Dave Grohl discussed Foo Fighters playing a festival in the 90’s and the crowd getting a bit too rowdy. Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash recently revealed an imitation photo of one of Grohl’s greatest creations.
He told Kerrang, “I remember Björk was headlining the main stage, and maybe 45 minutes to an hour before we went on you could see the tent starting to fill up, and it was a hot day. The tent was getting more and more crowded, and the crowd around the tent was getting bigger and bigger. As we were setting up the gear I was thinking, ‘Oh God, this is going to be f**king chaos.’
I just knew it – but at that point it’s do or die, you’ve got to go for it. More people started crushing into the tent, and I remember at one point the promoter coming up to me and saying we can’t play on the side stage. He said, ‘You have to go on the main stage, after Björk.’ I said, ‘No fucking way are we going to go headline the main stage at the first legitimate show we have in the UK! I mean, I get it, I don’t want anyone to get hurt, but that’s a bit presumptuous, don’t you think?!’
“When you see the security guards starting to pass out, that’s a problem. There were people climbing up the poles and hanging from the f**king rafters, and as far as you could see it was this tight, packed wave of sweaty f**king lunatics with us just trying to get through every song. Maybe after three or four songs the promoter was on the side of the stage going, ‘You guys have to stop. Just stop!’ I turned to the audience and said, ‘I’m sorry, this guy’s telling us we have to stop,’ and there was this roar of ‘Noooo!’ And he looks at me and says (urgently) ‘Keep playing! Keep playing!’”
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds is feuding with some of the biggest names in rock, but he has at least one friend in Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who appeared happy to be with him in a recently surfaced Twitter photo.
Reynolds wrote on Instagram in February, “I’ve gotten over the fact that guys in other bands (the 1975, Foster the People, Smashing Pumpkins, Slipknot, etc.) feel a need to talk badly about my band for whatever reason. I don’t feel anger towards them actually, just more of a sadness that this industry embraces, even celebrates this mentality. I wish it felt like a place where artists stood by each other and supported one another — regardless of our different tastes and voices.”
Dan Reynolds with Christene and Dave Grohl pic.twitter.com/aVRkLLLkT4
— best of dan reynolds (@thedanpics) May 24, 2019
