Foo Fighters To Open For AC/DC In St. Louis

Two of rock’s biggest acts will collide in St. Louis on September 8, when Foo Fighters open for AC/DC at The Dome at America’s Center. Foo Fighters have stepped up to take the support role held by The Pretty Reckless at all other dates of AC/DC’s North American tour.

AC/DC announced the one-off pairing this morning on social media. “Foo Fighters are taking a special one-off detour from their Take Cover Global Stadium Tour to fill in for their friends The Pretty Reckless as special guests of AC/DC for one night only in St. Louis,” the message began. “The performance brings two generations of rock’s biggest live acts together for a one-night-only event, with the Foo Fighters opening for the band’s St. Louis tour stop.”

Dave Grohl and company were previously scheduled to have the week off between an appearance at Rock In Rio on September 4 and the resumption of their North American tour on September 12 in Fargo, North Dakota. Foo Fighters end the current leg of the run on Saturday, August 22 with a special orchestral performance at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

Grohl shared a note about performing with AC/DC, which he called a “dream come true”:

I remember it like it was yesterday….

It was AC/DC’s 1980 concert film “ Let There Be Rock” that truly introduced me to the raw, primal power of rock and roll performance for the first time. Sure, I had Beatles records, I had Kiss posters, I had an old, broken acoustic guitar with a few strings that I would pretend to play in front of the hallway closet mirror when no one was home, but it wasn’t until that fateful night at the tender age of eleven years old that my best friend, Larry Hinkle and I went downtown to the Uptown theater in Washington D.C. and actually witnessed it on full display.

Watching from the edge of my seat the entire time, it was like nothing I had ever experienced before. How could five human beings conjure and possess such intensity onstage with just their instruments, and do so with such swagger, such groove….and such danger? My mind was blown. Melted. Changed forever. And my heart felt like it might explode with passion and inspiration.

From that night on, the bar was set exceptionally high. If you were a drummer and you didn’t have to change your snare drum between songs from pummeling it to splinters, you weren’t hitting it hard enough. If you were a guitarist and you didn’t need oxygen on the side of the stage between solos, you weren’t playing hard enough. If you were a frontman in a band and you weren’t drenched in sweat by the end of the show, you weren’t giving the audience what they deserve (All of these moments can be witnessed in this legendary film)

It’s safe to say that If it weren’t for this movie, this band, and their decades of timeless anthems, I surely would have approached my life in music from a different perspective. So, if you have ever seen me beat the living shit out of a drum set, or run from side to side of a stage drenched in sweat after hours of hammering my guitar to pieces, you’ll now understand why. All I have ever wanted was to someday live up to the awe inspiring fury of AC/DC, live onstage (an impossible task, by the way)

And now, for the first time since that fateful night in 1980, my band Foo Fighters will share a stage with the gentlemen who are single handedly responsible for my determination to give every audience everything I have, every night. This is literally a dream come true. So…..if you want blood….you’ve got it.

Let there be fucking rock, St Louis. See you September 8th.

Dave

AC/DC have been bringing their Power Up Tour to stadiums across North America since July 11. The trek continues through a concert in Philadelphia on September 29.

Tickets for AC/DC’s concert in St. Louis with Foo Fighters are still available.