Re: Foo Fighters
Wed May 20, 2015 3:46 pm
Foo Fighters to Serve as Letterman's Final Musical Guest
Dave's "favorite band" will make one last appearance before the curtain closes on 'Late Show'
By Daniel Kreps May 20, 2015
Foo Fighters, David Letterman's favorite band, will serve as the final musical guest when the late-night host bids farewell to Late Show on Wednesday night. Letterman and Dave Grohl's band have shared a unique bond the past 15 years. In addition to frequenting the program, Foo Fighters also staged a weeklong residency on Late Show in October 2014 to celebrate their new album/HBO travelogue Sonic Highways.
A representative for Foo Fighters declined to comment on the band's appearance.
In February 2000, Letterman underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery following a heart attack. After being sidelined for five weeks, the host asked Foo Fighters to appear on his first post-surgery show to perform "Everlong," their single that was instrumental in the host's recovery. Introducing the Foo Fighters for that performance, Letterman said "my favorite band playing my favorite song."
"When he had his open-heart surgery, he was gone for a while and when he came back he requested the Foo Fighters be the first band to perform for his first week back because he wanted to hear the song ‘Everlong,’" Grohl told the Orange County Register. "Ever since that day, we've been in love. I don't know how many times we've played that show, but every time we do and I stand in the Ed Sullivan Theater, I never take that for granted."
During the Foo Fighters' star-studded Late Show residency, Letterman shared a poignant story about how one Foo track soundtracked a major moment in his fatherhood. "Years and years and years ago when I became a father, I recognized I was older than most fathers, and so did my son. And so I said I have to find something I can do with my son and we can do it together," Letterman said. He then took his son skiing in the mountains of Montana, and on the last day of the trip, their ski instructor filmed Letterman and his son skiing down the mountain.
The video arrived on a DVD weeks later, and the song the instructor used as a musical bed was Foo Fighters' In Your Honor cut "Miracle." "This is the second song of theirs that will always have great, great meaning for me for the rest of my life," Letterman said. Grohl and company then performed that song live for Letterman, whose Worldwide Pants co-produced Grohl's Sonic Highways series. ("Letterman was the first person to get behind this project," Grohl admitted.)
The final stretch of Letterman performances have seen Tom Waits debut a new song titled "Take One Last Look," Eddie Vedder performing a solo "Better Man" and Bob Dylan making a rare late-night television appearance on the penultimate episode to play "The Night We Called It a Day."
Dave's "favorite band" will make one last appearance before the curtain closes on 'Late Show'
By Daniel Kreps May 20, 2015
Foo Fighters, David Letterman's favorite band, will serve as the final musical guest when the late-night host bids farewell to Late Show on Wednesday night. Letterman and Dave Grohl's band have shared a unique bond the past 15 years. In addition to frequenting the program, Foo Fighters also staged a weeklong residency on Late Show in October 2014 to celebrate their new album/HBO travelogue Sonic Highways.
A representative for Foo Fighters declined to comment on the band's appearance.
In February 2000, Letterman underwent emergency quintuple bypass surgery following a heart attack. After being sidelined for five weeks, the host asked Foo Fighters to appear on his first post-surgery show to perform "Everlong," their single that was instrumental in the host's recovery. Introducing the Foo Fighters for that performance, Letterman said "my favorite band playing my favorite song."
"When he had his open-heart surgery, he was gone for a while and when he came back he requested the Foo Fighters be the first band to perform for his first week back because he wanted to hear the song ‘Everlong,’" Grohl told the Orange County Register. "Ever since that day, we've been in love. I don't know how many times we've played that show, but every time we do and I stand in the Ed Sullivan Theater, I never take that for granted."
During the Foo Fighters' star-studded Late Show residency, Letterman shared a poignant story about how one Foo track soundtracked a major moment in his fatherhood. "Years and years and years ago when I became a father, I recognized I was older than most fathers, and so did my son. And so I said I have to find something I can do with my son and we can do it together," Letterman said. He then took his son skiing in the mountains of Montana, and on the last day of the trip, their ski instructor filmed Letterman and his son skiing down the mountain.
The video arrived on a DVD weeks later, and the song the instructor used as a musical bed was Foo Fighters' In Your Honor cut "Miracle." "This is the second song of theirs that will always have great, great meaning for me for the rest of my life," Letterman said. Grohl and company then performed that song live for Letterman, whose Worldwide Pants co-produced Grohl's Sonic Highways series. ("Letterman was the first person to get behind this project," Grohl admitted.)
The final stretch of Letterman performances have seen Tom Waits debut a new song titled "Take One Last Look," Eddie Vedder performing a solo "Better Man" and Bob Dylan making a rare late-night television appearance on the penultimate episode to play "The Night We Called It a Day."
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon June 08, 2015 3:10 pm
Re: Foo Fighters
Fri June 12, 2015 10:49 pm
Re: Foo Fighters
Fri June 12, 2015 10:57 pm
He is the anti axl rose.
Re: Foo Fighters
Fri June 12, 2015 11:02 pm
VinylGuy wrote:He is the anti axl rose.
And no one's ever received a greater compliment.
Re: Foo Fighters
Fri June 12, 2015 11:31 pm
I hope they don't cancel dates. I have Fenway tix.
Re: Foo Fighters
Sun July 05, 2015 6:55 am
Just saw the DC gig at RFK Stadium for the 4th. I wanted it to be so much better than it was, and I actually really like Grohl. He's the hometown guy to us, so even sub-par songs everyone else hates get a pass from me.
I wanted them to play all of the first record straight through. Fat chance. Stock setlist, but they tossed in For All The Cows and Alone + Easy Target. Cool enough, but I'd rather have I'll Stick Around, Good Grief, X-Static, and Exhausted.
And then as expected, the enthusiasm of your typical DC crowd just faded as the show wore on. People started getting bored deep into the set and showed nothing for lesser known and newer songs.
Certain songs were cool, though. He showed the video of his fall a few times, his morphine drip, and how he began his recovery. I honestly wanted him to cancel the entire thing and wait until he was better, but as he said, he had zero intention of missing the 20th anniversary show for a hometown crowd.
I wanted them to play all of the first record straight through. Fat chance. Stock setlist, but they tossed in For All The Cows and Alone + Easy Target. Cool enough, but I'd rather have I'll Stick Around, Good Grief, X-Static, and Exhausted.
And then as expected, the enthusiasm of your typical DC crowd just faded as the show wore on. People started getting bored deep into the set and showed nothing for lesser known and newer songs.
Certain songs were cool, though. He showed the video of his fall a few times, his morphine drip, and how he began his recovery. I honestly wanted him to cancel the entire thing and wait until he was better, but as he said, he had zero intention of missing the 20th anniversary show for a hometown crowd.
Re: Foo Fighters
Sun July 05, 2015 1:50 pm
that throne's pretty sweet. did it move around at all?
Re: Foo Fighters
Sun July 05, 2015 4:09 pm
Up and down the runway a half dozen times throughout the show.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:06 pm
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:18 pm
Rangi Guy wrote:
Ah thats my dream. To hop up and play guitar with PJ. Evacuation to be exact
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:29 pm
What a moment. I used to fantasize that I'd be at a show and they'd need a drummer and hey presto.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:31 pm
My friend got to play on stage with Weezer (his favorite band at the time) in Chicago.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:33 pm
I got to play with Paw. That was bonerific.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:33 pm
can we start a petition to get strat to play evacuation with pj?
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:36 pm
If you'd stayed with the cancer woman and posted on the pit....
I'll take this down if it's too far.
I'll take this down if it's too far.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:37 pm
LetMeSleep wrote:If you'd stayed with the cancer woman and posted on the pit....
I'll take this down if it's too far.
lol! Not too far
- Spoiler: show
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:47 pm
why does grohl annoy me so much now? his stage banter is grating to me.
Re: Foo Fighters
Mon July 13, 2015 10:49 pm
BDB wrote:why does grohl annoy me so much now? his stage banter is grating to me.
http://www.bdcwire.com/the-pretender-wh ... ave-grohl/