Foo Fighters granted a request from a fan at a recent concert in Norway to play their 1995 classic “Floaty,” but unfortunately they hadn’t rehearsed it, leading to a sloppy performance where Dave Grohl struggled to sing the song and remember the lyrics. Dave Grohl recently told a story about a brutal crowd at a show.
Grohl said, “I’m sorry, we tried, for you in the front row. It’s been 20 years.” Foo Fighters last performed the song live in 2006.
Maybe for 2020 the band can perform the self-titled album in its entirety for its 25th anniversary, and we can get a good well rehearsed version of Floaty? We’ll have to wait and see, Dave Grohl did have an idea a few years ago to re-record the album and then do a club tour in a van, before being talked out of it by his bandmates!
Dave Grohl recently discussed his bandmates having to pay him over a bet on the Bon Appetit podcast. Alternative Nation transcribed his comments.
“There was this one song, it was called Seven Corners that we had never finished. We recorded it for every record for twenty years and never finished it and I’m like: ‘Hey guys, let’s just do Seven Corners.’ Taylor [Hawkins] was like: “there is no way you will finish it” and I’m like: ‘I’ll fucking finish it.’ They promised me each a thousand dollars if I could finish it and I said: ‘I’ll fucking finish it.'”
“So I finish it. We had one more European run after that and the first day we get our per diems for that two-week long trip. That per diem for the whole trip was like, a thousand dollars. The tour manager walks in and goes: ‘Hey everybody, here is your per diem’ and Taylor was like: [snapping sound] ‘Everybody has to give their per diem to Dave because he finished Seven Corners.’ Our bass player, Nate [Mendel] was like: ‘well, I actually bought you something.'”
“When I came home there was a fucking Big Green Egg grill there.”
Setlist:
The Pretender
Learn to Fly
The Sky Is a Neighborhood
Times Like These
Rope
Drum Solo
Sunday Rain
My Hero (Dave solo into full band)
These Days
La Dee Da
Walk
Another One Bites the Dust / Blitzkrieg Bop / Cheap Sunglasses
Under Pressure (Queen cover) (Taylor on vocals, Dave on drums)
All My Life
Run
Wheels (Slow Version)
Monkey Wrench
Dirty Water
This Is a Call
Floaty (First time since 2006 – Partial)
Best of You
Everlong
