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[Monkismo]

Weren't they rumoured for this year after apparently signing up last June? How come they've dropped off the list?

I've just got tickets for Taylor Hawkins' band at Academy 3 in Manc which is only 2 weeks after Glasto so I know he's around (he's playing London in May) and Them Crooked Vultures are at Download a couple of weeks before with a gaping hole over the Glasto period before hitting more gigs in Europe in July. What are the chances of either playing? Could see a slot before U2 for the Foos or before Muse for Crooked Vultures.

Thoughts?

[Tugger2k]

Monkismo, on Apr 9 2010, 03:14 PM, said:

Weren't they rumoured for this year after apparently signing up last June? How come they've dropped off the list?

I've just got tickets for Taylor Hawkins' band at Academy 3 in Manc which is only 2 weeks after Glasto so I know he's around (he's playing London in May) and Them Crooked Vultures are at Download a couple of weeks before with a gaping hole over the Glasto period before hitting more gigs in Europe in July. What are the chances of either playing? Could see a slot before U2 for the Foos or before Muse for Crooked Vultures.

Thoughts?

not this year, but id have a huge bet on them next year. i know for a fact that michael tried to get them in 08 & 09 but due to scheduling it just didnt happen.

[BlackHole2006]

Monkismo, on Apr 9 2010, 03:14 PM, said:

Weren't they rumoured for this year after apparently signing up last June? How come they've dropped off the list?

I've just got tickets for Taylor Hawkins' band at Academy 3 in Manc which is only 2 weeks after Glasto so I know he's around (he's playing London in May) and Them Crooked Vultures are at Download a couple of weeks before with a gaping hole over the Glasto period before hitting more gigs in Europe in July. What are the chances of either playing? Could see a slot before U2 for the Foos or before Muse for Crooked Vultures.

Thoughts?

Good news.

The only reason they are big is because Dave Grohl drummed in Nirvana. They have written some catchy songs, The Pretender is prettey decent but other than that they are your average rock band

[ThomThomDrum]

The Foo Fighters can Foof off! Bunch of motherfoofers!  

[Tugger2k]

BlackHole2006, on Apr 9 2010, 03:25 PM, said:

Good news.

The only reason they are big is because Dave Grohl drummed in Nirvana. They have written some catchy songs, The Pretender is prettey decent but other than that they are your average rock band

yep, thats the only reason alright

[ThomThomDrum]

Tugger2k, on Apr 9 2010, 03:27 PM, said:

yep, thats the only reason alright

It helped in a MAJOR way.............dont think they would of had legs without him and the attention he was able to generate in the early days.............

[Craig_G]

One of my favourite bands.

[Tugger2k]

ThomThomDrum, on Apr 9 2010, 03:28 PM, said:

It helped in a MAJOR way.............dont think they would of had legs without him and the attention he was able to generate in the early days.............

i dont deny that. but to claim its the ONLY reason is naive at best! and just ignorant at worst.

their not going to change music, their not trying to, but for all out fun gig, their right up there.

and who can hate dave??? nicest man in music!!

[laid back in the sun]

thank god, dreadful band and they'd never have been big only for dave grohl being in nirvana, kurt must be rolling in his grave!

[fowls]

ThomThomDrum, on Apr 9 2010, 03:28 PM, said:

It helped in a MAJOR way.............dont think they would of had legs without him and the attention he was able to generate in the early days.............

Yes, it helped in the initial boost, but if the Foos had no fanbase of their own would they really be headlining Wembley Stadium over 12 years later?  Being "that guy from Nirvana" can only get you so far before people get bored.

[judyblue110]

Tugger2k, on Apr 9 2010, 03:31 PM, said:

their not going to change music, their not trying to, but for all out fun gig, their right up there.

I agree. I unfortunately used to dislike them, just writing them off as a mediocre rock band.

However, after seeing them live, it changed my perception of them entirely. They're just there to have fun, play some loud music. And they write some damn fine catchy rock songs, no denying that!

[ivan]

The Foo's seemed to be the first band to overkill in the Uk

Then they handed the baton to The Killers who then handed it to KOL.

KOL better not hand it back to Foo's

  

[Monkismo]

fowls, on Apr 9 2010, 03:43 PM, said:

Yes, it helped in the initial boost, but if the Foos had no fanbase of their own would they really be headlining Wembley Stadium over 12 years later?  Being "that guy from Nirvana" can only get you so far before people get bored.

Agreed. I know loads of ex grunge fans who loved the Foos back then but can't stand anything past the second album. They've changed and so has their fanbase. Bet half of them don't even know he was in Nirvana these days!

I was just asking cos my Mrs and her sister are massive fans. I can take or leave them and am very much under the "once you've seen them, you don't really need to do so again" banner. Would love to see Crooked Vultures play though - that's one seriously funky rock album.

[eFestivals]

Monkismo, on Apr 9 2010, 03:14 PM, said:

Weren't they rumoured for this year after apparently signing up last June? How come they've dropped off the list?

they were, because of something Michael said when giving a talk about this time last year ... but like many things that far into the future, it never really looked too much like it was really going to happen even before Grolh got more diverted with TCV than he probably expected to.

[TG24]

when you consider 1) Grohl played every instrument bar one guitar part on the Foo's debut album 2) where the Foo's are now in the music world 3) the reception TCV are getting at the moment and 4) the numerous artists Grohl has played/drummed for, AND THEN look back at Nirvana -

do you still consider Grohl just as 'that guy from Nirvana' or is there any chance that he might have some talent of his own and have been a considerable part of what Nirvana were?

Edited by TG24, 09 April 2010 - 03:03 PM.

[ThomThomDrum]

Tugger2k, on Apr 9 2010, 03:31 PM, said:

i dont deny that. but to claim its the ONLY reason is naive at best! and just ignorant at worst.

I agree..........its the same old thing when someone deals in absolutes on a fourm............it gives licence to argue/debate..........

fowls, on Apr 9 2010, 03:43 PM, said:

Yes, it helped in the initial boost, but if the Foos had no fanbase of their own would they really be headlining Wembley Stadium over 12 years later?  Being "that guy from Nirvana" can only get you so far before people get bored.

Ah but you see...........he was that guy from Nirvana, and if the Foos did not have him in the begining would they have lasted? Hard to definitively say, but in my humble opinion................"No" they would not have............he brought them to a massive world wide audience without trying.............how many new up and coming bands can do that?

He gave a mediocre band a platform to sell some tunes and it caught on........fair balls to them.......but my cup of tea they aint

I have seen them numerous times a festivals and not once have I went...........Ah! Now I get it.........They are crap IMO

[laid back in the sun]

TG24, on Apr 9 2010, 03:58 PM, said:

when you consider 1) Grohl played every instrument bar one guitar part on the Foo's debut album 2) where the Foo's are now in the music world 3) the reception TCV are getting at the moment and 4) the numerous artists Grohl has played/drummed for, AND THEN look back at Nirvana -

do you still consider Grohl just as 'that guy from Nirvana' or is there any chance that he might have some talent of his own and have been a considerable part of what Nirvana were?

or another way to look at it is nothing he's done since nirvana has come close and he didn't even play on nirvanas best album!

[fowls]

ThomThomDrum, on Apr 9 2010, 04:02 PM, said:

Ah but you see...........he was that guy from Nirvana, and if the Foos did not have him in the begining would they have lasted? Hard to definitively say, but in my humble opinion................"No" they would not have............he brought them to a massive world wide audience without trying.............how many new up and coming bands can do that?

He gave a mediocre band a platform to sell some tunes and it caught on........fair balls to them.......but my cup of tea they aint

I have seen them numerous times a festivals and not once have I went...........Ah! Now I get it.........They are crap IMO

But conversely, look at Kris Novoselic.  He started over with Sweet 75, and how many people have heard of them?

Grohl never used Nirvana's name when forming the Foos, and the band would never have even started if Grohl's friends hadn't sent the pocketwatch demos to record labels.  I think it's fair to say Grohl tried to be as humble as possible in respect to Nirvana, and he can't help it if he has that history.  To say they would never have made it without Nirvana is a massive "what if" that is simply impossible to know.  Making it big is always going to involve a certain amount of luck no matter how great a band is, so you could say these what ifs for any band.

You liking them or not is completely irrelevant.

Edited by fowls, 09 April 2010 - 03:28 PM.