| Concert Review of Foo Fighters at Smirnoff Music Centre on Thu Sep 15, 2005 |
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| Thu Sep 15, 2005 |
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| Dallas Morning News |
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| Review: Foo Fighters, Weezer at their best onstage at Smirnoff 12:45 AM CDT on Friday, September 16, 2005 By PARRY GETTELMAN / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Weezer and Foo Fighters made for an odd, but not unsuccessful, double feature at Smirnoff Music Centre on Thursday night. Weezer is as light and innocuous as a sitcom, while Foo Fighters offer heavy drama with bouts of comic relief. Still, there's definite crossover between their audiences – some of the same people who formed cute letter Ws with their fingers during Weezer's set were giving the heavy-metal sign during Foo Fighters'. The bands also share a prominent trait: both are better live than on recordings. Weezer's studio work is often polished to a degree that disguises one of its chief assets: the bar-band undertow lurking beneath its poppy surface. Frontman Rivers Cuomo has a strong voice that sounded just as good onstage as over the car radio, and the band's tunes have a decidedly bouncy bent, often garnished by sweet harmony vocals. But the rhythm section is more rock 'n' roll. Drummer Patrick Wilson drove the whole outfit with a winning combination of technical finesse, imagination and power. "My Name Is Jonas," "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So" all gained more heft Thursday. Weezer took a chance with its big hit "Undone – the Sweater Song," selecting an audience member to play the acoustic-guitar part. Fortunately, the band's choice acquitted himself admirably, with a little coaching on the need to face Mr. Wilson to get the cue for the big ending. Foo Fighters' latest release, In Your Honor, suffers from a certain degree of monotony, divided as it is into one CD of hard rock and one of more pensive material. The band mixed moods and tempos more deftly Thursday, and frontman Dave Grohl also frequently offered humorous banter as a respite from pummeling new numbers such as "In Your Honor," "Best of You" and "The Last Song." Mr. Grohl joked about his preferred method of vocalizing – screaming, promising that he didn't need to hold back because he was about to start a 12-day vacation. He joked that Weezer had asked his permission to do a Foo Fighters song, and he turned them down cold – because Foo Fighters couldn't do one of Weezer's songs, as "They're too complicated." And he introduced a raging cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Born on the Bayou" by explaining that Foo Fighters had played it on the recent Red Cross television benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. . |
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