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Foo Fighters Make Up for Weather-Shortened Set With High-Energy, Jam-Heavy New York Show
Foo Fighters played a lengthy show in Queens full of rock history, new songs and Dave Grohl's headbanging.
Foo Fighters opened their Friday night encore at Citi Field in Queens with the penultimate track from their most recent album, the 10-minute plus “The Teacher.” The song is a bit of an outlier for the group, with frontman Dave Grohl favoring a Gibson double neck for the proggy journey. While the song is dedicated to both his late mother (a teacher) and l ate former Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins, the title could easily apply to Grohl’s current approach to live shows: A rock ‘n’ roll professor sharing everything he knows about the craft in one blowout three-hour class. Grohl, Freese and the rest of the band — guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Nate Mendel, guitarist Chris Shiflett and keyboardist Rami Jaffee — played a well-orchestrated setlist filled with the arena-ready hits (“Times Like These,” “Learn to Fly,” “All My Life”) and some deeper cuts for fans (“Arlandria,” “Generator,” first ever single “This Is a Call.”) Smartly, the group limited new material to heavy tracks that allowed the energy to stay elevated — after all, audiences aren’t going to head to the bathroom if Grohl is headbanging and screaming his head off, even if they don’t know the lyrics.
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