***OFFICIAL FOO FIGHTERS THREAD***

jonsey30

I kind of liked the "we don't do encores" thing. They played non-stop for 2.5 hours. But I wouldn't want PJ to do that, because they build so much suspense and atmosphere with songs like RVM, and then can slow it down to open another set. It's a roller coaster of emotions at a PJ show, not just a loud, screaming jumble of decent songs

buck502000

The weather today has a PJ Wrigley vibe to it ......

PJ_Soul

buck502000 said:

The weather today has a PJ Wrigley vibe to it ......

buck502000

But I did meet Taylor Hawkins outside Victoria's Secret in Chicago yesterday.

eeriepadave

Have fun at Wrigley everyone!

Weston1283

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

derbydave

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

Thirty Bills Unpaid

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

That's what they do.

They play a ton of covers for the fun of it. They don't pretend to be an experience where one can be assured of transcendence, they just play music and enjoy doing it.

You're not wrong and I get your preferences, but it is what it is.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

I should have added that they play for 3 hours. Most bands play for 2. Consider the covers bonus material.

derbydave

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

That's what they do.

They play a ton of covers for the fun of it. They don't pretend to be an experience where one can be assured of transcendence, they just play music and enjoy doing it.

You're not wrong and I get your preferences, but it is what it is.

I can see that it's for "FUN"...
and I get that they are doing the whole "Sonic Highway" theme,
and doing songs with a LOCAL relationship,
But when your whole setlist is only 25 or 26 songs,
It just doesn't make sense to me,
for a third of the songs you perform to be covers.
:

ldent42

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

I really liked their under pressure cover. Curious to see that breakdown cover, might have to YouTube it. The thing about covers, and I felt this way at their Citi field show, they can be really great fun if you know and enjoy the original song, but they can also be incredibly deflating if you either don't know or don't care for the original song. As a casual fan, I could go either way.

derbydave

ldent42 said:

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

I really liked their under pressure cover. Curious to see that breakdown cover, might have to YouTube it. The thing about covers, and I felt this way at their Citi field show, they can be really great fun if you know and enjoy the original song, but they can also be incredibly deflating if you either don't know or don't care for the original song. As a casual fan, I could go either way.

I actually heard the Tom Petty "Breakdown" cover when I saw them at Nationwide Arena here in Columbus back in 2011...and they did a good job with it.
They only did 2 covers that night, the other one being a pretty decent version of Pink Floyd's "In The Flesh."
I'm not saying don't do covers...just wondering why you would choose to do so many, when you have a pretty good sizes catalog of original songs that most fans would love to hear.

ldent42

derbydave said:

ldent42 said:

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

I really liked their under pressure cover. Curious to see that breakdown cover, might have to YouTube it. The thing about covers, and I felt this way at their Citi field show, they can be really great fun if you know and enjoy the original song, but they can also be incredibly deflating if you either don't know or don't care for the original song. As a casual fan, I could go either way.

I actually heard the Tom Petty "Breakdown" cover when I saw them at Nationwide Arena here in Columbus back in 2011...and they did a good job with it.
They only did 2 covers that night, the other one being a pretty decent version of Pink Floyd's "In The Flesh."
I'm not saying don't do covers...just wondering why you would choose to do so many, when you have a pretty good sizes catalog of original songs that most fans would love to hear.

Yes for sure. 2-3 is fun. 5-6 is closer to 'you're sick of your own music'

derbydave

ldent42 said:

derbydave said:

ldent42 said:

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

I really liked their under pressure cover. Curious to see that breakdown cover, might have to YouTube it. The thing about covers, and I felt this way at their Citi field show, they can be really great fun if you know and enjoy the original song, but they can also be incredibly deflating if you either don't know or don't care for the original song. As a casual fan, I could go either way.

I actually heard the Tom Petty "Breakdown" cover when I saw them at Nationwide Arena here in Columbus back in 2011...and they did a good job with it.
They only did 2 covers that night, the other one being a pretty decent version of Pink Floyd's "In The Flesh."
I'm not saying don't do covers...just wondering why you would choose to do so many, when you have a pretty good sizes catalog of original songs that most fans would love to hear.

Yes for sure. 2-3 is fun. 5-6 is closer to 'you're sick of your own music'

AND what is 8 or 9!!

Tim Simmons

They really kill a songs momentum by stopping it to get a crowd cheer or to talk to a crowd before going back into it. Happened a couple times like that (Walk is the first one to spring to mind).

PJ-Cubs

Based only on what I saw last night, the Foos are not always playing the entire song when they do a cover. They did pieces of different covers when they were "featuring" each band member last night

derbydave

PJ-Cubs said:

Based only on what I saw last night, the Foos are not always playing the entire song when they do a cover. They did pieces of different covers when they were "featuring" each band member last night

That makes it a little better I guess...
I thought it had something to do with the Sonic Highway theme of the tour!!

Weston1283

Yeah not a huge fan of the covers. And in both shows.... That "solo" during "Outside" killed the crowd like no other

kasedoug

PJ-Cubs said:

Based only on what I saw last night, the Foos are not always playing the entire song when they do a cover. They did pieces of different covers when they were "featuring" each band member last night

This is a good point. I think whoever lists out the set lists online gets a little over zealous trying to catalog every little teaser they're playing when they're doing band introductions. They do play full covers, but not as many that are listed. Love the "Breakdown" cover, especially when I saw them last and they played "Dear Rosemary" into it.

Weston1283 said:

Yeah not a huge fan of the covers. And in both shows.... That "solo" during "Outside" killed the crowd like no other

That's a bummer to hear as "Outside" is my favorite song off Sonic Highways. I was fortunate to see them play it live with Joe Walsh, so that definitely made it really special for me.

Suziemay

ldent42 said:

derbydave said:

Weston1283 said:

Wrigley was fun, but didn't really stand out any more or less than the Pitt show

20 years into their careers, no reason they can't mix up the setlist more. I doubt I would see them more than once on a tour again. Only reason I really even went to Pitt was for Royal Blood

AND why are they playing so many covers??
They played 9 covers in the Detroit show:
I'm the One (Van Halen cover)
I'm Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
Search & Destroy (The Stooges cover)
Detroit Rock City (KISS cover)
Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie cover)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)

From looking at their setlists this tour,
they are averaging 5 or 6 covers per show.
I'd much rather hear some deeper cuts from the band I'm going to see,
than a bunch of cover songs!!

I saw Foo Fighters back in 2011...they were just okay for me.
Don't feel like I ever need to see them again,
AND I certainly wouldn't travel to see them!!

I really liked their under pressure cover. Curious to see that breakdown cover, might have to YouTube it. The thing about covers, and I felt this way at their Citi field show, they can be really great fun if you know and enjoy the original song, but they can also be incredibly deflating if you either don't know or don't care for the original song. As a casual fan, I could go either way.

I enjoyed their Under Pressure cover at Citi Field too, but I think I was one of 5 people on the rail who knew the words