The Foo Fighters will be hosting a second tribute concert for their late drummer Taylor Hawkins this coming Tuesday, September 27th at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. They will have quite the challenge in attempting to top the epic, 6-hour London-based event that took place earlier this month at Wembley Stadium. That concert included reunions of the James Gang, The Pretenders, and Them Crooked Vultures, along with performances from members of Van Halen, AC/DC, Queen, Oasis, The Police and - most importantly for Rush fans - Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Alex and Geddy took the stage about half-way into the show, and played 2112: Overture and Working Man with Dave Grohl on drums, then finished off with YYZ with Omar Hakim on the sticks. The entire show was streamed live worldwide on Paramount+ (US only), MTV YouTube channels (Globally), and Pluto TV internationally, and a heavily truncated, 1-hour TV special edit of the show aired on CBS the evening after the show, but Rush's performance was not included. Although the official video links have been removed, the entire show can currently be found on the Internet Archive here, and John over at Cygnus-X1.net posted a bunch of screenshots of Rush's performance and made them available online at this location. Both Geddy and Alex posted some reflections on the concert to their Instagram pages last week, with Geddy saying the following:
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