  Last night I saw the Foo Fighters in Cleveland. It was a rocking show. I attended the show with my brother John and my friends Fred and Dave. The first opening band was some ball buster crappy one that I care not to find out the name of. The second band was a band called Chevelle. They were a heavier band, but the dudes in it looked like a bunch of Abercrombie kids. They began each song with a stupid phrase like "This is about being true to yourself.
" Then they would bust out some heavy riffs and incoherent lyrics. I wasn't too impressed. During Chevelle's set, John left to go farther away from the stage. When I asked him why he did this, he said, "I don't want to stand here like the rest of these @#%$ drones listening to a bunch of guys that have IQ's lower than Shadow (our dog). " I told him that he wouldn't be able to get up this close once he leaves, but that didn't bother him. Anyway, the foo fighters kicked ass. Dave Grohl told us that he was born in Warren, OH. That was something I did not know. So Ohio was him home state. Yeah and he had a lot of funny interludes in between each song. Before playing, "For all the Cows" he did a long little speech about how a lot of his family was here and Uncle Jesse requested this song or something like that. But what was funnier was when he pulled his guitar tech out on stage and had everyone sing happy birthday to him.
And then he said that they got him a male stripper who was a cop and was "packing heat, if you know what I mean" When I got home and checked foofighters.com there actually was a picture of the guitar tech with a male stripper in a thong on top of him. Kinda funny. Ok, back to the show. So Dave Grohl is funny to see live because he screams at the top of his lung almost all the verses and all the songs.
Or he will say something like, "ok, here we go!!!!!! " before the verse. Taylor Hawkins was pretty impressive on drums, I always held it against him for being Alanis MOrissette's drummer, but he played well. the other two guys in the band (Nate MEndell, bass) and Chris Shifflet (guitar, i don't know if i spelled it right) were just there.
They weren't really as charasmatic as dave grohl and taylor. Then we drove home from cleveland. we tried to find a place to eat off the 90, but at each exit everything was closed. we ended up stopping at this crappy gas station and I bought $10 worth of beef jerky. Then like an hour later we found a sweet gas station with an all night Subway shop, but it was too late because I already ate the beef jerky. Fred and Dave managed to find room for subs. We didn't get home until 4 am but it was worth it. 
