Re: ****Official Foo Fighters Appreciation Thread****
Just posted this in Covid thread too - if it's only allowed to be in 1 place, please leave it there and erase this one. I was more posting because the Club's Vax check process was best I've seen so far, but thought Foo fans might also appreciate this too:
2 nights ago I did something I definitely didn't feel ready to do and wouldn't have chosen to do but getting through to buy a ticket made it a "Well, go and see how it feels, you can always leave if it feels wrong" thing.
I was on a work zoom Wed and looked at my personal email and saw "Foo Fighters at 9:30 Club onsale NOW!" and was like "WTF?! 1200 person venue??" and spent the rest of my mtg looking REALLY engaged and busy in our work but really on ticketron trying to find a ticket. And I did.
This also coincided with my 1st mandatory in-person work event, which we didn't get out of until 7:45pm Thurs night, so I thought for sure I missed the start of Foos show because doors were 6:30, no opener, and I walked up at 8:25pm. But not onstage yet.
Gotta hand it to 9:30 Club, they had BEST vax check of shows I've been to so far. This was my FIFTH concert/event since July (counting Newport Folk Fest as 1 event though multiple days) but all theo thers were either outdoors (which I'm fine with) or the Roots was indoors but only 1/2 sold and everyone could spread out and ushers were MASK POLICE and even got on people who were wearing masks but below nose "Please put your mask over your nose sir!" so that felt fine too.
THIS was 1200 people jammed into a GA club, and I'm short, so could not imagine where I Could stand, see, and NOT be all up against sweaty psyched strangers.
But when you walked up, 1st you got directed to Vax checkers and they looked at your vax card (screenshot) AND your i.d. at same time to confirm same names and birthdays. Then you got a wristband adn only THEN could you go to different line and pick up ticket, then you had to immediately go into venue. No selling your ticket or passing it to somene else, yo uhad to have wristaband AND ticket to get in. That made me feel a lot better.
Then miraculously found a gaping hole on stairs between 1st balcony & 2nd balcony, PERFECT view of full stage and they let us stay on one side of stairs the whole night, so no one right up on me AT ALL all night. Got in position at 8:35, they went on at 8:41!
And even though I checked setlists and except for 1 song it was exact same setlist from most shows so far on this tour, IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING AND SO WORTH BEING THERE FOR! Plus Grohl's stories were all DC stories, and he pointed out historical music figures in audience a couple of times, and though there were some songs the band looked kinda like "yeah we've played this song 8,000 times", there were many songs where stuff that happened or solos or just the audience made the band go nuts too, and that was awesome as well.
The joy, the pent up energy, the release, the mental stress & mania, and the gratefulness were all TANGIBLE. Sang, screamed and danced my ass off, and honestly I"m not even a major major Foo Fighters fan, though I saw their 1st tour with Mike Watt and Eddie Vedder's wife's band so been following them from the beginning (seen them MANY times and met Grohl many times). It was amazing. It'll probably be awhile before I see a show that great and intense, so I guess I'm ready, bring on the club shows if the vax check in process is as good as it can be!
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