Foo Fighters and frontman Dave Grohl showed why they remain a must-see band more than 30 years later during a three-hour set at Fenway Park.
During a packed concert at Fenway Park Sunday night, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd that the band’s 2015 show at the home of the Red Sox — when a broken leg forced Grohl was to perform seated atop an ornate throne — was one of his favorite shows ever.
“I got to sit in that f****** throne, and I had a cupholder full of Jäg[ermeister], and got to f****** play guitar all night,” Grohl said.
Based on the boundless energy Grohl brought to Sunday’s set, which stretched nearly three hours, he may have been telling a little white lie.
Following similarly high-energy opening sets from The Hives and Amyl and the Sniffers, Foo Fighters opened their Fenway concert with Grohl running, stomping, and screaming through a searing seven-minute version of “All My Life.” By the time the song was over, Grohl’s black T-shirt was drenched, and his hair resembled a poodle who had been left out in the rain.
The band didn’t take a moment to rest, though, because as Grohl told the crowd, they had “thirty f****** years” of songs to get through.
On a picture-perfect evening at the ballpark, the “OG” Foo Fighters fans, as Grohl called them, had plenty to cheer about.
