Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl dedicated My Hero to the medic who aided with his broken leg in Sweden back in 2015.
Just over four years since Dave Grohl famously tumbled off 12-foot-high stage during a show in Sweden and broke his leg, at Lollapooloza in Stockholm this weekend the Foo Fighters frontman dedicated My Hero to the medic who not only treated him immediately after the fall, but actually ended up holding his leg together for the remainder of the gig.
“There he is, motherfucker, that’s him right there!” Dave pointed out from the stage on June 29 as the band began to run through the 1998 The Colour And The Shape smash single, before eventually calling the doctor up and reuniting for an adorable hug towards the end of the song. Check out a fan-shot video of the brilliant moment below.
This isn't the first time Dave has reminded Swedish fans of what happened back in 2015: just last year at a Foos gig in Gothenburg, the musician hilariously pranked the audience by sending out a lookalike and getting him to also fall off the stage, temporarily tricking fans into thinking that history was repeating itself and he'd broken his leg again.
Aside from Dave and the medic's reunion, Foo Fighters' setlist on the night at Lollapooloza was:
1. All My Life
2. Learn To Fly
3. The Pretender
4. The Sky Is A Neighborhood
5. Times Like These
6. Rope
(Drum solo)
7. Sunday Rain
8. My Hero
9. These Days
10. La Dee Da
11. Walk
12. Been Caught Stealing (Jane’s Addiction cover – with Perry Farrell, and Nick Maybury on guitar)
13. Monkey Wrench
14. Run
15. Wheels (Slow Version)
16. Dirty Water
17. Best Of You
18. Everlong
Of course, Dave's famous leg break did eventually spawn the latest Foo Fighters album, Concrete And Gold, following the extensive, worldwide ‘Broken Leg Tour’.
“When we came home from that last trip, everybody was really exhausted,” Dave reflected to Kerrang! at the time. “And I was still trying to walk. I was still on crutches, and just trying to get my body back in shape, and I was so drained from touring. Usually, at the end of a couple of years of being on the road, you blame the music and the band for all of your problems, so you want to get away from it. And I didn’t want to pick up a guitar. I wasn’t feeling creative, or prolific, or inspired. So I just went back to normal, quiet domestic life.
“After we finished all of that touring, I went through a really weird depressive phase where I got the beard and I had the pyjamas and I didn’t leave the house for weeks,” he continued. “That was at the point that I realised the music wasn’t the thing that was making my life worse – it was actually the thing that always made my life better.”
Foo Fighters will return to the UK next month to headline Reading & Leeds – get your tickets now.
