Weezer’s cowl of Nirvana’s Lithium brings Dave Grohl to tears: Watch

Watching Weezer carry out Saturday night time truly introduced Dave Grohl to tears. Not as a result of the Foo Fighter frontman bought actually nostalgic over “The Sweater Track”, although, however as a result of Rivers Cuomo and co. coated Nirvana’s traditional “Lithium”.

On Saturday night time, Weezer had been taking part in the principle stage at Brazil’s Rock in Rio proper earlier than Foo Fighters’ headlining set. Close to the tip of their present, Cuomo informed the group, “We’re gonna cowl a tune from Dave Grohl’s outdated band to tide you over till the principle course in a couple of minutes.” They then went into an appropriately crunchy rendition of the Nevermind minimize.

When Foo Fighters took the stage afterward, Grohl acknowledged Weezer’s cowl by dedicating “Huge Me” to their fellow rockers. “Tonight I’m gonna dedicate this one to Weezer,” he mentioned, strumming the opening chords of the tune. “I used to be backstage and I heard Weezer play the ‘Lithium’ tune. I gotta be trustworthy, I cried somewhat bit. I did! I miss taking part in that tune. I miss it, so I’m completely satisfied to listen to Weezer play it once more. So this one goes out to the candy Weezer.”

(Learn: Artists Mirror on 25 Years of Weezer’s The Blue Album)

Elsewhere throughout their set, Grohl teased that Foo Fighters had been on the point of start work on a follow-up to 2017’s Concrete and Gold. “We go residence subsequent week and we begin making a brand new Foo Fighters report,” revealed Grohl.

Watch Weezer ship their “Lithium” cowl beneath. You may also get tickets to Weezer’s upcoming tour dates — together with the huge “Hella Mega Tour” with Inexperienced Day and Fall Out Boy — right here. Beneath that, discover video of Grohl’s “Huge Me” dedication to Weezer. Foo Fighters are subsequent set to seem at Intersect Las Vegas, tickets for which will be discovered right here.

Weezer not too long ago introduced a brand new album, Van Weezer, and gave a stay debut to guide single “The Finish of the Recreation” on Kimmel. Van Weezer is due out in Could 2020.

Foo Fighters, in the meantime, have been dropping shock EPs like Dwell at Roswell and 01070725 (which options Arcade Hearth and Lifeless Kennedys covers).