Across the Ist-a-Verse
The Foo Fighters and Weezer bring their co-headlining tour and its many nicknames (Foozer, Wee Fighters, This Totally Would Have Kicked Ass In 1997) to the Wachovia Center. Travel back in time with obsessed fans as they shout out requests for "El Scorcho" and "Everlong" and then watch their hearts get crushed as the bands rip into "Beverly Hills" and "Best of You."
Tonight's show begins at 7 p.m. with opening act Hot Hot Heat, who are actually pretty damn good for an opening act. Hopefully they listen to the calls for "Bandages" and keep "Jingle Jangle" locked away in a cage backstage. Weezer and Foo Fighters are "co-headliners" which is a kind way of keeping everyone's ego in check: Weezer follows the Hot Hot Heat and the Foo Fighters close. Both play full sets and encores, which is kind of weird, but hey, you'll get to hear the best, the best, the best, the best of Foo. And Weezer.
But that's only if you have tickets, or are ready to find a scalper: the show has managed to sell out. People must really, really love 1997. Then again, who wouldn't? Jim Eisenreich won a World Championship. That doesn't happen every year, people.
Foo Fighters and Weezer with Hot Hot Heat
Wachovia Center (3601 South Broad Street)
Tonight, 7 p.m.
$29.50 - $39.50
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Maybe so, but it would have kicked much more ass in '96. I, for one, really really hated 1997. It's the year Hanson, Backstreet Boys, and the rest of the pop explosion ruined rock as we knew it. Musically, 1996 was an infinitely better, more creative year. In '96 there was Tool's Ænima, Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar, Soundgarden's Down On The Upside, Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop, Bush's Razorblade Suitcase, Type O Negative's October Rust, Pantera's The Great Southern Trendkill, Nirvana's From The Muddy Banks of The Wishkah, Weezer's Pinkerton, and Smashing Pumpkins were still riding high on 1995's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. All I remember about 1997 is "MMMBop", Matchbox 20 *shudders*, Puff Daddy, Limp Bizkit, that damn Jamiroquai video MTV couldn't get enough of, and the Spice Girls. The only decent albums preventing that year from being a total loss were Radiohead's OK Computer and Foo Fighters' sophomore album The Colour and the Shape. I was at the Weezer / Foo Fighters show at Wachovia Center, and while it was enjoyable to watch, it made me wish it was still 1996. Unfortunately, the tour didn't have the power to do that. Too many things have changed since then.