{"id":619220,"date":"2026-10-03T07:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619220\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:20:10","slug":"dave-grohl-lives-out-boyhood-dream-by-joining-ac-dc-for-highway-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619220\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl Lives Out Boyhood Dream by Joining AC\/DC for &#8220;Highway to Hell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/dave-grohl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dave Grohl<\/a> lived out a dream more than four decades in the making on Friday night when he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/acdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AC\/DC<\/a> on stage at MetLife Stadium for a performance of \u201cHighway to Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grohl\u2019s Foo Fighters served as surprise openers for the evening, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/foo-fighters-open-for-ac-dc-one-night-only\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">second time<\/a> they\u2019ve filled that role during AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cPWR UP\u201d tour. During Foo\u2019s set, Grohl reflected on seeing AC\/DC\u2019s Let There Be Rock concert film when he was 11 years old and how the experience changed his life. \u201cAt 11 years old, I didn\u2019t know that rock and roll could be like that. I didn\u2019t know that rock and roll was sweat, and blood, and fucking tears, and every ounce of energy you have \u2014 Phil Rudd breaking snare drums and Angus sucking oxygen on the side of the stage,\u201d Grohl recalled. \u201cI saw that movie when I was 11 years old, and I was like, \u2018I wanna do that for the rest of my fucking life.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl lived out a dream more than four decades in the making on Friday night when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-619220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}