This one’s a gut punch. When the Foo Fighter’s released the Dee Gees record last year it just clicked for me that this was a band that had reached their final form. They were having so much fun that they could really do whatever the heck they wanted and it would be entertaining as hell.
They were the elder statesmen of 90s rock, the last band standing and it was perfect for a moment.
I saw the Foo Fighters in 98 after the Colour & the Shape was released, at one point during the set Dave & Taylor swapped places for a cover song (Pink Floyd I think), despite not knowing the song I was in aww that someone had convinced Dave in 1998 to sit behind the drums in his still quite new post Nirvana act. That freaking mile wide smile on Taylor’s face as he sang still stands out over 20 years later.
After 20-ish years of thinking “I really should have see the Foo Fighters live again” I finally bought tickets for the planned Calgary show in September, hoping for a return to post pandemic live rock music.
This is a hard one to process.
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