- The 55-year-old rocker during a Foo Fighters concert on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina , addressed the audience before performing the 1998 classic
- ‘Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much 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 audience before performing the 1998 classic.
‘Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much too soon,’ Grohl said in a fan video posted on YouTube.
‘He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. Talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just 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, shown in March in New York City, paid tribute to the late Steve Albini at a recent concert with a performance of My Hero
The Chicago-based sound engineer recorded Nirvana’s third and final album In Utero that was released in 1993.
Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana, which also included bass player 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 Foo Fighters in the series 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 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, shown performing with Shellac in June 2022, died on May 7 at age 61
Grohl, shown performing last month in New Orleans, was the drummer for Nirvana when Albini recorded their third album In Utero
Albini is shown in 2014 at his recording studio in Chicago
He notably took aim at predatory practices from music executives, arguing that young bands are often lured into exploitative deals early in their careers.
Albini was known for his preference to the term ‘music engineer’ over producer, and left his mark on iconic music from the grunge era – including recording Nirvana’s album ‘In Utero.’
Those that worked with him said he was not afraid to show his distaste at the music he was producing, and he famously described the Pixies in 1988 as ‘four cows more anxious to be led around by their nose rings.’
Born in California, Albini grew up in Missoula, Montana with a ‘normal’ childhood – that he said 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 culture that represented the irreverence and goofiness and kind of mania that my friends and I were displaying,’ he recalled to The Guardian.
