Foo Fighters Look Back — and Ahead — With Epic Club Show at New Washington D.C. Venue the Atlantis: Concert Review
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music Editor Dave Grohl is nothing if not loyal. He’s said many times that he owes much of his iconic rock career to the nightclubs of his hometown of Washington D.C., and he’s now brought his Foo Fighters to open or relaunch three of them for local promoter I.M.P., playing venues much, much smaller than the band’s usual arena and festival stages.
Over the past few years the band has played the opening gigs at the relaunched 9:30 Club, the legendary city venue where Grohl saw hundreds of bands as a teen; the Anthem; and, on Tuesday night, the new Atlantis, a state-of-the-art, 450-capacity club built to the almost identical specifications of the original 9:30 on F Street, which even has a rooftop bar filled with artifacts (a parking meter, phone booth, posters, newspaper stands and more) from the old club.
And for the opening song of their two-and-a-half-hour-long set at the Atlantis on Tuesday night, the band nodded to that shared history by opening with “At the Atlantis,” a cover of the song by D.C.
hardcore legends Bad Brains, featuring a guest vocal from Pete Stahl, singer of Grohl’s pre-Nirvana band the Scream, who naturally enough finished by diving into the crowd.
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