Classic Rock
Foo Fighters will be AC/DC’s opening act next September
Foo Fighters will take one detour from their “Take Cover” tour to fill in for Pretty Reckless that will be unable to be AC/DC‘s opening act at their show next September 8 at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Dave Grohl and the band are good friends with the Hard Rock band and they are pretty excited.
What Dave Grohl said about Foo Fighters being AC/DC’s opening act for the first time
“I remember it like it was yesterday…. It was AC/DC’s 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. Sure, 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’t 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.”
“Watching 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….and such danger? My mind was blown. Melted. Changed forever. And my heart felt like it might explode with passion and inspiration.
From that night on, the bar was set exceptionally high. If you were a drummer and you didn’t have to change your snare drum between songs from pummeling it to splinters, you weren’t hitting it hard enough.”
He continued:
“If you were a guitarist and you didn’t need oxygen on the side of the stage between solos, you weren’t playing hard enough. If you were a frontman in a band and you weren’t drenched in sweat by the end of the show, you weren’t giving the audience what they deserve (All of these moments can be witnessed in this legendary film). It’s safe to say that If it weren’t 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 shit 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’ll now understand why.”
“All I have ever wanted was to someday live up to the awe inspiring fury of AC/DC, live onstage (an impossible task, by the way). And 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. This is literally a dream come true. So…..if you want blood….you’ve got it. Let there be fucking rock, St Louis. See you September 8th,” he said.
Next AC/DC tour dates
August
- 27 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- 31 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium
September (2026)
- 4 – Notre Dame, IN – Notre Dame Stadium
- 8 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Center
- 12 – Montreal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau
- 16 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium
- 25 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
- 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field
