The Foo Fighters aren’t normally a band that we talk too much about around these parts. It’s not that we don’t love the witty charm of lead singer Dave Grohl, or the fact that he once sat in with Gov’t Mule, or that small fact that he was the drummer in some grunge band back in the ’90s, it’s just we don’t normally gravitate to their brand of rock music. Arguably one of the biggest mainstream rock acts in the world, the Foo Fighters may never have gotten off the ground if Grohl had accepted the position as the permanent drummer in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, which was offered to him after Nirvana disbanded in the wake of Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994.
Grohl, who had been writing and recording songs on the side during his tenure in Nirvana, decided instead to pursue making music on his own, and the rest as they say is history. Yesterday, some 16 years into their career, the multi-Grammy winning act, who made viral music videos before there even was such a term, released their seventh studio album Wasting Light. To celebrate, Foo Fighters played a 100-minute set for Live on Letterman on an Ed Sullivan Theater stage setup to look like it was 1964 and The Beatles were about to make their first appearance on U.S. television…
The Foos started the set by performing Wasting Light in its entirety before finishing with one greatest hit after another for 50 minutes.
