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“We’re gonna salute a Jewish songwriter we were not expecting to be saluting,” Ira Kaplan told the crowd<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tThere\u2019s been an outpouring of grief<\/a> and tributes following the death of Rob Reiner<\/a> and his wife Michele, who were killed<\/a> in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. Yo La Tengo<\/a> joined those honoring the actor-director <\/a>on Monday during their annual Hanukkah shows.<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tFollowing their cover of the Velvet Underground\u2019s \u201cHeroin,\u201d performed alongside Built to Spill\u2019s Doug Martsch, Ira Kaplan addressed the crowd at New York City\u2019s Bowery Ballroom. \u201cAs if that wasn\u2019t ragged enough, this will be the most ragged one of all,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we\u2019re gonna salute a Jewish songwriter we were not expecting to be saluting this Hanukkah, and we certainly weren\u2019t expecting to be memorializing him. So we\u2019re gonna try to do a song and see how this goes.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tThe band then launched into \u201cGimme Some Money,\u201d from Reiner\u2019s 1984 satirical rock mockumentary\u00a0This Is Spinal<\/em> Tap<\/em><\/a>, his debut film (the fictional band released the hit under their earlier name, the Thamesmen<\/a>). <\/p>\n