RICK ASTLEY & FOO FIGHTERS RICK ROLL FESTIVAL GOERS
(hennemusic) The Foo Fighters "rickrolled" the audience during their August 20th set at Tokyo's Summer Sonic festival when they were joined by Rick Astley for a grungy version of his 80s hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up", and video of the performance is streaming online.
"We just learned this today," Dave Grohl told the crowd. "This is crazy. I just met [Astley] two minutes ago." According to Rolling Stone, after introducing the pop star singer behind the 1987 hit - which became the punchline in the viral prank "rickrolling" in the internet age - Foo Fighters launched into what sounded like the intro to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
However, it soon became evident that the band were performing the pop smash in the style of the "Nevermind" classic. Astley - who was also appearing at the Summer Sonic event - scored a worldwide number-one hit with the song, which topped the charts in 25 countries and was the best-selling single of 1987.
The Tokyo stop is part of a series of shows in Asia this month for the Foo Fighters, ahead of the September 15 release of their ninth album, "Concrete And Gold."
CHESTER'S WIDOW TALINDA SHARES SON JAIME BENNINGTON'S MUSIC
The late Chester Bennington’s widow, Talinda, has shared music by the couple’s son Jaime.“Our son Jaime is as talented as his dad,” she tweeted, then asked people to tweet her son back if they hear something they like.The piano-driven tracks on Reveries Op. 1 No. 4 range from hopeful and enchanting to melancholy and tragic sounding. The scope and vibe of the piece is akin to a dramatic movie score.Jaime addressed the project on his own website. “Fueled by my love for the incredible Dimitri Shostakovich, of which I have cultivated over the last six months through the systematic consumption of every symphony, brooding string quartet, and whimsical piano solo, I decided to sit down with my piano and have a conversation about what we wanted out of music.”“That conversation ended with the subsequent decision to write music that simply SOUNDED good,” he continued. “I purposely forced myself to stray away from any of the hard-wired academic prejudices that I had the tendency to fall back on.”The son of Linkin Park’s late vocalist added, “These pieces took me far away from any notion of form, harmony, or time that I had so desperately wanted to control. Likewise, what came out of this experiment is something I feel is wholly different from anything I have written before! I would also like to mention that I took a large amount of time to properly record and perform these pieces (to the best of my ability considering the only microphone I own is on my phone). Which makes these compositions the first pieces of music I have devoted myself to interpreting since mid-May.”Listen to Bennington’s composition below and feel free to send him a tweet @fargodidit. CLICK HERE to check out Jaime's pieces.
Source: Radio.com