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See Foo Fighters Pull ‘Eruption’ Prank With Wolfgang Van Halen at Welcome to Rockville

Foo Fighters pranked the Welcome to Rockville crowd Saturday, pretending to perform Van Halen classics… only to reveal it was Wolfgang Van Halen.

Dave Grohl enlists Mammoth WVH frontman to deliver classic Van Halen solos during headlining set at Daytona Beach festival The gag occurred during the headlining set’s usual mid-show medley featuring the music of drummer Josh Freese, but midway through, Dave Grohl complained that while all his band mates got their time in the spotlight, “I never get to fucking solo.” Earlier in the week, Grohl dedicated “My Hero” to Steve Albini, who he worked with both on Nirvana’s In Utero and Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways.

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