Dave Grohl is remembering late engineer/producer and sound-rock pioneer Steve Albini.

Throughout the rock band’s concert in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday (May effectively 9), the Foo Fighters frontman devoted the group’s strike music “My Hero” to Albini, who died prior to in the 7 days at age 61.

“Tonight, I’d like to devote this song to a close friend we missing the other day, who I have identified for a extended, extensive time. And he left us much also shortly,” Grohl instructed the crowd. “He’s touched all of your life, I’m guaranteed. Chatting about Steve Albini. For individuals of you who know, you know. For those people of you who never know, just try to remember that name: Steve Albini. So let us sing this 1 for him.”

Grohl to start off with labored with the Chicago-primarily based engineer/producer when recording Nirvana‘s 1993 album, In Utero. The pair reunited in 2014 for Grohl’s HBO series Sonic Highways. All via the episode, the Foo Fighters recorded the song “Something From Nothing” at Albini’s Electric Audio Recordings studio in Chicago.

Past 12 months, Grohl, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and Albini also sat down for an job interview on the Conan O’Brien Requires a Mate podcast to concentrate on the generating of In Utero.

Subsequent his death from a sudden coronary heart assault, a lot of artists paid out tribute to Albini, like the Pixies, PJ Harvey, Failure, the Breeders, Urge Overkill, Jarvis Cocker, Superchunk and Butch Vig.

In addition to In Utero, Albini — who fronted the bands Shellac and Massive Black — also labored on the Pixies’ beloved 1988 album, Surfer Rosa, alongside with tasks by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Flogging Molly, the Breeders, Newsom, the Stooges, and a lot of other people.

His band, Shellac, was gearing up to launch its 1st album in a 10 years, To All Trains, and seasoned booked a collection of demonstrates in England in June, followed by a run of U.S. dates in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles in July.

View Foo Fighters’ tribute to Albini suitable right here.