David Letterman and the Foo Fighters have a long history, so it was no surprise when the late night kingpin invited Dave Grohl and company to spend a week on the show to promote their new album Sonic Highways, out Nov. 3. Friday marked the final night of the residency, which included the band looking back with a Top 10 list.
"The Foo Fighters have been with us each and every night, and each and every night, it's been a tremendous musical experiment ... experience ... and an experiment," Letterman said.
To celebrate the end, Grohl and his bandmates presented "The Top 10 Things Foo Fighters Would Like to Say After Spending a Week at the Late Show."
It began with a gem from drummer Taylor Hawkins: "We agreed to be here because we thought Dave was dying," and featured some genuinely funny moments. Check it out:
The band's new HBO series, also named Sonic Highways, made its debut last night to mixed reviews. A rock doc featuring a different city and studio in each episode, SH's first episode took place in Chicago.
Variety notes that next week's episode, in Grohl's hometown, will be more interesting:
"Grohl's subjectivity proves more valuable in the series' far superior second episode, set in his hometown of Washington, D.C. Not only does this hour see some real personal passion from our humble narrator, it also has the advantage of focusing on two roughly contemporaneous, thoroughly local scenes: the go-go music of Chuck Brown and Trouble Funk, and the hardcore punk of the Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Embracing a more limited scope, Grohl dwells on the details and allows the dialogues to dig much deeper."
That will air Friday at 11 p.m., as the eight-part series continues into December.
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