The Foo Fighters rocked Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, with unexpected guest Dave Chappelle.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 20: Fans in the audience react as The Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden on June 20, 2021 in New York City. The concert, with all attendees vaccinated, is the first in a New York arena to be held at full-capacity since March 2020 when the pandemic lead to the closure of live performance venues. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for FF)
It was The Garden’s first concert since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered venues in New York City in March 2020.
The band and frontman Dave Grohl kicked off the show with “Times Like These,” with cheers from the crowd. They launched into “The Pretender” and Grohl stopped multiple times to ask the crowd, “Did you miss it?”
At one point, Chappelle joined the band on stage to sing Radiohead’s “Creep.”
The show was for a vaccinated audience only and was the first 100 percent capacity concert in a New York arena since the start of the pandemic.
“We’ve been waiting for this day for over a year,” Grohl said in a statement.
The Foo Fighters have additional summer concert dates planned for their “25th-26th Anniversary Tour.”
Chappelle also announced two dates with Joe Rogan, September 3 in Nashville and September 4 in New Orleans.
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Dave Grohl performs onstage as The Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
