The Foo Fighters played in Nashville last week. It was a long time coming after the tickets went on sale and sold out almost an entire year ago.
But I missed the show. I was out of town.
I talked with a bunch of people who went though. They all said it was absolutely, completely, insanely awesome. The reason all of them gave…
Dave.
He’s the man.
He commands all the attention.
He knows what to do with it.
Even after Dave Grohl broke his leg a few months ago and now sits down the whole time on a giant rock n roll throne…he’s still the man. And the band is still selling out arenas everywhere.
And I haven’t heard of one single person asking for their money back because Dave wasn’t running all over the stage like usual.
The show sold out a year ago. Dave broke his leg and is sitting down. Everyone still came and had the night of their lives.
Don’t get me wrong, all the other dudes in the band are important too. But 25,000 people a night come to see Uncle Dave.
(The truth is that Dave needs the other guys in the band to support and fuel him and then he fuels and supports the audience.)
To put it tritely…there’s just something about Dave.
But then again, there’s just something about Dave when he isn’t in front of 25,000 people too.
He’s pretty much always THAT guy who everyone likes, everyone wants to be around. And even though he says the F-swear a lot, Moms even think he’s ok.
He just cranks up these knobs when he is, in fact, on stage…not becoming a new person, just an amped up version for a couple of hours of who he already is.
Dave gets it. He knows what to do, how to do it and why to do it.
Do you?
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