Back and Forth

A Foo Fighters movie?! Say what!
I was invited by my brother to this ONE NIGHT ONLY (I feel like it warranted capitals) movie, about the decade+ spanning alternative-rock band. Alright, so I'll admit that before the movie I wasn't the most diehard fan; yeah, I liked them, but in a I'll-listen-to-their-newest-single-on-the-radio way, meaning that I hadn't actively tried to listen to them. However, I figured since they'd be headlining Sasquatch in May I should find out a bit more about them.
I obviously knew they had something, since they've been around as long as I can remember, and when my brothers came home from the concert the first words out of their mouths were "We got sweat on by Dave Grohl!"...not typically a sentence that is preceded by anything than, "What the hell!?"

So it really takes the movie to get the full idea and history of this legendary band, but the gist I got was that it's essentially Dave's band. Not to say that each one of the band members (and there've been quite a few different ones over the years; technically only Grohl has been with the band throughout) doesn't contribute in leaps and bounds, but that the music really does have to get past Dave Grohl to even make it to the album. This means that even the instrumentals have to meet his criteria to a T (a quality that ended up with orginal drummer William Goldsmith leaving the band - after Grohl rerecorded all the tracks, with himself on drums instead of Goldsmith...). Of course this leads to a signature "Foo" sound. The film tells the bands story starting from their conception, the one-man-pseudonym Dave Grohl used to release songs, after the death of Kurt Cobain and split of Nirvana, Dave's former band.

There is no doubt in my mind to recommend this movie. Even though I ended going with a friend...and we got there barely in time...and had possibly the next to worst sears (front row, 3/4th from the left), the movie was still amazing (aside from sometimes seeing band members from a funny angle...). It not only show cased their musical talent, with clips from old concerts as well as the band playing their entire new album, Wasting Light, as the end of the movie, but it also showed the human side to a band that became a household name while all the while wondering "how the f--k they got there".

Speaking of Wasting Light...It was released the day before the movie release! Pick up a copy, and relish in new-Foo.