- The 55-year-old rocker, during a Foo Fighters concert on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina, addressed the crowd before performing the 1998 classic.
- ‘Tonight I would like to dedicate this song to a friend who we lost the other day and who I have known for a long, long time. And he left us too soon,” Grohl said.
- Albini died on May 7 at age 61 of a heart attack in Chicago.
Dave Grohl paid tribute to the late Steve Albini at a recent concert with a performance of My Hero.
The 55-year-old rocker, during a Foo Fighters concert on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina, addressed the crowd before performing the 1998 classic.
‘Tonight I would like to dedicate this song to a friend who we lost the other day and who I have known for a long, long time. And he left us too soon,” Grohl said in a fan video posted to YouTube.
I’m sure it has touched all of your lives. Speaking of Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you already know. For those who don’t know, remember that name: Steve Albini. So let’s sing this one for him,” Grohl added.
Albini died on May 7 at age 61 of a heart attack in Chicago.
Dave Grohl, performing in New York City in March, paid tribute to the late Steve Albini in a recent concert with a performance of My Hero.
The Chicago-based sound engineer recorded Nirvana’s third and final album, In Utero, which was released in 1993.
Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana, which also included bassist Krist Novoselic and late frontman Kurt Cobain.
Albini and Grohl reunited for the premiere episode of Grohl’s 2014 HBO mini-docuseries Sonic Highways. The series’ Foo Fighters recorded their song Something From Nothing at Albini’s Electric Audio Recordings studio in Chicago.
In Utero reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart.
Albini as a sound engineer also collaborated with the Pixies, the Breeders, PJ Harvey and other artists.
He also founded the punk band Big Black and formed the Chicago-based trio Shellac in 1992.
Shellac was about to release a new album and was preparing to tour at the time of Albini’s death.
Despite his success in the recording studio, Albini’s later career was also marked by his outspoken criticism of the music industry.
Steve Albini, who appears performing with Shellac in June 2022, died on May 7 at age 61.
Grohl, who appeared performing last month in New Orleans, was Nirvana’s drummer when Albini recorded their third album In Utero.
Albini is shown in 2014 in his recording studio in Chicago
In particular, he took aim at the predatory practices of music executives, arguing that young bands are often lured into exploitative deals early in their careers.
Albini was known for his preference for the term “musical engineer” over producer, and he left his mark on the iconic music of the grunge era, including the recording of Nirvana’s album “In Utero.”
Those who worked with him said he was not afraid to show his displeasure at the music he was producing, and he described the Pixies in 1988 as “four more cows eager to be led by their nose rings.”
Born in California, Albini grew up in Missoula, Montana, with a “normal” childhood that, he says, all changed when a friend introduced him to The Ramones as a teenager.
“It was the first time I felt like there was any part of the culture that represented irreverence and silliness and the kind of mania that my friends and I were displaying,” he recalled. The Guardian.
