Foo Fighters @ Red Rocks

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All I can say is WOW!!!!! I've been to 250+ rock/blues concerts in my day and I've never seen a band play so hard for an audience! They nailed their old stuff, their new stuff, a 5 song acoustic set complete with a cellist and violinist and a 4 song peel your face off encore! Supposedly this was the end of their 1.5 year tour, but again the set was so tight and absolutely amazing...all and all I throw my hat off to these guys. IMHO Dave Grohl is a future hall of fame inductee and is the man in my book! Anyone who is a music fan needs to see a concert at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO before they die...I'm [censored] lucky to live in the area.
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No UFO's, but they played 'All My Life' and then some. Dave Grohl was hilarious and his guitar solos were outstanding for an ex-drummer! Obviously he believed in the practice concept to become a better musician.
 
Originally Posted By: pickled
. . . Anyone who is a music fan needs to see a concert at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO before they die...I'm [censored] lucky to live in the area.
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Yahoo for you! I recall the concert I went to during my first summer in Denver -- Steve Miller Band at Red Rocks. An experience and a half!
 
IMHO Nothing could match that unique situation...the weather, the political environment, their youth etc. etc. The show is being released on DVD here in the US on September 30. That show launched their career here in the West...Bono was like a kid in a candy store, "This place is F@$*%#G beautiful" was stated on several occasions at the concert! The Foo Fighters might have played their guts out...but there is only one U2.
 
Did they find a second chord ?

I like the foofighters, but a mate in the next cubicle was playing them yesterday...with only the guitar over the partition wall, it was very monotonous.
 
Their new material is pretty solid...the compositions on their Skin and Bones acoustic are pretty slick. Go to iTunes (pay homage to Steve Jobs while you are waiting for it to load) and give it a preview.
 
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IMHO Nothing could match that unique situation...the weather, the political environment, their youth etc. etc. The show is being released on DVD here in the US on September 30. That show launched their career here in the West...Bono was like a kid in a candy store, "This place is F@$*%#G beautiful" was stated on several occasions at the concert! The Foo Fighters might have played their guts out...but there is only one U2.


U2 is probbaly the most overrated band in the universe; after "Joshua Tree" and "achtung baby" they sang and composed nothing but KRRAPP! "it's a beautiful day" ? come on.
 
Come on though you have to respect U2's early years? It's like saying that Metallica was overrated in the metal category because they floated some turd albums after their respective mental melt downs. All bands wax and wane, and yes Bono's continuously variable political cause-head ways do get to me too.
 
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Come on though you have to respect U2's early years?


I do. That's why I said AFTER those 2 albums that i named.
when they were singing "New Year's day" and "one" I thought they deserved even more respect than what they got at the time.

It's when they began to sing the poppy kkrrapp that appealed to 13 yr olds, that they began to get huge and overrated; and they TOTALLY continued to do the same lame act just to get more teeny fans. Most of those teenage fans have't even heard "new year's day" i bet. I hate the U2 that emerged as a teeny pop idol. NOT the U2 that used to be good/genuine.

same goes for REM. how many of their "current" teenage fans know "fall on me", I wonder...

-----sorry for the thread jack-----
 
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