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...DAVE GROHL IS A BIG TEASE. With a mop of dark shaggy hair covering his face and tight black pants hardly masking his ultra slender body, the leader of the Foo Fighters recently wowed a packed crowd at the Worcester Palladium with both his onstage antics and his immense musical prowess. For over an hour, the band-featuring Grohl on guitar and vocals and occasionally drums, Nate Mendel on bass, Taylor Hawkins on drums and guitarist Chris Shiflett along for the nationwide tour-rocked hard, splicing and dicing most of the songs from their 1999 album, There is Nothing Left...
...Grohl's hyperactivity and brashness onstage prove that he has come a long way from his Nirvana days as the shy one behind both the drum kit and Kurt Cobain's immense shadow. Though Grohl hardly revealed his face from behind his shaggy layers during the 80-minute jamfest, there was no question that this was his show. It was his drum kit raised high on a platform above the stage. It was he who dove into the crowd and returned onstage, not with a pretty young groupie, but with a decidedly troll-like looking man of at least...
...Fighters followed Queens of the Stone Age, who played a 50-minute set admirable for its instrumental layering, but lacking in any real melodic structure-a perfect point of departure for Grohl and his boys. The Queens' simple black curtain background was replaced by the Foo Fighters' somewhat whimsical setup of two drum kits, five white boxes suspended in the air for reflecting lights and lasers and bouquets of flowers scattered about the stage. The somewhat tepid crowd immediately warmed up when the Foo Fighters burst onstage with "Stacked Actors," a guitar-heavy power ballad bemoaning the superficiality...
...becoming increasingly polarized between the catchy, navely sexual tunes of Britney and Christina and the unabashed rage of Eminem and Limp Bizkit, it is nice to know there are still a few rock bands out there to fill the middle ground. The Foo Fighters, under the direction of Dave Grohl, have managed to update their sound in tune with the times on each of their three releases. Their most recent album, There is Nothing Left to Lose, was a fusion of their trademark four-chord power punk with plaintive melodies and actual singing. "This is the album of which...
...alternative music veteran, Dave Grohl's story is perfect fodder for a "VH1: Behind the Music" special. (Indeed, GQ did a fashion spread with Grohl that parodied that much-maligned TV series.) Born in Ohio and raised in Virginia, Grohl splashed onto the Seattle grunge scene as the drummer for Nirvana on the group's legendary album, Nevermind, and became known as the "cheerful" member of the band. His mutually antagonistic relationship with Kurt Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, has been well documented. A year after Cobain's suicide, Grohl released the Foo Fighters' first album-a guitar-heavy jamfest...