Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There was a lot of intramural celebrity love to go around — both the self-consciously smarmy kind and the real, earnest thing — as Josh Homme produced an all-star benefit concert for his Sweet Stuff Foundation Wednesday at the Belasco in Los Angeles, with a cast of musical and comedic guests ranging from St.
Vincent and Beck to Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman. A perhaps surprising example of that less hammy, agape love came when Dave Grohl announced he was debuting an all-new, original song he had written in Homme’s honor for the charity event.
Homme and Grohl had engaged in enough preliminary joshing — so to speak — that the sold-out audience was primed to laugh at what would presumably be a sarcastic number.
It was anything but tongue-in-cheek, though, as Grohl busted out what turned out to be an anthem of unabashed brotherly love, making the hardboiled Queens of the Stone Age frontman cry.
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