Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl Pays ‘Tribute’ To Tenacious D In Denver

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has a long history with Tenacious D that includes Grohl playing drums on the duo’s self-titled 2001 debut studio album. Dave Grohl honored Jack Black and Kyle Gass by performing an impromptu partial cover of Tenacious D’s “Tribute” on Saturday at Foo Fighters’ concert in Denver.

Grohl was joined by Foo Fighters multi-instrumentalist Rami Jaffee on accordion at the start of the acoustic segment at Empower Field at Mile Hile. The guitarist began strumming his acoustic and played a progression similar to “Tribute.” After telling the crowd, “you thought I was going to play a Tenacious D song, didn’t you,” Dave and Rami gave “Tribute” a go.

Dave Grohl altered the lyrics to reference himself and Jaffee but eventually gave up. “I don’t actually know that song. I only played drums on that song,” Grohl exclaimed as he aborted the cover.

The “Tribute” came less than a month after Tenacious D canceled all tour dates in the wake of Gass making a controversial joke about the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. “Don’t miss Trump next time,” KG told a crowd at a July concert in Sydney when asked to make a wish for his birthday.

Dave Grohl and Rami Jaffee followed the cover attempt with performances of “Skin & Bones” and “Under You.” The show in Denver featured the biggest audience at any U.S. Foo Fighters concert according to Grohl.

Watch fan-shot video featuring most of Foo Fighters’ Denver show including the “Tribute” below:

Wolfgang Van Halen was Foo Fighters’ special guest in Denver. The son of late guitarist Eddie Van Halen emerged during “Monkey Wrench” to play a snippet of Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher.” Both The Pretenders and Wolfgang’s Mammoth WVH opened on Saturday.

Foo Fighters bring their Everything Or Nothing At All Tour to San Diego on Wednesday. The lengthy excursion ends on August 18 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.