Dave Grohl and Jack Black Cover Rush's 'The Spirit of Radio'

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin paid homage to Rush in the course of the third version of their “Hanukkah Classes,” masking “The Spirit of Radio” with greater than a bit assist from Jack Black.

You may watch video of the efficiency under.

After a fast holiday-themed vocal warmup, Tenacious D frontman Black went full fanboy in the course of the track’s opening instrumental part. He rapidly took over the present along with his uncommon however plain mix of comically over-the-top stage gestures and legitimately highly effective singing.

This 12 months marks the primary periods 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 Hen and the Bee accomplice Inara George and Grohl’s daughter Violet. Judd Apatow hosted the occasion, and proceeds benefited the Anti-Defamation League.

Watch the Hanukkah Classes Carry out ‘The Spirit of Radio’

Grohl jammed in September with surviving Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert events, tearing by “2112 Half I: Overture,” “Working Man” and “YYZ.” “Now if there’s one band that I all the time related Taylor Hawkins with, it is these subsequent two guys,” Grohl mentioned throughout the primary tribute present at London’s Wembley Stadium. “Taylor acquired up and performed with these two guys as soon as of their hometown of Toronto, Canada – and I’ve to say, it was not solely one of many best nights of my life, watching him try this, however maybe one of many best nights of his.”

Lee, who was born Gary Lee Weinrib, informed Heeb that he considers himself “a Jew as a race, however not a lot as a faith. I am not down with faith in any respect. I am a Jewish atheist, if that is doable. … I have fun the vacations within the sense that my household will get collectively for the vacations and I like being part of that. So I observe the ‘getting collectively’ side.”

Grohl, who just isn’t Jewish, mentioned that doing these exhibits with Kurstin, who’s Jewish, helped him achieve a larger appreciation for the vacation and the worth of spreading pleasure. “This challenge, which initially started as a foolish thought, grew to symbolize one thing rather more necessary to me,” Grohl mentioned on the finish of 2020’s Hanukkah Classes. “It confirmed me that the easy gesture of spreading pleasure and happiness goes a good distance, and as we glance ahead, we should always all make an effort to take action, regardless of what number of candles are left to gentle on the menorah.”