Fantastic Fun Fighting Foo

Dr Desert Flower and I saw the Foo Fighters at the US Airways Arena in downtown Phoenix last night.  We had very nice 4th row seats, adjacent to the 'standing-only' main floor, stage right, section 114 (about 20 seats away from the front of the stage).  Now that James brown is dead, I would say that Dave Grohl is not only the hardest working man in show business (Foo Fighters, Them Wicked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, husband & father) but is also probably have MORE FUN than any other performer in touring rock bands today.

I enjoyed Dave's drumming in Nirvana years ago, and did not initially embrace his Foo Fighters and Qof the SA work, but my buddy Ryan once posed the question to me over a beer several years ago "What other group in in America is making awesome rock music, that you can REALLY get into now a days? really, when you think about it, Foo Fighters have been for more than a dozen of years and continue today."  We were not talking about speed metal, heavy metal, dark gothic rock, happy-happy-pop-music-pablum, alternative music, or technically difficult progressive exploratory journeys into the musical wilderness.  He and I don't listen to hair metal bands, shock rock, top 40, country, western, or hip hop (though some old school can be fun, before it became an exercise in misogyny and about rebellion against 'da man)... and while Ryan enjoys blue grass and I have a proclivity for classic composers, classic jazz (not sticky jazz), depressing blues, silliness (likes SCOTS and TMBG) these are not considered "hard rocking bands".  Bands like Queen, Led Zeppelin & the Police don't exist anymore.

I challenge  JustJoeP visitors to comment here, to suggest "Hard Rocking Bands" that are still active and touring today.  Your suggestions will not be mocked or criticized - chacun sa merde - everyone has their own opinion.  This blog gives me a forum to express mine.



Lyrics to All My Life :

All my life I’ve been searching for something
Something never comes, never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies, but I’m getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around and it’s taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost
Calm down, don’t you resist
You’ve such a delicate wrist
And if I give it a twist
Something to hold when I lose my grip
Will I find something in there?
To give me just what I need
Another reason to bleed
One by one hidden up my sleeve x2

(chorus)
Hey don’t let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight, keeping me down) x2

Will I find a believer?
Another one who believes
Another one to deceive
Over and over down on my knees
If I get any closer
And if you open up wide
And if you let me inside
On and on I got nothing to hide x2

(chorus)x2

All my life I’ve been searching for something
Something never comes, never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies, but I’m getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around and it’s taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost
Then I’m done done, on to the next one
Done done, and I’m on to the next one x6
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next
Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next one
Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next

(chorus)

Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next

All my life I’ve been searching for something
Something never comes, never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies, but I’m getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around and it’s taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost
Calm down, don’t you resist
You’ve such a delicate wrist
And if I give it a twist
Something to hold when I lose my grip
Will I find something in there?
To give me just what I need
Another reason to bleed
One by one hidden up my sleeve x2

(chorus)
Hey don’t let it go to waste
I love it but I hate the taste
Weight, keeping me down) x2

Will I find a believer?
Another one who believes
Another one to deceive
Over and over down on my knees
If I get any closer
And if you open up wide
And if you let me inside
On and on I got nothing to hide x2

[in concert last night here, Dave G paused in a repeated coda... and said "here is where I am supposed to scream my head off..." and held the audience at bay for a good 2 or 3 minutes of tangents]

(chorus)

All my life I’ve been searching for something
Something never comes, never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies, but I’m getting close
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around and it’s taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
Feel it come to life when I see your ghost
Then I’m done done, on to the next one
Done done, and I’m on to the next one x6
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next
Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next one
Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next

(chorus)

Done done on to the next one
Done I’m done and I’m on to the next