Foo Fighters nail the 11 November, 2011, Verizon Centre concert and it was a sell out

Foo Fighters nail the 11 November, 2011, Verizon Centre concert and it was a sell out

If the Foo Fighters were to place pins on a map to track their geographical lineage, Washington, DC and the surrounding area would get an awful lot of attention. Dave Grohl specifically was raised in Springfield, Virginia, a suburb of the nation’s capital,
and the band would later record Grammy award-winning tracks from a basement in Alexandria. And so their show Friday night at the home of the Washington Capitals was more than just a flawless arena rock show. It was a sprawling three-hour homecoming brimming
with vitality and gratitude.

At the Verizon Center, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters showed that their alt-rock energy hasn’t dissipated.

The band beefed up its best tunes with expansive, guitar-solo-heavy arrangements, draw­ing out four-minute radio-ready nuggets such as “Monkey Wrench” into ecstatic crescendos. The extra space helped them work the room, supplying extra minutes for Grohl
to bound across the stage like Ted Nugent in a fiery loincloth.

There can’t be many items left for Dave Grohl to scratch off of his rock-and-roll bucket list. The Springfield-raised musician has been a prime-time MTV fixture since his early 20s, first as drummer for grunge titans Nirvana, then as frontman for his alt-rock
band, Foo Fighters.

But, Grohl explained to a capacity crowd at the Verizon Center on Friday night, “this is the first time I’ve sold out the big arena in my home town.” And he promised that the Foo Fighters would perform “every song that we know how to play.” They didn’t quite
go that far, but they did deliver a three-hour set peppered with their strongest singles. 

This year marks the 20th anniversary and rerelease of Nirvana’s greatest and greatest-selling record, “Nevermind,” stoking a wave of early ’90s nostalgia. The Foo Fighters’ most recent record, “Wasting Light,” was recorded with “Nevermind” producer Butch
Vig and features contributions from Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic. But the Foo Fighters have never been a Nirvana sound-alike. As a songwriter, Grohl quickly abandoned grunge, forging his own style of music that owes as much to D.C.’s home-grown punk scene
as it does to the Seattle sound of the early ’90s.

Grohl’s biggest rock-and-roll asset is that he’s so likable. He’s a local boy made good — a high school dropout turned superstar who approaches his job with unchecked vitality, even though he’s been making platinum records since the first Bush administration.

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