After wanting to see the Foo Fighters for so long, last night I finally got to see them play live, and they did not disappoint. I purchased my tickets a few months back and had been anticipating this concert since. They played a good mix of songs over their 16 year career, including Dave Grohl coming out on stage alone with his accoustic guitar and playing wheels, times like these and another song off the new album. It was pretty amazing. They finished up with Everlong. One of the coolest bits was during the song monkey wrench, right before the part of the song that goes "ONE LAST THING BEFORE I QUIT..." they went off into a solo then built it up slowly taking several epic minutes to get to that final part of the song. I have to say that I think they are the best live band i have ever seen and I won't be forgetting last night experience anytime soon.
The cool thing about the concert last night was that most of the crowd there, a LARGE majority were in the 30 - 40 bracket. I am at an age, 31, where when I go somewhere I either feel young or old without much middle ground. It is strange age, you are neither young nor old.. yet at this concert last night I looked around and I could see my generation. These are people who grew up in the same era as me and probably look at the world in a similar way. I must admit if the crowd had of been full of hipsters or kids that were 4 when the Foo Fighters started it would have been disappointing. The concert brought back memories of being a teen / young adult in the 90s. It brought back memories of going to see alternative rock music in small venues, walking away feeling really awesome with muffled hearing and just generally feeling good about life.
This morning I woke up and jump on theage.com.au website to check out this ongoing column they are writing about our best 25 test cricketers. Yesterday I read about number 3, Dennis Lillee so I knew today was either going to be Bradman or Warne. Warne it turns out was number 2 so I had a bit of a read. This guy, despite being a simple bloke who is a bit of a dill, was an amazing cricketer. I can remember back to 1992/93 when he had just come on the scene and he started really just steam rolling through teams. Starting with a bag of 7 against the all mighty windies in the boxing day test. I remember sitting up until late in the night in 1993 with Dad watching him DESTROY the poms. I was privlidged to see him bowl on a number of occasions. The thing about this guy is you knew he could just rip through a team at any moment. This is something our current team really lacks. You watch them bowling and just think "Shit we could be here all day.. how will we get a wicket?" When Warne was playing, Border, Taylor, Waugh or Ponting would toss the ball to him when we needed a week. When that happened the crowd would be on the edge of their seats in anticipation. Love him or hate him, he was awesome.
One of the great thrills was being at the MCG when Australia was bowling and after the first 10 - 20 overs the crowd would start this slow chant, demanding the skipper bring him on.. "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarnie... wwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnie... wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrnieeeeeee.." That used to send shivers down my spine when I heard that.. when he is finall thrown the ball the crowd would go nuts. I was lucky enough to be present the day he got a hattrick against england in 94. It was amazing the tension, excitement and emtions that played out during those 3 balls. Another interesting time was when he was out for his "drug ban" and McGill was in his team. McGill had he been born in any other country would have played a lot more cricket, he was a good bowler, but he was no warne. At the boxing day test that year we also had no McGrath so we had Bracken and Brad Williams opening the bowling, the Indian team smashed us around. When McGill came on to bowl, and every over he bowled the crowd started the Warnie chant. I can't imaging how he must have felt :P. The bloke finally gets a chance to be the sole leg spinner in the side and the crowd is against him.
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