foo fighters

musicismylife78

Are they a decent band live?

I am a huge nirvana fan, and think overall the foo's catelogue is pretty good.

They are doing an acoustic tour.

Anyone think its worth it?

Thumbing My Way

I saw them last summer in Toronto and it was one of my top shows I've been too for sure!!

The sound was flawless and they rocked the whole time!!

I'm not too sure what an acoustic tour would be like but I can tell you that full band they flat out rocked!!

BluntManGuy

Thumbing My Way wrote:

I saw them last summer in Toronto and it was one of my top shows I've been too for sure!!

The sound was flawless and they rocked the whole time!!

I'm not too sure what an acoustic tour would be like but I can tell you that full band they flat out rocked!!

Amen. That was one hell of a concert.

I saw them last summer as well with Weezer (which I actually thought they did a great job as well...first time I seen them they opened for +Live+ without a drummer due to sudden illness acoustic style and it was horrible. But that was back in like 94-95?) and Foo took the lid off that joint! This upcoming tour sounds like a excellent idea. Just listen to the "slow" disc from the new album...cause I'm sure it's gonna be alot of those songs and a few others from previous albums mainly. Here's to hoping they'll do "Breakout" or something crazy like that...lol

P.S. That was a co-headline show and Weezer came on before Foo and actually had an encore. It was only 3 songs but hey...maybe PJ will get to squeeze in 4 before they lay down the rose petals for TPATHB.

red mos

Yes. Foo fighters are great live. My 2nd fave band to see live behind Pearl jam. Great energy, Dave is real talkative too. The only thing is that I wish they would change their set lists more. I have seen them 2 times (once they headlined Buzzfest), and the energy is amazing, the don't play much of anything off the first record anymore, and I wish they would, they usually only play 1 song from it.

chris01

The Foo's are great live, ive seen them 3 times now (once at a festival). The difference between them and other rock bands is Dave interacts with the crowd alot and they put on a good show.

I dunno about an acoustic tour though, not exactly a jump up and down kinda thing, lol.

akuzed

I've seen them more than 6 times because the missus is a huge Dave Grohl fan. Lord only knows why, he's got the overbite of a donkey

The last gig we went to in December 05 was amazing. By far the best I've seen so far, which is saying something because every show has been superb, including Reading festival 3 times.

I'm seeing them again next month at a gig in Hyde Park, London. Should be a good day, we've got:

Foos
Queens of the Stone Age
Motorhead
Angels and Airwaves
Juliette Lewis and the Licks

facepollution

I've seen Foos live around 12 times now, and they NEVER fail to put on a decent show. Not sure how an acoustic show would go down, but their regular shows are always worth going to. Can't wait for the Hyde Park show!

chime

akuzed wrote:

I'm seeing them again next month at a gig in Hyde Park, London. Should be a good day, we've got:

Foos
Queens of the Stone Age
Motorhead
Angels and Airwaves
Juliette Lewis and the Licks

I'm going to this aswell tix finally arrived yesterday

Have seen them once before and has to be one of my fav gigs.

As said elsewhere they completely rock the place and look like they are having am amazing time and Dave takes time to interact with the audience.

Would def recommend seeing them.

akuzed

I think they tried to deliver ours yesterday Chime but obviously we were at work @ 2:45pm Missus is getting them delivered to work so should have them in hand by end of the week We were only saying the other day it was odd that we ordered these months ago yet the PJ Dublin tickets came before Foos.

I'm really looking forward to it, I saw the Chilis at Hyde Park and it's a decent place to hold a mini-festival. Sound isn't too good, or wasn't that night, but if you get close to a speaker or up near the front it's okay. Toilets were a disgrace though, had to trapse through urine soaked mud, not pleasant.

Managed to get a hotel opposite Hyde Park in Lancaster Gate for £60 too, which was nice.

You may well spot us because I have a feeling Di will be wearing her Astoria t-shirt. I'll be the short bloke falling over drunk next to her

chime

akuzed wrote:

I think they tried to deliver ours yesterday Chime but obviously we were at work @ 2:45pm Missus is getting them delivered to work so should have them in hand by end of the week We were only saying the other day it was odd that we ordered these months ago yet the PJ Dublin tickets came before Foos.

I'm really looking forward to it, I saw the Chilis at Hyde Park and it's a decent place to hold a mini-festival. Sound isn't too good, or wasn't that night, but if you get close to a speaker or up near the front it's okay. Toilets were a disgrace though, had to trapse through urine soaked mud, not pleasant.

Managed to get a hotel opposite Hyde Park in Lancaster Gate for £60 too, which was nice.

You may well spot us because I have a feeling Di will be wearing her Astoria t-shirt. I'll be the short bloke falling over drunk next to her

I'm going to Dublin too

They tried to deliver my tix on Saturday (was in the shower) so had to have them delivered to work.

Maybe I should wear my Astoria T to the Foos Are you guys in the Inner Circle?

I was at Chilis in Hyde Park but in the main area we moved to the middle near the front to get good sound but there were some dodgy areas. We missed Chicks on Speed which judging the booing when Flea mentioned their name may have been a good thing

I'm lucky can commute home as long as I manage not to miss the last train home :eek: one time when I'm happy about the curfew.

akuzed

Nah we're in the general mate. It'd be pointless us going in the 'gold' area due to the fact one of the crowd I'm with will be off to the bar every 10 minutes, plus the subsequent beer induced toilet visits every 5 minutes

Chicks on Speed sucked, big time. We were right by the front (bar ) and the noise from the boo's while they were on stage was deafening. Shame because it can't be easy playing to a crowd that big, but they weren't really a band you'd expect to see at the RHCP's. Although in saying that James Brown kicked ass

I'd love to be able to commute, but there's hardly ever anything decent in the Midlands these days. 99% of the gigs I've been to have been in London or Manchester. Costs me a frigging fortune in hotels and travel every bloody year.

The one gig I wish I'd been to Brum is PJ in 1992. They played in the Rock club I go to in Brum city centre, Edwards #8 and I missed it :(

chime

akuzed wrote:

Nah we're in the general mate. It'd be pointless us going in the 'gold' area due to the fact one of the crowd I'm with will be off to the bar every 10 minutes, plus the subsequent beer induced toilet visits every 5 minutes

Chicks on Speed sucked, big time. We were right by the front (bar ) and the noise from the boo's while they were on stage was deafening. Shame because it can't be easy playing to a crowd that big, but they weren't really a band you'd expect to see at the RHCP's. Although in saying that James Brown kicked ass

I'd love to be able to commute, but there's hardly ever anything decent in the Midlands these days. 99% of the gigs I've been to have been in London or Manchester. Costs me a frigging fortune in hotels and travel every bloody year.

The one gig I wish I'd been to Brum is PJ in 1992. They played in the Rock club I go to in Brum city centre, Edwards #8 and I missed it :(

Ah well I'm sure we'll get a good gig.

Am only 5'2" so after Chilis decided I better get myself in the inner circle this time for a better chance of seeing something

Sounds like we didn't miss much by staying in the pub for an extra couple

I'm originally an East Midlander.

VON

The foo's are awsome live!! I saw them in december. The setlists are full of their hits most of the time. They could mix it up a bit more. I'm not sure what the accustic tour would be like. When I saw them Dave played everlong accusticly, it was great!

cookie5798

I saw them last summer as well. They totally blew me away. I will definately go see their acoustic tour when they play the south again. It's totally worth the dough!

Nothingman UK

Go and see them! Saw them a good few years ago ,on the day the 'Colour and the Shape' album was released, at the Cambridge Corn Exchange (a small venue). Pat Smear was still with them at the time and it was one of the best shows I have ever been to.

akuzed

Chime wrote:

Ah well I'm sure we'll get a good gig.

Yeah, £45 or whatever it was for 5 bands is pretty good. You'd pay more than that for the Foos and QotSA on their own!

I checked the tour dates on the Foos site and the Acoustic tour is US only thus far which is a shame. Frank Black (Pixies) is supporting through August.

PearlJamminJason

foo fighters and pearl jam are the only 2 bands that i think can do no wrong!!

Pearl Jam and toast

Everyone i've heard has been to a Foo show left blown away.

Plus Dave's got a terrific voice.. it'd be nice to hear him when he doesn't have to scream over loud guitars

jack_bass_player

i went to see the foos in manchester uk on june 18th


was totally incredible!! i loved it - crazy crowd down the front kept you on your toes but it wasn't too bad

great band

and nobody can argue that dave grohl = legend

and just for the record, i don't really like nirvana.

stu gee

Ive seen them a couple of times and they are excellent live, id go and see an accoustic show as well. Dave grohl has always been really good with the crowd and its always a great night.

tones

I saw them in detroit last fall with Weezer and Kaiser Chiefs. It was a killer show but i'd love to see the acoustic tour.

weenie

I'd say it depends on whether you like the "slow, quiet" disc on their last 2 CD set. When they started touring it, they did all the fast, loud stuff from disc 1 and it was an awesome show by the way. They said they'd be around again to do the slow disc of the CD acoustically. They really are good so I imagine an acoustic show would be great even if it was only the "slow" disc songs from their last CD. JMO

Jeanwah

I saw FF w/ the Chili Peppers about 7 years ago. In my opinion, Foo Fighters blew the headliners out of the water. And I've seen the Chili Peppers and thought they were great, but they wouldn't play anything off my fave album (One Hot Minute).