La Dee Dah by Foo Fighters

Album: Concrete and Gold (2017)

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"La Dee Da" channels frontman Dave Grohl's feelings when he was a lonely teenage punk-rock kid in suburban Virginia. "It's a portrait of me as a teenager, feeling completely alienated and repressed by the conservative environment of the early to mid-'80s," he told Rolling Stone.
Foo Fighters debuted this song at Iceland's Secret Solstice Festival on June 16, 2017 as well as playing two other new tracks from Concrete and Gold live as a band for the first time – "Run" and "The Sky Is A Neighborhood."
The Kills' Alison Mosshart sings backup on both this song and another Concrete and Gold track, "The Sky Is A Neighborhood."
That's smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz playing the sax.

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