The Foo Fighters played last June 27 at Villa Park Stadium, which is the home of the football team Aston Villa, which is the team the legendary Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler supports. The stadium is also located in Birmingham, city where Black Sabbath was formed, so the group invited Butler to be part of the show and they performed together the track “Paranoid”.
Before playing the song, the band’s leader, guitarist and vocalist Dave Grohl said: “He’s never seen a concert here. He’s never played a concert here. So we thought, something special for us and hopefully it’s special for him too, we’d invite him out to come play a song with us.”
“Ladies and gentleman, Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath. Let me just say it one more time: Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath! So, why not? Let’s do a song with Geezer? What do you say Chris (Shiflett)?” And obviously, the band started playing “Paranoid”.
Watch Geezer Butler playing “Paranoid” with Foo Fighters in Birmingham:
Next Foo Fighters shows
July
- 03 – Open’er Festival Gdynia, PL
- 05 – Roskilde Roskilde, DK
- 07 – Rock Werchter Werchter, BE
- 17 – Citi Field New York, NY, US (Pretenders, Mammoth WVH – as opening acts)
- 19 – Citi Field New York, NY, US (The Hives, Amyl and The Sniffers – as opening acts)
- 21 – Fenway Park Boston, MA, US (The Hives, Amyl and The Sniffers – as opening acts)
- 23 – Hersheypark Stadium Hershey, PA, US (The Hives, Amyl and The Sniffers – as opening acts)
- 25 – Great American Ball Park Cincinnati, OH, US (Pretenders, Mammoth WVH – as opening acts)
- 28 – Target Field Minneapolis, MN, US (Pretenders, L7 – as opening acts)
August
- 03 – Empower Field at Mile High Denver, CO, US (Pretenders, Mammoth WVH – as opening acts)
- 07 – Petco Park San Diego, CA, US (The Hives, Alex G – as opening acts)
- 09 – BMO Stadium Los Angeles, CA, US (The Hives, Amyl and The Sniffers – as opening acts)
- 11 – BMO Stadium Los Angeles, CA, US (Pretenders, Alex G – as opening acts)
- 13 – Toyota Pavilion at Concord Concord, CA, US
- 16 – Providence Park Portland, OR, US (Pretenders, Alex G – as opening acts)
- 18 – T-Mobile Park Seattle, WA, US (Pretenders, Alex G – as opening acts)
September
- 29 – Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT, US