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Foo Fighters paid tribute to Steve Albini — who worked with Dave Grohl on Nirvana’s In Utero — Thursday night at the band’s concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much too soon,” Grohl told the audience at Foo Fighters’ first concert since Albini’s death Wednesday at the age of 61.
“He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. Talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. So let’s sing this one for him.” The band then launched into a rendition of their hit “My Hero” in honor of the iconic engineer and noise-rock pioneer.
Grohl and Albini first worked together when the latter was recruited to produce and engineer the follow-up to Nevermind, and despite In Utero’s tumultuous journey to release, the two struck up a friendship. “He and I got along really well, because we’re both kind of goofs,” Grohl once said of recording with Albini.
Over two decades later, the pair reunited at Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago, with Foo Fighters recording the track “Something From Nothing” — from their 2014 travelogue album/HBO series Sonic Highways — at the studio. Albini also featured prominently in the Chicago-centric episode:
Grohl is the latest collaborator to pay tribute to Albini following his sudden death from a heart attack earlier this week, joining the likes of PJ Harvey, Failure, Urge Overkill, Superchunk, and Code Orange, as well as friends like Butch Vig and his Big Black bandmate Santiago Durango.
