Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 | 2 a.m.
Three decades aft Foo Fighters began arsenic Dave Grohl’s post-Nirvana project, the set inactive approaches its concerts with the appetite of a bare nine act.
At Allegiant Stadium, the last halt connected the North American limb of the band’s “Take Cover Tour,” Grohl and his 5 bandmates enactment connected a two-hour, 50-minute, 25-song stone ’n’ rotation marathon: loud, loose, funny, occasionally sentimental and packed with the benignant of hits that tin crook a cavernous stadium into a wide sing-along.
Grohl, 57, has a small grey successful his beard now. But determination was small grounds of reduced vigor from the longtime frontman, who spent overmuch of the Sept. 26 amusement racing crossed the stage, throwing his agelong hairsbreadth with the beat, shouting himself hoarse and moving astir each country of a accumulation built for the venue’s scale. A monolithic LED surface roseate down the group, flanked by gangly video towers, portion an extended catwalk led to a smaller B signifier heavy into the level audience.
The six Foo Fighters — Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, keyboardist Rami Jaffee and drummer Ilan Rubin — did not request overmuch clip to found their intentions. The amusement began with “All My Life,” past barreled into “The Pretender,” “Times Like These” and “Rope.”
By “The Pretender,” Grohl had already handed overmuch of the vocal enactment to the crowd.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we came present contiguous to bring you immoderate (expletive) stone ’n’ rotation music, OK?” helium said aft the song’s bridge. “We came present to springiness you immoderate stone ’n’ roll. Do you emotion stone ’n’ roll?”
The answer, delivered successful a stadium-sized roar, was obvious.
Foo Fighters’ large unrecorded vantage has ever been a catalog that lets the set determination betwixt blunt-force rockers and songs built for communal release. Saturday’s acceptable drew from crossed the band’s history, from the self-titled 1995 debut’s “This Is a Call” to aboriginal standards including “My Hero,” “Learn to Fly,” “Walk,” “Best of You” and “Everlong.” The setlist besides included “No Son of Mine,” implicit with a snippet of Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” and the heavy chopped “Aurora.” That breadth became a moving gag for Grohl aft the immense assemblage sing-along for “Learn to Fly.”
“If you haven’t noticed, we don’t similar to instrumentality excessively galore breaks betwixt songs,” helium said. “We gotta compression this (stuff) in. Thirty-one years. We got a batch of (expletive) songs. You privation america to play each the (expletive) songs? I judge they telephone that, successful this city, a residency.”
The assemblage cheered astatine the idea, but Grohl had different plan: “Tonight, we’re going to play songs from each those years.”
The remark nicely captured the show’s appeal. The assemblage included longtime Foo Fighters faithful who person followed the radical since its mid-1990s beginnings and younger fans getting their archetypal unrecorded acquisition successful what a stadium stone amusement tin be. Grohl made that disagreement portion of the fun, asking who had seen the set earlier and who had not.
“I’m aft you,” helium told the newcomers. “You’re my people demographic.”
Then came “These Days,” a opus older fans could sing on with — or, arsenic Grohl enactment it, a opus the newer procreation could larn by watching “your (expletive) dada singing” beside them.
The concert’s mediate conception enactment the band’s range, and its consciousness of occasion, into sharper focus. After 11 songs connected the main stage, Foo Fighters moved down the catwalk to the B signifier for 4 songs, including the acoustic-leaning “Wheels.” Grohl joked that the opus was “only fashionable successful Germany” earlier opening it, past noted helium was singing it astatine the biggest amusement the set had played successful Las Vegas.
The B-stage conception besides included “Big Me,” a solo “Under You” by Grohl and “Marigold,” a opus helium archetypal released successful 1992 nether the pseudonym Late! Grohl dedicated “Marigold” to Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who helium said was successful the assemblage and would articulation him successful accepting MTV’s Video Vanguard Award. Smear lit and smoked a cigaret — a spot of stone ’n’ rotation theatre that seemed particularly on-brand for a instrumentalist who has spent decades making punk-rooted irreverence look effortless. He repeated the determination Sunday astatine the MTV Video Music Awards portion the 3 accepted the award.
The amusement besides recovered a astute alternate to the accustomed drawn-out set introductions. Grohl said helium was “contractually obligated” to present his friends. The introductions came arsenic snippets of songs from members’ earlier bands alternatively of accepted solos: “Invincible,” “Seven,” “One Headlight,” “Manimal” and “Tap Dancing successful a Minefield.”
The astir striking infinitesimal came erstwhile Rubin near his drum kit to prime up a guitar and Grohl, who famously played drums successful Nirvana from 1990 until the set ended aft Kurt Cobain’s decease successful April 1994, took the sticks for “Tap Dancing successful a Minefield,” a opus by Rubin’s solo project, The New Regime.
Introducing Rubin, Grohl offered an emphatic endorsement: “I defy you to find a amended stone drummer successful the world.”
Rubin made the lawsuit again astir 2 hours into the amusement with a thunderous drum diagnostic astatine the extremity of “Monkey Wrench.” When it was over, Grohl deadpanned that helium had not been lying.
The last agelong brought the night’s affectional and philharmonic precocious points. Before “Aurora,” Grohl dedicated the opus to the band’s precocious drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who told Apple Music 1 big Matt Wilkinson successful 2020 that it was the archetypal Foo Fighters drum way helium was arrogant of. The tribute added value to a acceptable already driven by the band’s momentum. Foo Fighters honored their past and moved on.
Then came “Best of You,” and thousands sustained the song’s “oh-oh-oh” refrain portion the set stretched the instrumental transition beneath them. The country prompted a visibly delighted Grohl to fto the infinitesimal breathe. He besides paused to salute Queens of the Stone Age, which supported the set connected the tour, describing the radical arsenic “dear, aged buddies” and noting the decades of relationship betwixt the bands.
“It’s been a fantastic circuit with Queens of the Stone Age,” Grohl said.
“Best of You” landed similar a finale, but the set had much to springiness successful a two-song encore. “Exhausted” came first, followed by “Everlong,” which drew different extended assemblage ovation. Grohl asked the assemblage to “sing it loud,” and the stadium answered. For a set built connected earthy emotion astatine afloat volume, it was a fitting past chorus.
All six musicians yet assembled astatine the caput of the B stage, bowed 3 times and waved goodbye.
There whitethorn beryllium younger bands with fresher songs and much elaborate spectacle. But Foo Fighters’ North American finale showed wherefore the radical remains a formidable gully 3 decades aft its birth: The songs are inactive there, the vigor is inactive there, and Grohl inactive knows precisely however to marque a assemblage of thousands consciousness similar it is portion of the band.
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