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| Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (Photo: Kevin Keating) |
What a fantastic show this past Wednesday night at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View! I don't normally gush over performances, but the Foo Fighters put on one of the best, if not
the best show I've seen this year. Opening act Gary Clark Jr. warmed up the crowd for about 30 minutes with his bluesy guitar rock before letting the band we were all there to see take over for what seemed to be a 'greatest hits' show that lasted nearly 2.5 hours!
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| Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (Photo: Kevin Keating) |
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At one point early into the Foo set, Dave commented to the audience about how extensive their catalog of music is. And that they try extremely hard to play as much of it as possible each night -- which they did -- but they also sprinkled the set with covers including Queen's "Under Pressure", teased the audience with the first bit of Kenny Loggins' "Footloose", and nearly closing the show with an *amazing* cover of Pink Floyd's "In the Flesh" -- which I've included below from the Jimmy Fallon show from a few years ago.
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| Pat Smear / Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters (Photo: Kevin Keating) |
What showed through their entire performance was the fact that the band was having so much fun. Not only with each other, but with the audience as well. Dave's infectious banter with the crowd drew us all in even closer as we bonded with our favorite college cover band. And as Dave belted out screams and fierce riffs, he rotated between taking sips of Coors Light and throwing back a bottle of Champagne while he lounged in his iron guitar throne -- and all while chewing gum!!
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| Nate Mendel / Dave Grohl (Photo: Kevin Keating) |
If you can make it to only one concert this year, be sure you catch the Foo Fighters! You won't be disappointed!
Here's the setlist from the night (from
Setlist.fm):
- All My Life
- Times Like These
- Learn to Fly
- Something From Nothing
- The Pretender
- Big Me (slow version)
- Congregation
- Walk
- Eruption / You Really Got Me / Cinnamon Girl / Another One Bites the Dust / God Save the Queen (Van Halen / The Kinks / Neil Young & Crazy Horse / Queen / Sex Pistols snippets during band intro)
- Cold Day in the Sun
- My Hero
- White Limo
- Arlandria
- Outside
- Breakout
- Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
- Footloose (Kenny Loggins cover) (Snippet)
- These Days
- This Is a Call
- In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)
- Best of You
- Monkey Wrench
- Everlong
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