Foo Fighters Shouldn’t Be Such an ‘Easy Target’

We went to the Rock Hall today and I grabbed a snap of this setlist from the Foo Fighters portion of the exhibit.

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A few hours later, it hit me — another reason why I love this band so much — they’re so aligned with my own personal timeline.

It’s 1995 as I’m just starting my dream job at WMMS (as an intern in those early months, but the rollercoaster was moving quickly). We got the initial songs from the debut Foo Fighters album and eventually the whole record.

We were all big Nirvana fans and like a lot of fellow music lovers, the Foo Fighters songs knocked us for a loop. We’d enjoyed watching Dave Grohl do his thing on drums (still a thrilling thing to witness) with Nirvana, but I think it was a total surprise to get what we got from this Foo Fighters thing.

Like anything else, you get something like this and you put it on with a bit of skepticism, hoping for good things but also realizing it could be a real dud that wouldn’t come anywhere close to the main project that you loved.

Well, that didn’t happen here. We were knocked out.

I’m looking at three different setlists from the Cleveland Agora: 1995, 1996 and 1997. I didn’t (for reasons I still don’t understand) attend any of those shows.

But there are fun memories attached. Mike Watt coming by the radio station while on tour to promote that 1995 show. He did an interview on WMMS and then walked next door and spent some amount of time talking sports with Tony Rizzo on our sister station, WHK. It was as great a day as you think it was.

Flash forward a bunch of years to April of 2015. It’s announced that Foo Fighters will be playing a show at Record Connection in Niles, OH. 150 people or so? Small. Immediately Annie and I begin to discuss. She locks in a review for Ultimate Classic Rock and I’m pretty sure her access (one ticket) was confirmed fairly quickly. Meanwhile, I reach out about covering it for Cleveland Scene and get a very nice message back that in a nutshell says, “Let me see what I can do.” We drive the 70-80 minutes to Niles and we are sitting in the parking lot. No word on my access. BOOM, on a Saturday morning, by the way, there’s the email telling me that my access is sorted.

Watch Foo Fighters perform at Record Connection in 2015

As I’ve told many folks since that day, that Record Connection show was a sufficient raincheck for the Agora shows I didn’t see. It had that same vibe and they were ON it. I put earplugs in and it was still crazy loud. I had started a recording on my phone to be able to capture the banter in between songs at the very least to refer back to on the review I would be writing later. As I recall, there’s not much that came out on that recording. It was Manowar levels of loud and so good.

I’m not sure that I was completely sold on the Sonic Highways album at that point. Either way, “Congregation” is one of the tunes from that record that I love to this day — and they played it that day in Niles. That song and “I Am A River” are two that I thought about as this post was forming in my head, that I’ve gone back to a lot. Songs that have brought me a certain amount of comfort when I’ve needed it personally. They opened a shade to let in some very necessary light in important moments.

Important friendships connected to this band. There’s Jack, getting me a t-shirt at that Niles show. There’s another friend, messaging me on Facebook last night, asking if I’m going to be at the House of Blues show. When I told him that we had dinner plans, but that there was also a small amount of regret about not going to the show, he offered me his extra. “Not this time,” I told him, while letting him know how much the gesture was appreciated.

Their music weaves in and out of my friendships and eras in such interesting ways. The albums are mile markers of sorts that have dotted important points in my life both personally and professionally and I could go many more paragraphs on all of that. Those of you who understand this band and get the tunes will have similar stories and connections.

One thing that’s also a constant is hearing people talk about how much this band sucks. How Dave Grohl is annoying, an average vocalist, etc. etc. etc. I’ve always looked at Foo Fighters in an interesting light. They turn out albums that have a consistent sound, but they’re always thinking of new ways to get to that sound, always trying new things. So if these albums really suck as bad as some people will portray, I’m glad to have gotten the set of ears that hears them in a different way that makes them real (Velveteen Rabbit thoughts here) in the way that they’re apparently not supposed to be.

The Foo Fighters don’t need a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction to underline the importance of what they’ve done. It’s right there in the records and for those of us who understand ‘em, we’re lucky, lucky folks indeed.