As they did last year, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin are celebrating Hanukkah with “The Hanukkah Sessions,” a series of covers featuring songs originally by Jewish artists. For yesterday’s installment, the fourth in this year’s batch, the Foo Fighters leader and Foo Fighters producer decided to take on a Van Halen classic, “Jump.”
Grohl wrote while sharing the cover, “Quite possibly the loudest and proudest of hard rocking Jews, @DavidLeeRoth has gone on record crediting his Bar Mitzvah preparation as his earliest vocal training. He became a rockstar the day he became a man: Diamond Dreidel DLR and @VanHalen…with ‘Jump.'”
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With Kurstin on the keyboard and Grohl behind the drums and on vocals, the duo, as they tend to do with these covers, don’t reinvent the wheel here, instead delivering a relatively straightforward rendition of the song that’s close to how the original version sounds.
Ahead of “Jump,” the pair previously covered Lisa Loeb’s “Stay” (for which Grohl wore a dress), The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop,” and Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana.”
As for Foo Fighters, they recently announced a bunch of North American tour dates for 2022 but then had to cancel one of them almost immediately.
Watch Grohl and Kurstin perform “Jump” above.
