Foo Fighters.

I was at the Foo Fighters concert they held at the Opera House in October 2006. It was one of the best nights of my life and the best concert I have ever been too.

And yet, this is coming from a band who has made their name on their hard rocking rock shows, a band that is playing in one of the most famous opera houses in the world, that played so softly, gently and beautifully.

Many times Dave Grohl has said he much prefers the accoustic sets to the hard rocking ones.
For crying out loud they even released an accoustic album, and Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace is pretty far from a normal Foo Fighters record.

Yet nobody calls either the band nor Dave Grohl soft.
Yet when Silverchair released Diorama everyone said they were soft, yours truly included.

Now I'm not defending Silverchair, far from it, I really don't like them I just thought this was an interesting occurance.

I guess part of the explaination can come from the fact the Foos are still doing rock sets but Silverchair still play their old stuff too.

I love Dave Grohl, i love all of their stuff, hard and soft and i think he is one of the best frontmen in the world and the last thing i would want is for anyone to challenge his "manhood" and what not, I just think it's interesting a lot of people must think the same thing.