Watch Dave Grohl perform a touching new song he wrote about Josh Homme
nme.comDave Grohl performed a new song he wrote about Josh Homme during a solo appearance at a benefit show last night (March 20) – watch the footage below.The Foo Fighters frontman played live as part of the ‘Josh Homme & Friends’ event, which took place at The Belasco in Los Angeles, California.
Held in support of the Sweet Stuff Foundation, the evening also featured performances from the likes of Beck, St. Vincent and The Kills.“When Josh asked me to come out and play tonight, I said, ‘Of course’,” Grohl told the audience. “And then I spent a couple of days trying to figure out like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna play?'”He continued: “My first idea that I had… I was like, ‘You know what?
This shit’s funny – I’m gonna come out and I’m gonna do a fucking Doja Cat song’. And I spent fucking days trying to learn that fucking ‘Bitch, I said what I said‘ [song, ‘Paint The Town Red’].“There are so many lyrics to that song – like maybe more than ‘The Sound Of Silence’, which is a lot!
I woke up at like two o’clock in the morning – I was like, ‘I’m not gonna roll out ‘Everlong’ for the thousandth time’.”Grohl went on to explain that he ended up browsing a playlist of “great acoustic covers” on Spotify before deciding to “write something” new.“So I did something that’s maybe considered really, really uncool,” he said. “But I wrote a song that’s really genuine and earnest about my friend Josh.“We’re all here for this one big reason, but I don’t know if we’d all be here if it weren’t for that guy.
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