Foo Fighters Perform Stiff Competition On Letterman With Rick Nielsen
Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Foo Fighters Perform Stiff Competition On Letterman With Rick Nielsen

by Paul Cashmere on October 17, 2014

in News

Foo Fighters continued their Letterman residency with a little help from Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen this week.

Foo Fighters and Rick Nielsen performed the Cheap Trick song ‘Stiff Competition’

“You can spend the rest of your life driving up and down Broadway. You are never going to find anything this great,” David Letterman said after the performance.

Rick Nielsen has contributed to the new Foo Fighters album. He features on the new single ‘Something From Nothing’, released globally today.

Foo Fighters have also performed with Zac Brown, Heart and Tony Joe White on the Letterman show this week.

Watch Foo Fighters and Rick Nielsen – Stiff Competition

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