{"id":279643,"date":"2021-06-21T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/foo-fighters-at-1st-msg-show-since-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:24:40","slug":"foo-fighters-at-1st-msg-show-since-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/foo-fighters-at-1st-msg-show-since-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Foo Fighters at 1st MSG show since COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Foo Fighters at 1st MSG show since COVID<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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In times like these, you do indeed learn to live again.<\/p>\n

That was the resounding and rejuvenating spirit of the live music experience coming rocking back to life with the Foo Fighters at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. Yes, on Father\u2019s Day evening, the grandaddy of all arenas held its first concert since COVID shut the party down in March 2020.<\/p>\n

And after the Sunday-chill sounds of The Commodores\u2019 \u201cEasy\u201d set the mood for them to take the stage, the hard-rocking Foo Fighters didn\u2019t waste any time launching into what is probably their best-known tune, \u201cTimes Like These,\u201d which would typically have been saved for the end of the show. When the song was over, Foo frontman Dave Grohl raised his right arm triumphantly as a load roar let out across the Garden.<\/p>\n

At that moment, no words were needed from Grohl \u2014 or anyone else. It was all about that roar, a communal release that concertgoers had been waiting 15 long months to have together again.<\/p>\n

With Grohl seemingly not wanting to waste a minute talking when he and his band could at long last be playing to a live audience, the Foo Fighters kept on swinging, going straight from \u201cTimes Like These\u201d into \u201cThe Pretender.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans walk past a digital display that reads, \u201crock and roll returns to the Garden tonight\u201d at the Foo Fighters concert at Madison Square Garden.<\/figcaption>
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Then finally a revved-up Grohl said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for this! We\u2019ve been waiting for the rock and roll .\u2009.\u2009. Do you want rock and roll?\u201d After asking the latter question three times, the collective \u201cyes\u201d only got bigger and bigger \u2014 in just one of the times that the Foos and their delirious fans threatened to rip the roof off of the Garden.<\/p>\n

The last time MSG got rocked by any act was when the Brothers \u2014 including some longtime Allman Brothers Band members \u2014 celebrated the music of ABB on March 10, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Anti-vax protesters outside Madison Square Garden protest a Foo Fighters concert for vaccinated people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And even as this was a banging jolt of normalcy, this was still a very different world from the last time concertgoers fist-pumped and sang along to every song \u2014 sometimes annoyingly \u2014 in the stands. This time, you had to show proof of vaccination \u2014 a requirement that drew anti-vax protesters outside of MSG \u2014 and there were some who were still masked up inside even after that.<\/p>\n

But the audience and the staff largely went without masks. Still, there were hand-sanitizer stations all around, which have no doubt been in place since the Knicks and Rangers started playing to crowds again in February.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, and Nate Mendel pose backstage.<\/figcaption>
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And there were surely those (yours truly included) who had some anxiety about shouting in maskless strangers\u2019 faces over the music.<\/p>\n

Even before the Foos took the stage, fans were already standing. \u201cI\u2019m excited. It\u2019s gonna be awesome,\u201d said Justin Stags, 18, of West Milford, NJ, who was rocking a navy-blue Nirvana \u201cNevermind\u201d shirt in homage to Grohl\u2019s former band. \u201cSomebody stepped on my shoes in the hallway, and they were apologizing. And I was like, \u2018No, please step on my shoes! I haven\u2019t been this close to people in so long.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans in the audience react as The Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden.<\/figcaption>
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As if the night weren\u2019t already emotional enough with the return of concerts at the Garden, the show was dedicated to the Foos\u2019 longtime stage manager, Andy Pollard, who died suddenly on Friday. Pollard even got some love on the MSG Jumbotron on Seventh Avenue.<\/p>\n

But at the end of the day, nothing could steal the joy of the return of live music to the Garden. Pat B., an usher at MSG who didn\u2019t want to give her last name, summed it up best: \u201cRock and roll is back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dave Grohl performs onstage as The Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden.<\/figcaption>
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