Foo Fighters are a joke

63schoefflin

Dave is one of the last great true rock stars and I am taking it all in while we still have him. That documentary they did for the making of Wasting Light shows you how much they just love making music. One of the absolute best bands to see live as they just tear it up and you can tell care about the audience unlike most bands out there.

I think many people that really love and follow PJ get wrapped up thinking that it's lame or cheesy doing any appearances like the Grammy's that caters to a wide, general audience. Personally I think the Grammy's are a joke but that's just me and if Eddie was out there jamming with Bruce and some other old heads people would be going crazy over it saying how he is the man.

Not trying to rip the OP, just offering my opinion on them as jokes and playing some devil's advocate.

your move now

I've never got them, never been particularly into their music and hence never had a lot of respect for him (grohl) as a musician... this is forgetting about whether he's a hypocrite or a sell out or whatever and talking purely about the music. Never had much time for him as a person either but try not to be too hard on people I've never met and know very little about. I think as I get older (NOT 36 or anywhere near 36 though yet, thankyou very much!) I'm far less judgemental about what sort of crappy music other people like too

pearl_man

B-Rock wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I don't personally understand how Dave can go on and on about rock not being represented at awards shows anymore, and then performing with a dance dj.

seems a bit hypocritical.

EXACTLY!

Even worse is at the Sydney concert he went on a massive rant about electronic music and how much he despised it and how everyone in the audience should too...

completely agree with these 2 posts. he went on the same rant in adelaide too....

Cradles Broken Glass

I have to strongly disagree. FF are one of the last real bands that still get radio play. If it wasn't for the FF, this younger generation would all be listening to Gaga (and other crap like that), they would not know how real music/talent sounds.

Callaway

The Foo Fighters are not a rock band they are a pop act that sings loud. Soccer moms have to listen to something too! More power to them! You can't expect another band to be in Pearl Jam's league. It's just not gonna happen. Bands with Pearl Jam's artistic talent and musical integrity are very very rare. If you look back at the history of music you will find Pearl Jam right beside The Stones, Zeppelin, The Who and The Beatles as the greatest ROCK bands ever. That is where your problem with the foo fighters is arising from, you are comparing them to Pearl Jam. Don't do something like that OP, it's embarrassing.

jackrabbit slim

Callaway wrote:

The Foo Fighters are not a rock band they are a pop act that sings loud. Soccer moms have to listen to something too! More power to them! You can't expect another band to be in Pearl Jam's league. It's just not gonna happen. Bands with Pearl Jam's artistic talent and musical integrity are very very rare. If you look back at the history of music you will find Pearl Jam right beside The Stones, zeppelin and The Beatles as the greatest ROCK bands ever. That is where your problem with the foo fighters is arising from, you are comparing them to Pearl Jam. Don't do something like that OP, it's embarrassing.

wasting light is 100 times better than backspacer

jopetto75

his first two records mayb 3 Dave played everything he is the hardest working musician behind Matt
if he gets on ur nerves great everybody gets on everybody's nerves at times, thats life
but I want to c all the people that say he is no musician to go out and make a album as good as the color and the shape.
Good luck
Go check out skin and bones that might change your mind
if not again ur titled to your own but as a fan of the music and its power u have to give the man
credit!
jerry cantrell said "no drummer should be able to play guitar that well"
i agree
don't judge anyway its bad for the brain
wasting light is not one of my favorites i might add I thought the 2 b4 were better by a long shot but
it is still a great album
just my two cents

your move now

jopetto75 wrote:

his first two records mayb 3 Dave played everything he is the hardest working musician behind Matt
if he gets on ur nerves great everybody gets on everybody's nerves at times, thats life
but I want to c all the people that say he is no musician to go out and make a album as good as the color and the shape.
Good luck
Go check out skin and bones that might change your mind
if not again ur titled to your own but as a fan of the music and its power u have to give the man
credit!
jerry cantrell said "no drummer should be able to play guitar that well"
i agree
don't judge anyway its bad for the brain
wasting light is not one of my favorites i might add I thought the 2 b4 were better by a long shot but
it is still a great album
just my two cents

For my part at least I said I don't like his music, not that he was talentless - surely you can see what the difference is, and you're welcome to love the colour and the shape but you must be able to see that no matter how much people like music the same things are not to everyones taste

ForceofNature101

I can see not liking them but some of the comments (the dead Kurt post in the OP specifically) are IMO just blatantly immature

Foo Fighters are on OUR team - the team that waves the flag for genuine human made rock n' roll. Like their music or not, they are not the band we should be bitching about "integrity" because they are fighting the good fight

I save my music arguments for performers (note: performers, not artists) like Niki Minaj and people like her.

thefin190

I feel like Foo Fighters is the type of band I should like more than I actually do. They seem like a band I'd enjoy on paper, but it doesn't do it for me the way that Pearl Jam does. It's unfortunate that Pearl Jam gets a fraction of the radio time that Foo Fighters do.

That being said, from a purely observational point of view, it does seem hypocritical to be touting being a rock band that plays instruments, and then doing a collaboration with a dubstep DJ.

Paul Andrews

Really, is this what it's come to?

I'm glad that bands like Foo Fighters, Greenday, Offsping, Mudhoney et al are all still going. Sure some of their music is not as good as it once was and some of it is outsanding. But all these guys (and many others) have earned the right to be respected and if they do something you don't like - that's your problem - not theirs.

For the record, I think Wasting Light is a great record and the tour they did to support it blows out of the water, just about every other band I've seen in my 25 year of going to concerts.

your move now

do you really put Mudhoney in that same catagory - at least musically? Aside from PJ atm probably my favourite band whereas I can't stand FF or Greenday (esp Greenday) and have never owned an Offspring Album

Jerome230

Christ almighty. At this point in Dave's career, Kurt isn't even worthy of licking Dave's boots. I've seen Nirvana with and without Dave, and I can honestly attest that without him, Nirvana would have been marginally successful at best (truth hurts) and OP probably would've never known Kurt from Adam. Period. I think Dave fucking Grohl is entitled to play music how he damn well pleases and associate with whomever he damn well pleases. He's paid his dues in spades. Get off his dick.

Paul Andrews

your move now wrote:

do you really put Mudhoney in that same catagory - at least musically? Aside from PJ atm probably my favourite band whereas I can't stand FF or Greenday (esp Greenday) and have never owned an Offspring Album

And to think I actually thought you made the most sense on the thread so far....

Point I was trying to make is that all those bands appeal to different people and there is a crossover of audience. They're all bands I liked in the early 90s and are still going now. I could have added a lot of other bands to that list like You Am I, Crowded House, Metalica, Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More, for instance. I've seen them all play, I liked their shows and I also like the fact they just do what they do and fuck what everyone else thinks. They're free to explore different aspects of their creative side I respect them for it, even if I don't like everything they've done. It seems everyone has 'forgiven' CC for his past 'mistakes' now that Soundgarden are together. I bet in the 90s people would have scoffed at Ed putting out a Uke album or called him a sell out.

At the end of the day, I'd rather see any of the bands listed above in the charts and on stage than GaGa or the autotuned, under dressed (or hooker wear) under talented 'artists' thrust upon us by commercial radio and a music industry that has really lost it's way. Shit I'd rather go with my parents to see Neil Diamond.

your move now

okay.. separate musically just wanted to make sure no need for a personal attack

pjfan31

Where was S.Mouse? any links?

And Dave Grohl is one of the great frontmen... enough said...

Paul Andrews

your move now wrote:

okay.. separate musically just wanted to make sure no need for a personal attack

Never a need for a personal attack - never get one from me, just honest and respectful debate

Haywood Yablomee

You're a joke for watching an award show...
You might wanna work on your writing skills too.

eladder wrote:

Unless i was dreaming they performed w s.mouse (hbo show angry boys) tonight at grammys. Thank god for pj. Would rather be dead kurt than alive dave.

pandora

they don't speak to me like PJ does but I can appreciate that they do to others

they seemed so happy last evening and full of personality, that was nice to watch

Dirty Tom

DS1119 wrote:

F'N Hilarious!!!!