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Dave Grohl Debuts a Bro Love Song He Wrote for Josh Homme at L.A. Benefit, With Beck, St. Vincent and Bill Burr Among Guest Stars
A Josh Homme-hosted benefit at L.A.'s Belasco included a new Dave Grohl song plus performances by Beck, St. Vincent. Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman.
There was a lot of intramural celebrity love to go around — both the self-consciously smarmy kind and the real, earnest thing — as Josh Homme produced an all-star benefit concert for his Sweet Stuff Foundation Wednesday at the Belasco in Los Angeles, with a cast of musical and comedic guests ranging from St. Vincent and Beck to Bill Burr and Sarah Silverman. Burr then emerged to take Grohl’s place at one of the kits, joining the house band (which also included members of Arctic Monkeys and Queens of the Stone Age) in backing singer Patty Smyth, her guitar-playing husband, tennis legend Bill McEnroe, and their daughter Ruby on a pair of Go-Go’s classics. Most of the musical guests had been asked to sing covers, and for her moment, playing acoustic guitar alone on a stool, St. Vincent offered a languorous reading of the Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson classic “Crazy,” saying “it’s a song that I learned at the small Lithuanian fishing village where I grew up.” (That was a callback to the incongruous introduction she was given by Homme’s announcer for the evening, “Price is Right” stalwart George Gray.)
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