{"id":574927,"date":"2026-08-20T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574927\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:38:13","slug":"foo-fighters-to-fill-in-for-pretty-reckless-at-ac-dc-st-louis-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574927\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters To Fill In For Pretty Reckless at AC\/DC St. Louis Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Foo Fighters<\/a> just wrapped a run of North American stadium gigs on their Take Cover tour and, in classic Foo fashion, no downtime is good time. So they\u2019ve just agreed to hop onto another massive tour for one night only for a gig that will fulfill a childhood dream for band leader Dave Grohl. The band announced on Thursday (Aug. 20) that they will be special guests at their heroes AC\/DC<\/a>\u2018s Sept. 8 show at the 67,000-capacity The Dome at America\u2019s Center in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThey will be filling in for the Taylor Momsen-led The Pretty Reckless<\/a>, who\u2019ve been opening for the legendary Australian rockers on their current North American stadium tour; at press time a spokesperson for the Pretty Reckless had not returned Billboard\u2018s request for information on why the band is not performing in their previously announced opening slot at the St. Louis stop.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a lengthy Instagram post<\/a> announcing the news, Grohl reminisced about discovering AC\/DC\u2019s primal power and the absolute honor it will be for him to open for his rock Rushmore. \u201cI remember it like it was yesterday\u2026. It was AC\/DC\u2019s 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,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSure, 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\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, describing the impact that movie had on him. \u201cWatching 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\u2026.and such danger? My mind was blown. Melted. Changed forever. And my heart felt like it might explode with passion and inspiration.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom that night on, the bar was set exceptionally high. If you were a drummer and you didn\u2019t have to change your snare drum between songs from pummeling it to splinters, you weren\u2019t hitting it hard enough. If you were a guitarist and you didn\u2019t need oxygen on the side of the stage between solos, you weren\u2019t playing hard enough. If you were a frontman in a band and you weren\u2019t drenched in sweat by the end of the show, you weren\u2019t giving the audience what they deserve (All of these moments can be witnessed in this legendary film). It\u2019s safe to say that If it weren\u2019t 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 s\u2013t 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\u2019ll now understand why. All I have ever wanted was to someday live up to the awe inspiring fury of AD\/DC, live onstage (an impossible task, by the way).\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 45 years after that fateful day, Grohl will finally share the stage with the \u201cThunderstruck\u201d band, and it\u2019s safe to say he\u2019s a bit excited. \u201cAnd 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,\u201d Grohl enthused. \u201cThis is literally a dream come true. So\u2026..if you want blood\u2026.you\u2019ve got it. Let there be f\u2013king rock, St Louis. See you September 8th.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe timing works out for the Dave Grohl-fronted band, as they just wrapped up their own stadium run with an epic, three-hour marathon show in the singer\u2019s childhood area with Monday\u2019s (Aug. 17) gig at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. The road dog rockers have a few days off before their next gig on Saturday (Aug. 22) at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, where they will take part in the first of three special events celebrating Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel on a bill that also includes YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), Eduardo Betancourt, Jorge Glem and Mois\u00e9s Torrealba.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe one-off gig with AC\/DC will take place just days after the Foos headline at Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sept. 4, after which the band will get back to their North American stadium run with a gig at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n


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