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tragabigzanda wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Foo Fighters is more of a stage production. Dave Grohl is an excellent entertainer and plays off the everything is an epic anthem shtick for 3 hours. The running through the crowd at the exact same moment in the set to the stage in the middle, or the yells, or the various other histrionics are all choreographed. Makes for a tight show when there’s not much in variation.
Yeah this feels right. Your mileage may vary, but I hate it.
As long as there’s some time between shows, I don’t mind it. As long as I dig the tunes, it’s a fun time.
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Foo Fighters is more of a stage production. Dave Grohl is an excellent entertainer and plays off the everything is an epic anthem shtick for 3 hours. The running through the crowd at the exact same moment in the set to the stage in the middle, or the yells, or the various other histrionics are all choreographed. Makes for a tight show when there’s not much in variation.
Yeah this feels right. Your mileage may vary, but I hate it.
What it breaks down to is I have seen the whole big 3 hour show. It was fun. I don’t need to see it again.
Conversely, I will feel burned, slighted and experiencing massive FOMO if Pearl Jam is within shouting distance and I don’t go.
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all the reviews for the new album seem to take a position of "This album isn't amazing, but that's ok, Grohl gets a pass because he's nice and he likes to rawk." wtf?
liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.
liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.
I guess I didn’t mean it derisively. Every kid needs their Led Zeppelin, and hell, if it’s Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters, they could do a lot worse (I mean in a world of Greta Van Fleets).
As far as the live show goes, I do prefer a less choreographed experience though, so that comment doesn’t change.
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it's weird how Dave is very much like Ed in that they both seem to enjoy being a rock star more than making great music much of the time, but somehow they do this in completely different ways and I can't describe them
Out July 17 as a limited edition vinyl album packaged era-appropriately in a dazzling rainbow mylar sleeve, HAIL SATIN is the bipolar party record of the summer. Side A features Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Shiflett and Jaffee lighting up the floor at Foo Fighters’ 606 studios with faithful renditions of five stone cold Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees bangers "You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy” and “More Than A Woman" + Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” — while side B literally rocks the party with live at 606 renditions of roughly half of Foo Fighters pandemic panacea album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT.
The DEE GEES: HAIL SATIN was recorded entirely at 606. For optimal results, listen with exposed chest hair and little gold spoon necklace (If you know, you know…).
Side A — The DEE GEES: You Should Be Dancing Night Fever Tragedy Shadow Dancing More Than a Woman
Side B — LIVE at 606: Making A Fire Shame Shame Waiting on a War No Son of Mine Cloudspotter
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liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.
Pretty much my take on it! Foo's were a great band between 1995-1997, loved the first two albums. The Brixton Academy '95 MTV show was just punk/grunge fun, and the Bizarre '97 show was also a fun spontaneous mid-festival slot. Both pro-shot shows which I watched to death as a teen.
It started to change for the worse with the 3rd album, and by the 4th, 'One By One', it was just theater. They're now a bloated mess - 3 guitarists? Some keyboard fella in the back? All the staged Dave shouts and roars, running around, extended meandering sections in songs? Nah.
These days, Foo's shows are to rock what Metallica shows are to metal. An excuse for event junkies to say they were 'there' at a massive rock/metal gig.
liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.
Pretty much my take on it! Foo's were a great band between 1995-1997, loved the first two albums. The Brixton Academy '95 MTV show was just punk/grunge fun, and the Bizarre '97 show was also a fun spontaneous mid-festival slot. Both pro-shot shows which I watched to death as a teen.
It started to change for the worse with the 3rd album, and by the 4th, 'One By One', it was just theater. They're now a bloated mess - 3 guitarists? Some keyboard fella in the back? All the staged Dave shouts and roars, running around, extended meandering sections in songs? Nah.
These days, Foo's shows are to rock what Metallica shows are to metal. An excuse for event junkies to say they were 'there' at a massive rock/metal gig.
Their blatant transformation from an excellent rock band into vapid stadium-rock generica is truly depressing.
Out July 17 as a limited edition vinyl album packaged era-appropriately in a dazzling rainbow mylar sleeve, HAIL SATIN is the bipolar party record of the summer. Side A features Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Shiflett and Jaffee lighting up the floor at Foo Fighters’ 606 studios with faithful renditions of five stone cold Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees bangers "You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy” and “More Than A Woman" + Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” — while side B literally rocks the party with live at 606 renditions of roughly half of Foo Fighters pandemic panacea album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT.
The DEE GEES: HAIL SATIN was recorded entirely at 606. For optimal results, listen with exposed chest hair and little gold spoon necklace (If you know, you know…).
Side A — The DEE GEES: You Should Be Dancing Night Fever Tragedy Shadow Dancing More Than a Woman
Side B — LIVE at 606: Making A Fire Shame Shame Waiting on a War No Son of Mine Cloudspotter
liebzz hit the nail on the head about the stage show. That level of choreography masqueraded as spontaneity is horrid. They were my fav. band when I was 13, and I enjoyed seeing them on the One by One tour, but by In Your Honor I was well and truly over Dave's bullshit.
Pretty much my take on it! Foo's were a great band between 1995-1997, loved the first two albums. The Brixton Academy '95 MTV show was just punk/grunge fun, and the Bizarre '97 show was also a fun spontaneous mid-festival slot. Both pro-shot shows which I watched to death as a teen.
It started to change for the worse with the 3rd album, and by the 4th, 'One By One', it was just theater. They're now a bloated mess - 3 guitarists? Some keyboard fella in the back? All the staged Dave shouts and roars, running around, extended meandering sections in songs? Nah.
These days, Foo's shows are to rock what Metallica shows are to metal. An excuse for event junkies to say they were 'there' at a massive rock/metal gig.
Their blatant transformation from an excellent rock band into vapid stadium-rock generica is truly depressing.
yeah, it is. not only musically but also like everyone here said, the staged act. The music also took a very big dive.
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