In Your Honor 2005
Who: Taylor, Nate, Chris. Dave …The Foo Fighters
Where: Pacific Coliseum. Section C. Row 12. Seat 3.
When:
How much: $60
Here’s an account of the concert from a tour technician. See
The
Sloan was next with a short set. I only know two Sloan songs “Money City Maniacs” and “The Other Man” both of which sounded good. For the last song, I noticed some guy jump the barricade and run onto the floor only to be caught and thrown out by security. This was a sign of things to come.
The Foos came from behind the curtain. Great opener.
2) All My Life
Somewhat interesting song selection. They should’ve played Low instead.
4) My Hero (extended version)
Extended jam session at the end of the song. Don’t remember much about it now.
Interlude
“I’ve seen a million tits, ladies,” the Foo Fighter’s guitarist-singer announced with a grin. “You don’t need to show me yours—it’s not my birthday.”
Dave Grohl started checking other tits in the crowd before some fat hairy shirtless guy crashed the stage.
Dave: “Those are a great set of titties”
Everybody had a good chuckle at fat boy’s expense before he is dragged off stage.
5) Best of You
6) Up in Arms
8) Learn to Fly
9) The One
Unfortunately during the concert, I didn’t know this one and it’s hard to hear the melody if you’ve never heard of the song before.
I eventually found out this song is called “The One” from the
10) Stacked Actors (Extended Version)
Near the end of the song, Dave decides to take a lap around the barricade on the arena floor. Why? I’m not so sure. It’s a big security risk if you ask me and you never know when there’s a crazed knife wielding fan lurking in the shadows.
Once Dave returned to the stage,
11) Tired of You
Nate, Chris and Taylor left the stage, so Dave went solo here. Dubious song choice. A better slow song would’ve been Next Year, Walking After You, See You or anything from the In Your Honor acoustic CD.
12) Everlong
Dave went solo again. Everlong would sound great even if it was played by some monkeys, but it does sound better when played hard as opposed to soft. I was really hoping the rest of the guys would return at some point, but they never did. Boo what a shame.
13) DOA
Dave mentions something about a rotating room for the new music video. Apparently, the whole process was a pain in the ass to create.
14) Monkey Wrench
A guitar solo was inserted before the bridge.
Ah the difference between live and studio. On the album, Dave is able to growl for the 30 second bridge before unleashing a scream at the end. During the live version, Dave was definitely gasping for air near the end the bridge.
ENCORE
Half hearted crowd response.
It’s strange he says this considering the song really isn’t that country.
16) Weenie Baby
The crowd was so not into this. Probably because when Dave asked “How many of you have our first album?” there was only a smattering of responses.
Too bad they didn’t play This is a Call, I’ll Stick Around or For All of the Cows.
17) Breakout
Great song. Awful set closer.
This is the type of song that you open a concert with, not close.
Exhausted or New Way Home would’ve been good as a closer. Even Come Back might’ve worked as a closer.
Song Distribution
| Foo Fighters | 1 |
| The Colour and The Shape | 4 |
| There Is Nothing Left To Lose | 3 |
| One by One | 3 |
| In Your Honor | 5 |
| Other | 1 |
1 or 2 more songs from their debut would’ve been nice.
Other stuff
During the Foo’s set, around 10-20 people tried running onto the floor from the seats. I think only 1 or 2 guys managed to make it onto the floor while the rest of them were caught and thrown out by security. Entertaining side stuff.
Overall
Aside from some questionable choices and a shaky set list, it was a good concert. (I’m big into song placement you see).
Versus the U2 concert
This was only my second real concert ever, so my mind inevitably makes comparisons with the U2 concert:
1) The crowd seemed angrier.
2) There were a lot more hot girls.
3) There was a lot more weed.
#2 was a surprise to me. Or maybe I just had bad luck all day for the U2 concert.
Note about concerts in general
I realize now that whenever I think about the concert, my mind plays the album version of the song instead of the live version. This is even worse when I have a live version of the song because my mind will play that version instead of the one that I heard live. Even the best live song thus far (One by U2), I can barely remember
Kinda sucks really.
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8/13/2005 10:45:00 PM
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