The band also paid tribute to late drummer Taylor Hawkins in a short, effective set<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a celebration,\u201d said Dave Grohl, chugging from a bottle of champagne toward the end of Foo Fighters<\/a>\u2019 sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl<\/a> on Saturday, Aug. 22 \u2014 somehow, the first time the 32-year-old band has played the iconic venue in the heart of Hollywood. He wasn\u2019t just referring to the band\u2019s gig there, though. He was referencing the enormity of the whole night, which found the Foo\u2019s digging through both deep back catalogs and hits, backed by the dozens-strong Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by beloved longtime music director Gustavo Dudamel<\/a>, on his penultimate night with the LA Phil before moving to New York (West Coasters, do not despair: He will return regularly to the city and the ensemble as a guest conductor).<\/p>\n \n\tDudamel and his orchestra added incredible amounts of drama to the Foos\u2019 catalog. \u201cThe Pretender\u201d was buoyed by horns that made it sound like a lost James Bond theme, while \u201cRazor,\u201d an acoustic deep-cut from In Your Honor was made full with gorgeous, lilting strings echoing the main instrumental themes. After playing another softer song, \u201cHome,\u201d for the first time since 2007, Grohl admitted, \u201cWhenever we played that song, there\u2019s no way I could make it through without just bursting into tears.\u201d He continued, waxing poetic about playing the Bowl with the orchestra: \u201cI wish that we could do this every night for the rest of our lives, with all these amazing people.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tOther highlights included a gospel choir adding harmony and joy to \u201cThe Sky Is a Neighborhood\u201d and \u201cRun,\u201d and an emotional, lengthy run-through of \u201cAurora,\u201d which the band dedicated to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, as they have done regularly since his passing (\u201cHe would have loved this,\u201d Grohl exclaimed, looking out at the full Bowl.)<\/p>\n \n\tOf course, the set ended with \u201cEverlong,\u201d the entire orchestra and the choir erupting in a crescendo as fireworks set to the music blasted over the Bowl. \u201cIf anything could ever be this good again,\u201d Grohl sang, and it certainly felt like all 17,500 people who had witnessed the show agreed: highly unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band also paid tribute to late drummer Taylor Hawkins in a short, effective set \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1165300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,49034,300286,316314,269,16,15],"class_list":["post-1165299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-foo-fighters","tag-gustavo-dudamel","tag-hollywood-bowl","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117146451126579202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}