Foo Fighters kicked off their 2024 tour (get tickets here) on Wednesday, May 1st at Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas, Texas, and paid tribute to hometown hero Dimebag Darrell during the show. Fittingly, Dave Grohl dedicated “My Hero” to the late Pantera guitarist.
In fan-filmed video (watch below), Grohl starts playing “My Hero” on guitar and addresses the crowd: “This one’s for everybody. Actually, you know what, since we’re here in Dallas, I’m gonna dedicate this one to an old friend. He lived around here. His name is Dimebag Darrell. How ’bout that? We’ll sing it for Darrell.”
From there, Grohl leads the crowd in a rousing sing-along, as the rest of the band joins in halfway through for an impassioned performance of the classic Foo Fighters hit.
Grohl has spoken of his friendship with Dimebag in the past, even recounting a wild story that about a strip club and a road trip gone bad that involved Dime and his brother Vinnie Paul.
“My Hero” was part of a 24-song, two-hour-and-45-minutes set in Dallas. The show kicked off with “Bridge Burning” and “No Son of Mine” (with a little bit of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”), and featured four songs from the Foos’ latest album, 2023’s But Here We Are.
Of course, the band also played the hits, including “The Pretender,” “All My Life,” “Best of You,” and the show-closer, “Everlong.” Toward the end of the set, Grohl dedicated the song “Aurora” to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
As is tradition for the Foos, the band also played a medley of cover songs that included Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop,” and Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs.”
Foo Fighters’ 2024 tour continues Friday night (May 3rd) with a set at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, and includes a handful more US festival and headlining dates in May. The band will then hit the UK and Europe in June and early July, before returning to the States for a stadium tour this summer. Tickets to the upcoming shows are available here.
Watch select videos from Foo Fighters’ kickoff show in Dallas and see the full setlist and remaining tour dates below.
Setlist:
Bridge Burning
No Son of Mine (with Black Sabbath “Paranoid” riff)
Rescued
The Pretender
Times Like These
La Dee Da
Breakout
Medicine at Midnight
Walk
Guitar Solo / Sabotage / Keyboard Solo / Blitzkrieg Bop / The Outsider / Whip It / March of the Pigs
My Hero (dedicated to Dimebag Darrell)
The Sky Is a Neighborhood
Learn to Fly
Arlandria
These Days
Shame Shame
All My Life
Nothing at All (with ‘Blackbird’ and ‘I’ll Stick Around’ snippets)
The Glass
Monkey Wrench
Aurora (dedicated to Taylor Hawkins)
Best of You
Encore:
The Teacher
Everlong
Foo Fighters’ 2024 Tour Dates:
05/03 – New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz Fest
05/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
05/07 – Raleigh, NC @ Costal Credit Union Music Park ^
05/09 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion ^
05/11 – Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
06/13 – Manchester, UK @ Emirates Old Trafford Stadium *
06/15 – Manchester, UK @ Emirates Old Trafford Stadium !
06/17 – Glasgow, UK @ Hampden Stadium !
06/20 – London, UK @ London Stadium *<
06/22 – London, UK @ London Stadium !@
06/25 – Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium *
06/27 – Birmingham, UK @ Villa Park Stadium !@
06/30 – Clisson, FR @ Hellfest
07/03 – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival
07/05 – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
07/07 – Wechter, BE @ Rock Werchter
07/17 – New York, NY @ Citi Field #()
07/19 – New York, NY @ Citi Field &?
07/21 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park &?
07/23 – Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium &?
07/25 – Cincinnati, OH @ Great American Ball Park #()
07/28 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field #”
08/03 – Denver, CO @ Empower Field #()
08/07 – San Diego, CA @ Petco Park &
08/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium &?
08/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium #
08/13 – Concord, CA @ Toyota Pavilion
08/16 – Portland, OR @ Providence Park #
08/18 – Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park #
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< = w/ Shame
# = w/ The Pretenders
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& = w/ The Hives
? = w/ Amyl and the Sniffers
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