Posts Tagged ‘Foo Fighters’

Foo Fighters, John Mayer and B.B. King To Perform At The First Grammy Nominations Concert

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

OK, so a while back we posted about the Foo Fighters consistent sucking-up-to-the-man, corporate behavior. It really isn’t that surprising coming from a band that has fallen so far, but it still sucks.  Especially since their downfall really seems to have no end in sight.

The good ‘ol Foo Fighters will be performing at the first ever Grammy Nominations concert, along with new tabloid pretty boy John Mayer and B.B. King - though I can’t really talk shit about BB since he is an undisputed blues legend - did you know he has released over 50 albums?!.  The concert will be held on Dec 3rd at Nokia: LA Live and will also be broadcast on CBS.

Hosting this sure-to-be-amazing event will be Mariah Carey, LL Cool J and Taylor Swift and the event will also coincide with the opening of the Grammy Museum in the LA Live complex.  Yes, you heard me right.  The Grammy Museum - where all Grammy award winning “artists” can be celebrated and placed on an ever-rising pedestal for the fans of mainstream music to look up to, and unfortunately emulate.

As if the Grammy Awards weren’t BS enough, they’ve now decided to stage an event just for the nominations.  I can’t help but picture a mile-long conference table in a fancy office at the top of some high rise building somewhere, lined with Armani-suit wearing, smell-their-own farts, corporate assholes and wonder to myself how they couldn’t come up with anything better.  But then I remember that even though the idea sucks, the general public will never notice as long as you dangle that invisible carrot , in this case Mariah Carey and Foo Fighters.  Which then leads me to wonder how much money Foo Fighters need to make before they stop encouraging these corporate assholes.  Ok I’ll stop with the corporate-bashing rant.  But seriously, I thought the Foos were supposed to be on hiatus, anyway.  I know I could use the break.

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Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age: Sucking Up To The Man With The BlackBerry Storm

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Sucking up to the man has been commonplace for a long time in the rock n’ roll world. However, it is still surprising for those of us who grew up as grunge babies. To see some of our heroes pandering to corporations hurts, just a little. 

Last night the Foo Fighters played their 2nd corporate function along with Queens of The Stone Age. The event was a private concert held at Los Angeles’ 1400-capacity Avalon in promotion of BlackBerry’s first touch-screen phone, the Storm. 

The fall of Dave Grohl is epic in it’s scope. He went from being the badass drummer of Nirvana and cool frontman of the Foo Fighters to becoming pretty damn lame around the late 90’s. I’d say the nail in his coffin was driven in hard when the Foo Fighters single “Learn To Fly” was released in 1999. I won’t go into too much detail here as we plan on doing a full piece on the fall of 90’s icons at some point. 

In case you don’t remember, the Foo Fighters also played the private Fallout 3 launch party in LA on October 17th. Are the Foo Fighters trying to get a bunch of money before their upcoming 18-month hiatus? How much more money do they need? Any way you slice it, it sucks. Queens of The Stone Age…well they were never really sucky or great, so I don’t think anyone really cares about their involvement. They need all the money they can get. 

Dave Grohl didn’t even play drums with QOTSA. Damn…

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