foo fighters concert in nashville

i recently attended the foo fighters concert in nashville last saturday. for those of you out there who are wondering what the set list might be for when they visit your town, i'll list the one from the nashville show below. i'm also including a few notes from the show (i.e. spoilers follow, so don't read past the set list if you don't want to know anything else).

foo fighters nashville tennessee saturday january 26 2008

let it die
the pretender
times like these
breakout
learn to fly
cheer up boys (your makeup is running)
this is a call *
stacked actors **
skin and bones
marigold
my hero ***
cold day in the sun
but, honestly
everlong ****
monkey wrench
keep the car running (arcade fire cover)
all my life

* they made great use of stop-start dynamics in this version, including about a 2 1/2 minute guitar battle between dave grohl and another guitarist that was really cool.

** this featured about a 5 minute drum solo. that guy had to be tired. also, after this song, a miniature circular stage descended from the ceiling closer to the back of the auditorium and FF performed the next 6 songs from there with accompaniment from another 4 people.

*** after this song dave (yes, we're on a first name basis) introduced the other guys that were playing with them. he had the triangle player (drew hester) do a solo for us. i would not be surprised if that was the loudest a crowd has ever gotten for a triangle solo.

**** at first i was disappointed that it was an acoustic version of everlong. but as it went along i really liked it. usually i'm not a huge fan of crowds singing along in a concert but in this case it was actually really cool. the transition from acoustic to electric was also great. watch the whole thing here.

the set list was actually cut short by about 4 songs as dave was having trouble with his voice (which was later confirmed by him on the foo's website as a bout with the flu). as this was my first foo fighters concert, i had only heard stories of dave grohl's showmanship. and now i can confirm that, indeed, he puts on a first rate performance. i encourage anyone to go see them.