Foo Fighters: As the first live with the new drummer went

The Foo Fighters have returned to the stage for theirs first live concert with the new drummer Ilan Rubin. The band led by Dave Grohl had made a surprise announcement the previous evening, on Friday 12 September, making it known that he would keep a show at Fremont Theater by San Luis ObispoCalifornia, in the following evening (Saturday 13 September). The one that staged the group of “Best of You” was therefore a intimate concert, in a place with a capacity of 900 people, who marked the first official performance of the band with Rubin, the former Nine Inch Nails drummer who joined the Foos at the beginning of this summer, replacing Josh Freese, now in force at the formation of Trent Reznor. The announcement of the evening he had fueled other hopes in the publicwhich in addition to seeing the Foo Fighters again in action, hoped in the confirmation of a new album or at least in a new single after the clues of the last few weeks. In addition, the post with which the group invited the fans to the San Luis Obispo concert included a preview of what seems to be a newly recorded or material song recorded in the past destined for new life. The announcement collected many comments, with those who underlined the Riff sound and those who hypothesized that the song used for the news could have roots in the past live sets of the band. “They played him between ‘All My Life’ in Birmingham a couple of years ago. Happy that they are about to publish it!” Wrote another fan.

Last night concert in San Luis Obispohowever, seems to have been more aself -celebration and a party For Foo Fighters, both on the occasion of their thirtieth birthday and the entry of the new battperista, rather than an opportunity to reveal news. According to what evidenced by the videos shared on the net and the lineup reported on Setlist.fm, Dave Grohl and members they retraced their history Fishing songs from the first album of the band or pieces that have not been doing in concert for some time, together with those most loved by fans, But without making great announcementslike the one hoped for and expected a new album or a new world tour. Of course, after the social activities of the last weeks, the last minute show yesterday It could only be the prologue of something more.

The beginning of the concert in San Luis Obispo is testified by the video shared by Foo Fighters themselves on their official social pages, with Dave who enters the stage first, followed by his companions. The attack was inevitably entrusted to “All my life“, the main single of the 2002 album” One by One “and for years, a piece of opening of each great concert by Grohl and members.

“Playing the Old Songs Because You Like Them Better”, “we play the old songs, you like so much more”, says the writing of the bracelets delivered to the public for the entrance – as can be seen in some images shared on various pages dedicated to the band. The ladder, in fact, fished from discs of the pastincluding “Rope” from “Wasting Light” of 2011 and the rare “Have It All” of 2002, before going through the traces of the first eponymous album Published in the name Foo Fighters in 1995, such as “Wattershed”, “This is a call”, “Alone + Easy target” and “Exhausted“, This performed as a penultimate piece of the concert surprising the fans who did not listen to her from 2014. It was not lacking” No Son of Mine “from” Medicine at Midnight “of 2021 and there were no others battle horses Of the Foo Fighters, such as “Times Like These”, “These Days”, “The Pretender”, “My Hero”, “Learn to Fly”, “Best of You” and the classic “Everlong”, with which the concerts of Grohl’s formation have been close for some time. According to the testimonies that are found for now on the net, the song published by surprise last July to celebrate 30 years of career, “Today’s Song”, did not find space in the lineup.

In the days that preceded the San Luis Obispo concert, the Foo Fighters had published a series of social posts to announce their return to the studio that seemed to see them at work on something new. Waiting to find out what their next moves will be, and after seeing them on stage for their first concert from September 2024 and with a new drummer, the only certain thing is the concert program already set for October and November in Indonesia (2 October), Singapore (4 October), Japan (7, 8 and 10 October) and Mexico City (November 14).

Here is the ladder of the concert last night:

All my life
Rope
Have It All
Times Like These
Wattershed
Stacked Actors
The goddess from
These Days
The Pretender
Walk
My Hero
Learn to Fly
Rescued
Aurora
This is a call
No are of mine
Shame Shame
White Limo
Winnebago – Late cover!

Best of You

Encore

Alone + Easy Target
Low
Monkey Wrench
Exhausted
Everlong