By
Amber Shaffer,
SDAM Staff Writer
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2024
SDAM.com/Amber Shaffer
Thanks to Paul Parks
for the awesome photos.
If you listen to popular radio, you've probably heard The Transplants'
song "Diamonds and Guns". Most likely your mistook it for a new, bad,
Gorillaz single when you first heard it, not the work of so-called "punk
super-group" the Transplants, which features members of Rancid and Blink
182. Not that I've ever thought much of this band, but Tim Armstrong was so
f'd up it was sad. I know it was a big deal years ago among his crowd of
friends when he sobered up. I don't even know why he bothered to have a guitar
slung over his shoulder last night.
Foo Fighters, on the other hand, were quite the surprise. I found it interesting
that they opened with "All My Life" and proceeded to play 4 more of
their biggest hits before visiting some of their lesser-known material. I
actually liked this approach, since I don't own a single Foo album and only
know their singles. Plus it really got the crowd energized. It was great to see
a band that actually plays really well together. One thing I gotta give FF, they
are masters at writing rockin' alternative songs with pop hooks. Plus
singer Dave Grohl is a funny, funny man who knows how to play to the crowd. And
how to mess with them too. In the opening part of "Breakout", right
before the big "jump around and start a pit" portion of the song
begins, they stopped cold to say hello to the audience and talk about how it had
been 7 years since they last played here. It was great. Grohl's running
joke for the evening (and keep in mind, he is the former drummer of Nirvana) was
that Taylor, the drummer, had a drum solo every third song. Pretty much true.
But they were good solo's. I'm still not going to go buy an album
since I hear plenty of FF on the radio, but they put on a stellar show. Not
quite as funny as their music videos, but close enough.
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