{"id":916133,"date":"2026-10-04T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:08:10","slug":"see-bruce-springsteen-cover-neil-young-with-dave-grohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916133\/","title":{"rendered":"See Bruce Springsteen Cover Neil Young With Dave Grohl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Matthews and Tom Morello also join in for “Rockin’ in the Free World” at Maryland festival<\/p>\n

\n\tTom Morello\u2019s Power to the People<\/a> Festival featured an evening\u2019s worth of special performances and surprise collaborations, including Bruce Springteen covering Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Free World\u201d backed by Dave Grohl<\/a>, Dave Matthews<\/a>, and Morello.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpringsteen\u2019s set of protest anthems \u2014 his \u201cStreets of Minneapolis\u201d was the only original he performed \u2014 featured guest appearances throughout, including Joan Baez on a cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cChimes of Freedom\u201d and Matthews and Nathaniel Rateliff on Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s \u201cFortunate Son,\u201d which Springsteen hadn\u2019t performed live since 2009.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter that CCR classic, Springsteen brought out Dave Grohl \u2014 whose Foo Fighters performed earlier in the evening \u2014 to join him for the Young anthem:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe performance marked the first time that Springsteen had played \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Free World\u201d live since 2004, when he sang it alongside Young himself<\/a> (as well as R.E.M. and John Fogerty) at a Vote for Change concert in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThat Vote for Change concert ended with Springsteen leading an all-star rendition of Patti Smith\u2019s \u201cPeople Have the Power\u201d; the Power to the People Festival ended with a similarly star-studded take on John Lennon\u2019s \u201cPower to the People,\u201d the fest\u2019s namesake song, as well as the full ensemble on a lengthy performance of Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSpringsteen\u2019s set wasn\u2019t the only one to feature surprise guests: Jack Black\u2019s Black Sabbath tribute act welcomed Geezer Butler, Public Enemy brought out Anthrax\u2019s Scott Ian for \u201cBring the Noise,\u201d a \u201cSuns of Soundgarden\u201d mini-set, and Morello\u2019s set boasted guests like Serj Tankian, DMC, Cypress Hill\u2019s B-Real, Public Enemy, and Grohl, who performed Kiss\u2019 \u201cRock and Roll All Nite\u201d with Morello:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Matthews and Tom Morello also join in for “Rockin’ in the Free World” at Maryland festival Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,42076,134396,118011,134,136,36702,483759],"class_list":["post-916133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-dave-grohl","tag-dave-matthews","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-neil-young","tag-power-to-the-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}