Foo Fighters played at Hyde Park in London in June 2006, and Dave Grohl was cooking backstage before his Backbeat BBQ days, and sadly he smelled disgusting because of it just before he was set to go onstage!
Grohl told Kerrang, “The great thing about that day was we got to pick the bill. So, we called all our friends – Queens [Of The Stone Age], Motörhead, Juliette Lewis was there, Angels & Airwaves. To me, it was like a party. It was like inviting a bunch of people to a barbecue, where I was literally barbecuing for everybody backstage before the show. When I went out to do that gig I smelled like a fucking cheeseburger. I’d been cooking all day. ‘Dave, you’re on in 20 minutes’ – ‘Okay, okay, I’m still flipping burgers!’
“At that point, the size of an audience was not as important as the atmosphere, or the energy in the audience. At this point in my life I don’t care how many people are out there; that doesn’t bother me. It’s what we do together. If it’s a club with 120 people, or if it’s a field with 120,000 people, none of that bothers me. It’s how we interact and what happens in the next two and a half hours. Something like Hyde Park, when you do a gig like that, we basically put that show on ourselves – all of the staging, all of the vendors, not unlike when I was a kid when I was putting on little community centre shows. This was a much larger version of that. There’s a sense of responsibility, but then there’s also this sense of pride that you can do something like that, and bring that sort of pleasure to that many people.”
Croatia Week wrote about a recent Foo Fighters show and published awesome photos, “One of the biggest rock bands in the last 20 years, Foo Fighters, led by a sweat-drenched Dave Grohl, entertained the crowd of 7,000 people tonight ar Pula’a Roman Amphitheatre, playing a host of their classic hits like All My Life, Learn to Fly and The Pretender to the delight of the fans who turned out.
The show at Pula Arena kicked off with openers Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes getting the party started before Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee took to the stage just after 9 pm.”
