Baby Huey and Chasta give you the best stories you missed over the weekend and catch you up on all your need-to-know rock news. This past weekend Dave Grohl found himself lost is a sea of Lana Del Rey fans, Dave paid tribute on stage to his recently decided friend Chris Cornell and Green Day drops a new music video before their song Too Dumb to Die.
While trying to retrieve an Imagine Dragons vinyl for his daughter over the weekend Dave Grohl found himself unexpectedly in middle of a Lana Del Rey performance at Hollywood’s Amoeba Music. Lana was performing to a crowd of her young fans who he reported to be annoyed with his presence. Dave recounted in a recent Rolling Stones article:
But to a store full of teenage Lana Del Rey fans, Grohl is just a long-haired middle-age guy who’s in their way. As he works through the crowd, one young woman looks particularly vexed. “Is the store still open?” she asks him pointedly. “They told us it was going to be shut for the next hour.”
Grohl looks contrite. “I’m just getting my daughter an Imagine Dragons record,” he says.
The girl narrows her eyes. “You should buy her a Lana record,” she says.
Grohl smiles and holds up his LP. “I got her AC/DC?”
Over the weekend Green Day released a new music video for their song Too Dumb to Die that reminded Baby Huey a lot of their old aesthetic. This song was originally released on their album Revolution Radio that came out on October 7, 2016. According to Kerrang!:
It’s the work of director, illustrator and animator Joseba Elorza, aka MiraRuido. The Spanish artist has previously created videos for Air Review and The Ones You Loved, but something tells us this is going to introduce his singular style to a rather larger audience.
On Sunday Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters was photographed kneeling in front of drummer Taylor Hawkins’ kick drum which had a custom Chris Cornell drum head on display for the whole audience to enjoy. This tribute to their late friend left Grohl emotional as he took a moment to remember him on stage. Recently Rolling Stones sat down with Dace and talked to him extensively about how Cornell’s death has effected him:
I ask if there was anyone they tried to book and couldn’t. Grohl falls uncommonly silent. “You know,” he says after several seconds. “We wanted to have Soundgarden. They had agreed to do it. And, um …” His voice catches. “It didn’t happen.”
Chris Cornell had been a friend of Grohl’s since their Seattle grunge days. “I loved him,” Grohl says, voice breaking. “He was a really sweet guy. Full of life. And he had so much to offer. That one hurt,” he says through tears. “Over the years you sort of count your blessings that you survived, and when you see another one go down …”
The nature of Cornell’s death dredged up particularly painful memories for Grohl, who knows what it means to lose a bandmate to suicide. “I felt for his family,” he says. “And I felt for his …” He chokes up again. “And I felt for his band, you know? Because that’s a long road, man.”