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Dave Grohl Trips Onstage at Foo Fighters Show: “I Almost Broke My Fucking Leg”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: (EDITORS NOTE: Images not to be used for third party commercial promotional use.) Foo Fighters perform on stage during the iHeartRadio Foo FAnthem Show at The Anthem on October 11 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Grohl, my man, be careful! At a Foo Fighters show in Florida last week, Dave Grohl stumbled during some tension-building rock’n’roll stage business. In the buildup to a song, he duckwalked and tiptoed around, picking slyly on his wireless guitar and mugging for the audience. Unfortunately, at one point, he got to close to a monitor and tripped, causing his guitar to land on the monitor and make a big silly open-string noise.

He recovered quickly. Back at the mic, he observed, pausing dramatically for effect: “I almost broke my fucking leg over there. Here’s the way I look at it, when you get that close to breaking your fucking leg, that means it’s a great show.” As if reminding the crowd of past heroism at a 2015 show in Sweden, Grohl continued: “And say I did break my fucking leg…do you think I’d fucking go home? You think this show would be over?” The crowd bellowed in the negative. “That’s right, motherfuckers!” Grohl, clearly a huge hero, countered.

Watch footage below.