dave grohl is one hell of a f**kin frontman!

lukin55

saw foo fighters in philly 2 nights ago, and this dude was fuckin amazing!!! he ran around like a madman for 2+ hours, was hysterically funny when he talked to the crowd, and was just an absolute amazing showman the entire night!!! besides the fact they are an amazing band, they put on one hell of a show, i was so, so impressed.... anyone who has seen them will agree with me, im sure, but i just wanted to let you guys know

GraySaturday

awesome! I am seeing them for the first time on Monday.. sound like it should be a blast

PJPixie

I agree 100 million percent!

haffajappa

damn i'm missing the foo fighters this time around...
been meaning to see them and never really get the opportunity!

jamie uk

I have to admit, and this is a purely British thing I'm sure...Foo Fighters have been ruined for me. They have been 'selected' by 'the man', as 'the rock band that is acceptable to the masses'. They get shoved onto us through the populist media, alongside the sugarbabes, the Feeling, Mcfly... et al.
I'm sick of people, who just bought their's and James Blunt's new albums, telling me how awesome they are.
I was never over interested in them, now I'm not in the slightest bit interested.

sponger

jamie uk wrote:

I have to admit, and this is a purely British thing I'm sure...Foo Fighters have been ruined for me. They have been 'selected' by 'the man', as 'the rock band that is acceptable to the masses'. They get shoved onto us through the populist media, alongside the sugarbabes, the Feeling, Mcfly... et al.
I'm sick of people, who just bought their's and James Blunt's new albums, telling me how awesome they are.
I was never over interested in them, now I'm not in the slightest bit interested.

Thank you for posting this. I was wanting to echo something similar to those sentiments, but I didn't want to go it alone. You have bravely paved the way for me.

I just bought their new acoustic live DVD, skin and bones, and I cannot put into words how disappointed I am with how crappy their music has really become. In my opinion, they are the new Poison. They are the neo-butt-rockers.

jamie uk

sponger wrote:

Thank you for posting this. I was wanting to echo something similar to those sentiments, but I didn't want to go it alone. You have bravely paved the way for me.

I just bought their new acoustic live DVD, skin and bones, and I cannot put into words how disappointed I am with how crappy their music has really become. In my opinion, they are the new Poison. They are the neo-butt-rockers.

Oh, so it's not a purely British thing then?
I want to say, I'm not running them down completely, he is a decent front man..etc....but they do seem to have accepted this status they've been handed and I find it uncomfortable, and yeah, I guess they've never meant a lot to me but now.....well over rated pretty much covers it.

dontloseyourheat

jamie uk wrote:

I have to admit, and this is a purely British thing I'm sure...Foo Fighters have been ruined for me. They have been 'selected' by 'the man', as 'the rock band that is acceptable to the masses'. They get shoved onto us through the populist media, alongside the sugarbabes, the Feeling, Mcfly... et al.
I'm sick of people, who just bought their's and James Blunt's new albums, telling me how awesome they are.
I was never over interested in them, now I'm not in the slightest bit interested.

Why does this affect (effect?) how you feel about their music though? If you liked them before, why would you stop listening to their music because they have become more popular?

kenshunt

Yeah he is a good front man no doubt, but is he a better drummer ?

GreenTeaDisease

totally agree!

GreenTeaDisease

dontloseyourheat wrote:

Why does this affect (effect?) how you feel about their music though? If you liked them before, why would you stop listening to their music because they have become more popular?

right...sometimes bands become "popular" because they're good...there's nothing wrong with that. If you shut out good music just because it's popular, it's being close-minded and you're missing out...I don't expose myself to much of the "music media" so like I've always listened to foo fighters and I still do, nothing has changed.

Pearl Jam was once the most main-stream, media darling band on earth.

Drop The Leash 10

i just missed them in worcester :( :(

weenie

Yeah, like if you enjoy their music, who cares about the other stuff. I've been a fan since the beginning too but I don't let the transmigration to the "acceptable to the masses stuff" stop me from enjoying them. They DO put on one helluva show and Dave Grohl is a very talented guy. Everybody needs to make a living - including all of us here on the board. We all sell ourselves out in some form or another. That is, unless we're independently wealthy.

GreenTeaDisease

weenie wrote:

Yeah, like if you enjoy their music, who cares about the other stuff. I've been a fan since the beginning too but I don't let the transmigration to the "acceptable to the masses stuff" stop me from enjoying them. They DO put on one helluva show and Dave Grohl is a very talented guy. Everybody needs to make a living - including all of us here on the board. We all sell ourselves out in some form or another. That is, unless we're independently wealthy.

lord knows I'm selling myself out...I'm just hoping that if I sell myself out for a while, I won't have to later.

jamie uk

dontloseyourheat wrote:

Why does this affect (effect?) how you feel about their music though? If you liked them before, why would you stop listening to their music because they have become more popular?

Like I said, 'I was never over interested in them', always found them ok, but vastly over rated. I can't help it, I hear people banging on about them, but I just think there's so many better bands around is all.
If you love 'em, then great, no problemo for me.

dharma69

Elitists. Quality music is only quality if it's only embraced by a select few and the mass market stays unaware or goes nowhere near it.

Joke of the day. Thank you for the laugh.

*looks forward to seeing Foo again in Los Angeles after seeing them rock Madision Square Garden*

jamie uk

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

Pearl Jam was once the most main-stream, media darling band on earth.

Yes, for about a year and they were never comfortable with it, hence the back seat they've taken ever since.
It makes no diff to me how popular a band is, just wether I like 'em or not, and I've never been huge on the Foo's. I give 'em credit, yeah they're not terrible, just never found them as good as people, which now includes the popular media, made out.

GreenTeaDisease

jamie uk wrote:

Yes, for about a year and they were never comfortable with it, hence the back seat they've taken ever since.
It makes no diff to me how popular a band is, just wether I like 'em or not, and I've never been huge on the Foo's. I give 'em credit, yeah they're not terrible, just never found them as good as people, which now includes the popular media, made out.

well if you just don't like their music that's another story all together. but popularity of a band shouldn't influence that.

and pearl jam "fought the man" and weren't comfortable with celebrity and all that...that's great for them...but if Dave and the foos don't have a problem with it, I say rock on. Also you have to keep in mind, Dave Grohl is in his 40s now, you fight different battles the older you get. Even Ed is much different in the spotlight now than he used to be. I don't get the impression that Dave G is in it JUST be a larger-than-life money grubbing rock star either...he's been in a ton of bands and in many people's opinion is a very talented muscian, I think the foos have cred...

if I had a job I loved that made me a lot of money, I'd certainly enjoy it. I think it's just as bad for a band to put on a front pretending they aren't having fun and they don't want what they have. that's just lame.

Pauk

They do put on a good live show no matter what you think of their music. Sure the acoustic live album was a bit rubbish, but it was a great show to see, pity it didn't translate onto CD very well. I hold them in my heart as my nostalgic teenage band. Not that into them anymore, but they're playing Wembley on my 21st birthday, so I figure I might as well go as a final send off to my adolescent years.

jamie uk

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

well if you just don't like their music that's another story all together. but popularity of a band shouldn't influence that.

and pearl jam "fought the man" and weren't comfortable with celebrity and all that...that's great for them...but if Dave and the foos don't have a problem with it, I say rock on. Also you have to keep in mind, Dave Grohl is in his 40s now, you fight different battles the older you get. Even Ed is much different in the spotlight now than he used to be. I don't get the impression that Dave G is in it JUST be a larger-than-life money grubbing rock star either...he's been in a ton of bands and in many people's opinion is a very talented muscian, I think the foos have cred...

if I had a job I loved that made me a lot of money, I'd certainly enjoy it. I think it's just as bad for a band to put on a front pretending they aren't having fun and they don't want what they have. that's just lame.

I wouldn't argue with much of what you say, I really wouldn't. Apart from the obvious, and we've covered that.
This fella your talking to here went to see Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave ..and then Guns and Roses, all in the same year....I never had a problem with any bands success.
The original point I was trying to make is that 'the man' has selected the Foos for 'me', and I don't want them, never did, and I'm sick of all my 'not really into music' mates telling me how flippin brill they are.
Enjoy what you like.....

GreenTeaDisease

jamie uk wrote:

The original point I was trying to make is that 'the man' has selected the Foos for 'me', and I don't want them, never did, and I'm sick of all my 'not really into music' mates telling me how flippin brill they are.
Enjoy what you like.....

well that's just weird, you don't have to listen to "the man" or your friends. Hell, if I gave a grain of salt to what my 'not really into music' friends said, I'd be the biggest Wilco fan on earth. I don't like a ton of shit the media "tells me to." Doesn't bother me at all.