Foo Fighters

"Everlong" by a pretty good margin for me. Then "Walk" and "Learn to Fly."

 

I kind of jacked my own post off topic earlier, but the point I was kind of getting at was that Nirvana may really have had a potential songwriter combo in Cobain-Grohl that might have rivaled Lennon-McCartney and Jagger-Richards if Cobain hadn't been really messed up in the head and allowed/ encouraged Grohl to participate more in the writing process.

But Nirvana was probably never meant to have a 30 year lifespan.

 

"Monkey Wrench" is my fave Foos song

 

So did anybody see their 3 1/2 hour club extravaganza Lollapalooza afterparty show in Chicago?

 

Reason number 4,198 why Dave Grohl is the coolest son of a bitch on the planet.

Foo Fighters, 10-year-old boy perform Metallica song at Missouri concert

 

Collier also has reflected on his recent 15 minutes of fame.

“Metallica knows who I am, the Foo Fighters know who I am,” the fifth-grader told Fox 4 KC. “Dave Grohl gave me a guitar, I’ve played at the Sprint Center, I think my bucket list is done."

Not so fast there, kid. You just qualified as an early contender for the Poin Files.

 

I know this is late, but I have no idea how any of this is supposed to illustrate Foo Fighters.
The effort is acknowledged, though.

 

But if want to mesh Beatles and Foo Fighters together, they've already done it.

McCartney plays drums on this track. Quickly moving up my list of top Foo songs:

 

I still remember someone talking with Grohl about Prince. The question was asked who the better guitar player was?....Him or Grohl.......Grohl's response was along the line of "are you kidding me?......Prince was a better DRUMMER than I was."

 

Very awesome. I've seen Tower of Power do this as well, with a young sax player somewhere in Europe. They even picked him up at his house.

 

I have a lot of nostalgia for the self-titled debut. "The Colour and the Shape" is a tremendous album and I also really like "There is Nothing Left to Lose." ("Generator" would go near the top of my favorite Foo songs, though I concur "Everlong" is the triumph -- a true classic.)

However ... I really can't listen to the new stuff. To my ears they have really devolved into some adult contemporary pap of late. (Not as bad as the Weezer freefall, but painful nonetheless.) But in totality the catalog has some great work.