The Foo Fighters have capped off a big week with one final performance on the Late Show With David Letterman and a secret gig at Chicago’s Cubby Bear, the venue where Foo’s frontman Dave Grohl saw his very first gig in 1983.
Finishing up their week-long residency on the Letterman, the Foos performed new single Something From Nothing and took part in a special Fooified Top Ten. We don’t want to give it all away but revelations from the Top Ten included a steamy love affair between Foo guitarist Pat Smear and show announcer Alan Kalter.
Moving from New York to Chicago, the Foos performed a secret gig at Cubby Bear that was streamed live immediately after the first episode of the band’s premiered HBO doco’s series Sonic Highways aired in the US.
Consequence Of Sound reports, the Foos enlisted the help of Naked Raygun’s frontman Jeff Pezzati, the very band Grohl saw play in ’83, to cover Raygun’s tune Surf Combat in what Grohl described as “the weirdest night of my life”.
Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen also joined the Foos onstage to cover his band’s tracks Surrender and Stiff Competition, in a set that featured plenty of Foo hits and deep cuts, and the first onstage live performance of Something From Nothing.
Then, of course, the inevitable curfew. According to CoS, as 1:00am rolled around, Grohl could be heard repeatedly shouting, “Fuck that clock.”
It’s been a bonza week for Grohl and co. who also dropped clues for a 2015 Australian tour and, somehow, also found the time to drop 10K at a strip club.
You can check out highlights from Foo Fighters’ Cubby Bear set and their final night performance and Top Top on Letterman below.
Watch: Foo Fighters ‘Top Ten’ Late Show With David Letterman
http://youtu.be/a_2oR97KQBc
Foo Fighters – Something From Nothing – Late Show With David Letterman
http://youtu.be/Hf26GuL3yyI
Foo Fighters – Rope (Live at Cubby Bear)
Foo Fighters – Stiff Competition (Cheap Trick cover w/ Rick Neilsen) (Live at Cubby Bear)
Foo Fighters – Wheels (Live at Cubby Bear)
Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly (Live at Cubby Bear)
http://youtu.be/CNDkKK4igFo
Foo Fighters – The Pretender (Live at Cubby Bear)
Foo Fighters – Everlong (Live at Cubby Bear)
Foo Fighters’ Cubby Bear Setlist
All My Life
I’ll Stick Around
Rope
Up in Arms (Dedicated to Steve Albini)
Big Me
White Limo
Arlandria
My Hero
Stiff Competition (Cheap Trick cover) (with Rick Nielsen)
Cold Day in the Sun
Miss You (The Rolling Stones cover)
Generator
Wheels
Learn to Fly
This Is a Call
The Pretender
Best of You
Surf Combat (Naked Raygun cover) (with Jeff Pezzati)
Weenie Beenie
Surrender (Cheap Trick cover) (with Rick Nielsen)
Something From Nothing (with Rick Nielsen)
Everlong
