With the incandescent Josh Freese, Dave Grohl avenges rock in the name of old festivals and plays a longer show at The Town
Perhaps it was the first time at a festival that the attention was more focused on the drummer than on the singer himself. Josh Freese: studio musician, 50 years old, son of the conductor of a Disneyland band, Freese gave his first rehearsal in front of the Brazilians on Saturday evening, the 9th, together with the Foo Fighters. The chair he occupied is expensive: there, for 23 years, from 1997 to 2022, whoever sat there was Taylor Hawkins, one of the most virtuoso drummers in rock.
The death of Hawkins, also 50, premature, tragic and on the eve of a show in Brazil (at Lollapalooza in 2022), left fans shocked and apprehensive. After all, what would the band be without Hawkins’ powerful right hand? Will it be the same Foo Fighters (who once had their leader, Dave Grohl, on drums)?
At 11pm sharp at The Town, these questions began to be answered, precisely by Freese’s drums. A thunderous guitar solo from Grohl for the entrance All my life. A lot of pressure, as if they were collapsing a steel wall together.
“All my life” @foofighters breaking everything! The stage #HORIZON It’s all theirs!
#FooFightersNoMultishow #TheTown2023NoMultishow pic.twitter.com/I4pxkBS3F2
— Multishow (@multishow) September 10, 2023
In The pretender, It was already possible to perceive a sort of reconnection with a type of festival that no longer exists, a rock and roll that seems to be losing its place since the emergence of a new generation linked to rap and soul. Foo Fighters feels like redemption.
The anger of “good people” Dave Grohl brings this encouragement into the introduction of No son of mine, and throughout its immense journey, with a devastating part by Freese when he attacks the bass drum with two stormy pedals. But, detail, why should the public be so static? Why shouldn’t they hear it? No, but maybe because everyone had their cell phones raised in the air.
Then the night warms up in a pop memory of the 90s where not everything was broken. Walk, in moments like these, beneath you. There is a place that the children of grunge have created and which only they can access. A balance between the sweet and the loud, the melodic and the irascible, transgression and the most absolute conservatism. Right after a riff with two tons of pressure, Dave Grohl can sing a tune that would put your daughter to sleep. Nothing in this world is very linear.
He speaks to the audience only after the fifth or sixth song, and with it takes the show in another direction Times like these, with beautiful input done with keyboard and voice. Everything will go up in flames at any moment, the audience realizes, as Freese implodes Grohl’s romance.
“Times Like These” Who doesn’t sing along with @foofighters at the top of your lungs it’s crazy!#HORIZON #FooFightersNoMultishow #TheTown2023NoMultishow pic.twitter.com/VaKdEHgwaq
— Multishow (@multishow) September 10, 2023
The Skyline stage floor space has a poor layout. It starts wide at the edge of the stage and begins to get thinner and thinner, making it almost impossible to share the more distant spaces. His logic is reversed. Those further from the stage tighten more than those in front. When this crowd needs to leave, the funnel keeps everyone back.
But unlike the other shows, no one seemed to want to leave Skyline while Grohl was there. Freese had all of Hawkins’ space and maybe even a little more. When Grohl introduced him he received a long round of applause, more than the other members.
It was clear that they approved of it and at the same time they also applauded Taylor Hawkins. He simply wasn’t more moving than the homage to Hawkins, which Grohl would come up with Aurora.
My hero he made people sing together as long as possible, before more violent things like This is a calling, the sky is a neighborhood AND Shame shame. An hour and a half of the show had already passed and the forecast called for nine more songs. It ended at more than two hours in length, the longest show of the festival so far.
Source: Terra
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