Foo Fighters and Wolfgang Van Halen prank fans with ‘Eruption’ solo
nme.comFoo Fighters pulled a prank on their fans at Welcome To Rockville with the help of Wolfgang Van Halen – watch footage of the trick below.To close out their trek across the United States, Foo Fighters headlined the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona.
Midway through their set, the band performed a guitar solo, followed by shortened covers of Beastie Boys‘ ‘Sabotage’, Ramones‘ ‘Blitzkrieg Pop’, and Nine Inch Nails‘ ‘March of the Pigs’.Following the segment, frontman Dave Grohl took to the microphone to complain that he’s never given the time or opportunity for his own guitar solo: “You know who never gets a fuckin’ solo?
Me, god damn it, I never get a fucking solo! So, since this is the last night of the trip, I’m gonna do a fucking solo. How about that?
You may think, ‘That guy can’t play a fucking solo.’ You wanna see me do a guitar solo right now?”Grohl then seemingly launched into the tap-solo segment of Van Halen‘s ‘Eruption’.
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