Foo Fighters devoted their efficiency of ‘Everlong’ at Louder Than Life Pageant to Kent Stax, the late drummer of Dave Grohl‘s former band Scream.
“I wouldn’t be right here at the moment if it weren’t for Scream, and the person whose place I took in that band, Mr. Kent Stax,” Grohl stated in the course of the efficiency earlier this week. “The most effective punk rock drummers of all time. He handed the opposite day. So this one’s for Kent.”
It was introduced on Wednesday (September 20) that Stax handed away on the age of 61, following “a bout with metastatic most cancers”, simply in the future after the hardcore band introduced their first new album since 1993. The album, ‘DC Particular’, is ready to function a visitor look from Grohl.
“Kent is the unique heartbeat of Scream,” the band shared in a press release. “Although we’ve got needed to proceed on with out him earlier than, we’ve got at all times recognized Kent is irreplaceable. He was certainly one of a sort. Along with being a very distinctive drummer, Kent was additionally an completed fisherman, expert carpenter, and avid prepare fanatic.”
Try footage of their efficiency beneath:
Stax initially drummed with Scream from 1981 to 1987, after which he was changed by the then-teenage Grohl. Grohl remained within the band till 1990, when he left to affix Nirvana. He has sporadically joined them on-stage over time.
Final weekend, Rick Astley put his personal spin on ‘Everlong’ at a gig in Leicester, describing the observe as “among the finest songs ever”.
The singer was acting at Radio 2 within the Park in Leicester on Saturday (September 17) when he joked that he likes “taking part in different folks’s songs”, asking the gang in the event that they had been “within the temper for us to homicide among the finest songs ever?”.
The ’80s pop icon and his band then launched in a rendition of the Foos’ traditional 1997 track. “Can I get a ‘hell yeah!’, Leicester?” he cheered on the finish of the efficiency.
