Hello, welcome back to another episode of Broken Record. I'm Ellie. I'm your host and today we're going to be talking about the Foo Fighters and Death Cab for QD concert. So this past weekend, not weekend week actually, I went to the Foo Fighters, the Foo Fighters Death Cab for QD concert with my dad.
It was in Climate Pledge Arena, which is the new arena for Seattle. It took place of Key Arena, which was there for quite a long time. But now it's Climate Pledge. It was super duper clean.
Like, I mean, obviously it was clean because, so this was like the first event they had. It wasn't technically their opening because this was a charity event. And so, there's this whole big drama. But basically Coldplay was set to do the grand opening of Climate Pledge Arena.
And then Dave Brole, who's in Foo Fighters, was like, I want to open Climate Pledge Arena. And Climate Pledge Arena was like, no, we already signed a contract with Coldplay saying that they could be the grand openers. And then Dave Brole was like, well, what if I do a charity event? And then, well, a charity event for free.
And then the Climate Pledge Arena was like, okay, so technically it was a private event, but they were taking it open to the public. But like, going down in history, Coldplay would probably be known as the first concert, but Foo Fighters was really the first concert. I like to believe so. Anyway, so let's just do a quick background in case you don't know who Foo Fighters and Death Cab for QDOR.
Foo Fighters was formed by Dave Brole, who was in Nirvana. Seattle, they aren't quite popular. They are mainly like rock and roll. And so Dave Brole played the drums in Nirvana, which is interesting because he plays the guitar in Foo Fighters, which is super cool because I want to learn.
I want to know how to play both the guitar and drums. Anyway, it's, so Foo Fighters members are Dave Brole, who plays the guitar. Taylor Hawkins, who plays the drums. Pat Smir, who plays the rhythm guitar.
Chris Schiflet, who he doesn't sing, he does the lead guitar. Nate Mandel, who does bass guitar. Fran Stahl, who does the lead guitar as well. Rami Jaffi, who plays the organ.
And William Goldsmith, who does the drums. And that's a lot of people for a band. That's a lot more than I felt like a stall on stage. But they were all there.
I don't know why they wouldn't be there. Anyway, yeah, that's who's in the band. I'm sorry if I said their names wrong. I kind of were to pronounce.
Yeah. And then Death Cab for QD, who opened for Foo Fighters, has Ben Gibbard, who plays the piano. Nick Harmer, who does guitar. Dave Depper, who does guitar.
Jason McGear, who does drums. Chris Walla, who does piano. And then Nick, Nick, Nathan Good, Michael Skor, and Zach Ray are also in the band. And so, yeah, those are the members.
I'll be talking about a lot of them, mainly Dave and Taylor, who is the guitarist who's in Nirvana for Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins is the drummer for Foo Fighters. And so, those are who I will probably be talking about the most. Anyway, we got to the venue at like, what, 730? Not 730, because the concert started at 730.
No, I think I actually think we got there at 730, because we got, no, we got there like five minutes before 730, because we were going to, we got there on time. And then, there's just a whole mess of getting in, because to get in, you had to have the Clear App, and then you had to like have your vaccination card in the Clear App, and I'm a minor. So, I thought that I couldn't do it in the Clear App, because you have to be an adult to have Clear Membership. And so, it was just a whole long thing, and I had to walk around the venue to get a stay up on my wrist.
That says, I am vaccinated, I just don't have the Clear App. And then we had to go all the way back to our entrance, because there was like specific entrances for different parts of the stadium, which was kind of annoying, but it made sense. In the end, we got there as like, one Death Cab for QD had like two songs left, three songs left, I don't know. So, speaking of songs, here is one of the Death Cab for QD songs that was played.
Yeah, that was that song from Death Cab for QD. I always get nervous when I say Death Cab for QD, because whenever I'm around my dad, he says Death Cab, and like his friends say Death Cab too, but then I don't know if like, they're just saying that because like they, because like they grew up with it, or well, they didn't grow up with it, but like they were, they were like in their prime, or if it's just like, calm into say Death Cab, and then I don't know if I, I can say Death Cab for QD, or if it's just like a, you were into them when they were a thing, kind of thing. I don't know, it's a whole big cycle that I have that I go through. Yeah, they sang for about 45 minutes, I'm guessing.
If they went out at 730, which I'm assuming they did, because we could hear them around 730, like outside the venue, because it was really loud. Yeah, they sang for about 45 minutes. They were super good. They were, they were very parking mark, which if you don't know what that means, that's a term where like you're like singing a song or you're playing an instrument or whatever, and you're staying in one spot and sing it, and you're just kind of singing it out, or you play it out or whatever, and you don't really move around.
And so I kind of got that vibe from them. They were great performers, they just didn't move around a lot, which some people really enjoy, and some people don't. It's definitely easier for videoing. Like if you video something on your phone, you don't have to worry about like chasing them with the camera.
I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay, anyway, after they were done, there was like a half hour 15 minute break in between Death Cab and Foo Fighters, and so after that, after that break, Foo Fighters went on. And when they came on, it was so cool. There was literally two minutes of just applause.
Like literally, they walked on stage, there was a plot as they were walking on, there was a plot as they were getting set up, there was a plot like Dave Girl, who was the lead singer and guitarist, like walked around the stage and he was getting a plot, it was so cool. Literally two minutes straight of just applause. Like, like how cool is that? So cool.
Yeah, so here's their opening song. So if you couldn't tell on that clip, it was quite loud at the concert. Me and my dad were with a group of his friends and we were all in the pit, and we were in this like perfect spot where the speakers hit us from both angles, and it was just quite loud. And I thought that was out, but then I went to go to the bathroom and on my way back, I was in the hallway and listen to this clip I took.
It's just so loud. It sounds like I'm right in front of it, but I'm not. I'm like far away. So listen to this.
Yeah, so hopefully you can tell how loud it is now. The next song that I'm going to play clip from is called My Hero, and I'm not going to lie, I came into this concert not knowing a lot of songs. And I think this is one of my favorite songs that I heard for the first time. If not in general from them, it's loosely, Dave Girl wrote it and Dave Girl was in Nirvana.
And this song is loosely based off of Kurt Cobain, who died from the band. He was in Nirvana as well. So this song is kind of like Dave Girl said it was about more everyday heroes that are ordinary and not necessarily superstars or soccer players or singers or actors or whoever a famous figure might be that would be your hero. This is kind of like the ordinary, like everyday people type of hero.
So here's a clip from that. Yeah, that's it. I like that song. And just because I really like it and I want to hear it again, I'm going to play a clip that was from in the middle of the song.
Towards the end where the crowd took over, Dave had the crowd sing the chorus and it was really cool. I love moments in concerts where the artists stopped singing and then it's just the crowd singing because it's this whole big chorus of people who are there enjoying the music that they love. I don't know, it's hard to explain it, but I really like listening to crowds and concerts. So here is a clip of the crowd singing My Hero and then Dave's running after.
Yeah, I love that song. Another song that really stuck out to me and that I liked, it's called Times Like These. It's kind of a song or song if you listen to the lyrics and it was played very well. It was played very passionately and emotionally, but like not emotionally is in like sad, but like it was just, you could tell that like the emotions were real and raw and stuff.
And so this is the song's kind of about like feeling stuff. I guess one of the lyrics is One Way Motorway or One of the phrases in the songs One Way Motorway. And this is kind of like the motorway being life and one way being like it only moves one direction and only moves one direction like the band. Anyway, anyway, it only moves one direction and only you can only go.
Like you have one path that you have to follow and this is, I guess, Dave was kind of feeling like maybe he didn't want to take that path anymore or he was just having trouble like seeing if he could take another path. I don't know, but here's a clip from that. Yeah, I like that song. The next time I want to talk about it is called This Is a Call.
It was written and released closely following Kurt Cobain's death and then Dave Rol said that he purposely made these verses like kind of nonsense. Like they didn't make any sense because he had so much to express that like he just like that was kind of like how he was feeling. Like it was just a bunch of like chaos in his mind. So he's a clip from that.
Yeah, the next time I want to talk about what's called You Should Be Dancing, which is a popular 70 song by the Bee Gees. And Foo Fighters are doing this thing where they're going by the DGs, which is an odd to Dave Girls initials, DG, and their Foo Fighters released an album that takes inspiration from the Bee Gees including covers from four of their songs. One of the songs that they covered is You Should Be Dancing, what's they saying at the concert I went to, which was cool. It like really felt like a 70s concert.
It was cool. So he was a clip from the... Okay, now you know that Foo Fighters is an awesome band and they are pretty darn cool. And so now I want to talk about the instrumentalists on the band because they're pretty darn good.
So the first one I want to talk about is the guitarist whose name is Chris Shiffley, I believe. And he is quite impressive. During every concert the lead singer introduces the band. And so during the introduction period Chris did this outstanding guitar solo.
And so here's a clip from that. So as you can tell he's pretty good. He's pretty good. I want to talk about Dave Grollnett, who is...
you may think he's the guitarist for Foo Fighters. And you're right. But he's also a drum player. And he was the drum player for Nirvana.
And during the introductions period after Taylor Hawkins was introduced, Taylor got up and came to the front of the stage while Dave went to the drum set and kind of switched places. And Dave started playing the drums. And he was so good. It was so impressive.
It was quite insane. And so he was doing triplets or something. And it was so impressive. I can't move my hand that fast.
I don't know. It was so cool. So here's a clip of Dave Groll playing the drums. That's from going down the squids this night.
Come on in. As you can tell Dave Groll is a great drummer. Yeah. So that was such a good concert.
I was very happy I went to it. It totally felt like a concert from the 2000s where no one was really on their phones. No one was like everyone was just in the moment. I don't know how to explain it because I've never been to a concert in the 2000s.
But I just got that vibe. If I went to that concert, I could believe that it took place in the 2000s. This probably isn't making any sense. But you just got that vibe.
You know when you go somewhere and you're like, whoa, this makes me feel like I'm in the 1800s. Or this makes me feel like I'm in the future. That's kind of what I felt only 10 years back. 20 years back.
Yeah. So that didn't make any sense. But it was a great concert. Really recommended it.
The venue. Great. Climate pledge arena. That was the first event there.
So obviously it was really clean, which was kind of weird because whenever you think of arenas, they're always dirty or they're like used. Obviously they're used. But you could just tell that people have been there before. And this one, it was so clean.
It was so clean. It was so nice. There was no graffiti. There was no stickers.
There was no trash. It was so cool. They also had a lot of good food venues there. Not that news, but like stands or whatever.
They had dintai fun there, which was random. But I love it. They had Amazon Go stations, which are like the thing where like when you enter the store, you like give them your Amazon account and then you just pick up things and then you leave the store without paying because like the scanners, like there's like a scanner on the exit and then it scans all the things in your basket. I don't know.
I don't really understand it, but I know you don't pay and it just charges your Amazon account. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. Two or three questions about that. They also a dollar pizza in Metropolitan Grill. They had a really cool mac and cheese place.
I forget what it was called, but it looked really yummy. Something I would like to be improved was that there wasn't a lot of merch booths. I think I saw two total from all the arena I went to. I was through half of the arena.
When I was in the hallway, I walked from where I entered to the opposite side. If that makes sense, I covered half of the walkway, and I only saw two, which was kind of sad. They were like shocked. It wasn't missing anything.
It just was disappointing. I feel like they would be more frequent, but it was cool. They were selling vinyls at the concert, which I find really interesting because before COVID, I feel like I never really saw people selling vinyls at concerts. I don't know if I just missed it or it wasn't happening, but at this concert, they were selling vinyls from all their albums too, which not all their albums, but most of their albums.
I just found that so bizarre because it's a concert and you have to carry that around. I'm not disneying vinyls, by the way. I absolutely adore them. I have a huge collection, which I'll talk about in a future episode.
But yeah, they were selling vinyls. They were selling choosies. They had sweatshirts and crewnecks and shirts and tanktocks. Not tanktocks.
Tanktops. It was really good. I liked it. I got a sweatshirt.
That was yellow, and it says Foo Fighters on it. And then I got a shirt that was like, D.G.'s inspired. Like, I don't know how to explain it, but it was cool. I like it.
Yeah, it was a great concert. I recommend seeing them as I come again. Oh, speaking of Foo Fighters, because that's what this whole episode is about. They're getting inducted into the Hall of Fame, like this week.
I pop McCartney too, which is insane. I want to be Paul McCartney. Yeah, they're getting inducted into Hall of Fame. So that was like their last performance before they were getting inducted, which is super cool to think about.
I mean, that's awesome. Like, you're in the Hall of Fame now, dude. That's so cool. Yeah, thanks for listening.
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