"He informed the crowd how it was his wife’s 50th birthday and that they decided to celebrate with a Foo Fighters concert in Napa. Grohl said the weekend was about “drinking from noon to midnight.”
Before playing the next song, Grohl suggested bringing Blum on stage to celebrate her, but when she wasn’t in the wings, he scrambled. “She’s probably drinking wine in the back,” he told the tens of thousands of people about his wife on her golden jubilee. “It doesn’t matter.”
Alone with the guitar, Grohl started strumming “Big Me.” It was saccharine. It lacked the conviction of the recording and felt performative. Grohl ended by saying, “That’s my version of a happy birthday song,” and I could have sworn I saw his ego erupt in a blaze of self-glory — surprising, since he looked so tiny on stage from the crowd.
Although their first two CDs were on repeat throughout my childhood thanks to older siblings, BottleRock was my first time attending a Foo Fighters concert. It was abundantly clear that Grohl is a rapid pacemaker. He told the crowd how he likes to play song after song after song, and before ending the night, Grohl predicted his future. “I’ll be 87 f—king years old and still up here screaming,” he said.
Numerous times, a song featured a false ending, giving him a chance to belt the hook yet again. It was as if Grohl couldn’t let the moment end, perhaps afraid to face the back of the stage and the rest of the world waiting for him when the final note played out."
Silas Valentino
"It was hard to love the Foo Fighters during their headlining BottleRock set
"SFGATE editor Silas Valentino reviews the Foo Fighters BottleRock in Napa, their third headlining set in nine years"
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/foo-fighters-bottlerock-22268679.php
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