Watch Foo Fighters Open New DC Venue The Atlantis With A Bad Brains Cover

Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and who had a ton of formative experiences in the DC punk scene. Grohl remains devoted to the city and its music; he was one of the investors who helped open the Black Cat decades ago. Like every other DC punk of a certain age, Grohl has a particular reverence for the Bad Brains, the band that invented hardcore. Grohl brought Bad Brains to a DC stadium stage in 2015, and he put them on TV with his HBO show Sonic Highways. Last night, Grohl and the Foo Fighters opened a new DC venue, and they made sure the first song that anyone played on that stage was a Bad Brains cover.