with their rendition of ‘Spinning Wheel’ by Blood, Sweat & Tears (that includes comic/director Judd Apatow). It was chased up with assume tackle ‘Get This Get together Began’ by Pink (that includes Pink herself), adopted by ‘The Issues We Do For Love’ by 10cc (with Kurstin’s The Chicken And The Bee bandmate Inara George).
From there, they delivered covers of ‘At Seventeen’ by Janis Ian (that includes Grohl’s daughter Violet), ‘E-Professional’ by Beck (with Beck himself), ‘Heads Will Roll’ by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (with Karen O) and ‘The Spirit Of Radio’ by Rush (with each members of Tenacious D, Jack Black and Kyle Glass).
Take a look at their tackle Randy Newman’s 1983 basic under:
The 2022 version of Hanukkah Classes will come to an finish tomorrow (December 27), when Grohl and Kurstin launch their cowl of David Lee Roth‘s ‘Simply A Gigolo’, once more that includes Beck.
Launched to rejoice songs by Jewish musicians, the primary sequence was drip-fed over the Hanukkah season of 2020. Recorded by the pair in Kurstin’s house studio, it noticed him and Grohl group as much as cowl songs by Drake, the Beastie Boys, Peaches, Bob Dylan, Mountain, Elastica, The Knack and The Velvet Underground.
The sequence returned final 12 months, with Grohl and Kurstin masking tracks from Billy Joel, Van Halen, Barry Manilow, Lisa Loeb, the Ramones, Amy Winehouse, The Conflict and KISS. Although initially launched on YouTube, each sequence had been made accessible on streaming platforms final December.
