Foo Fighters Are Opening for AC/DC Again
Apparently Dave Grohl’s “one night only” with AC/DC needed an encore.
Foo Fighters have been added as the opening act for AC/DC’s rescheduled show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Friday, October 2.
The concert was originally scheduled for September 25 but had to be postponed because of severe weather moving through the East Coast. Now, AC/DC fans holding onto those tickets are getting a pretty serious bonus when the show finally happens.
Foo Fighters will open the night.
It marks the second time in less than a month that Dave Grohl and company have jumped onto an AC/DC bill. Foo Fighters also opened for the rock legends in St. Louis on September 8, a pairing that was initially billed as a special one-night-only appearance.
So much for one night only.
The MetLife date gives fans two generations of arena-sized rock on the same stage, with Foo Fighters warming things up before AC/DC takes over with a catalog packed with staples like “Back in Black,” “Highway to Hell,” “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Thunderstruck.”
According to NME, previously purchased tickets for the postponed September 25 concert will be honored for the new October 2 date.
For Foo Fighters, the appearance adds another major stadium stop to what has already been a busy stretch for the band. For AC/DC fans, it turns a frustrating weather postponement into one heck of a makeup show.
And if Grohl keeps answering the phone every time AC/DC calls, maybe we should stop calling these appearances “one night only.”