“Hello, I’ve waited here for you…Everlong”



 

By Christian Trublet de Nermont

I love the Foo Fighters….Like, I LOVE them.  I’m not weird or anything though; I don’t have “Dave Grohl” tattooed on my forehead, or a shrine built into my closet  complete with candles and statues that endangers both my life and those of my Grand-parents if it were to catch alight and burn their house to the ground.  I also don’t know where he lives, or what school his children go to.

I do, however, happen to have their band logo (“FF”) tattooed on my upper right thigh, or buttock (if you wanna be an ass about it).  I don’t live with my grand-parents in their basement like some weirdo.  I live with my parents, like some loser.

Last but not least, I was also in the possession of a near-scale cardboard cut-out of Dave Grohl.  My then girlfriend of that time thought it would be the closest that I would get to meeting him in person and had it made for me. Turns out though that having your idol staring at you and watching over you while you sleep and do other, ‘stuff’, in your room is quite creepy.  So pseudo-Dave had to go (Side-note: It was a touching ceremony with an open casket accompanied by a moving rendition of ‘Everlong’ by yours truly).

This led me to an epiphany:  One; I was horrible at singing, and Two; Everlong is an amazing song!

The Foo Fighters have been around as long as this beautiful nation of ours has been democratic.  They have been with us through Times Like These and those, when we were Learning To Fly solo and allowed us the opportunity to Breakout when we’ve felt like a Monkeywrench because someone got The Best (!!!), The Best (!!!), The Best (!!!), The Best (!!!) of us.  Simply put, All My Life I’ve been searching for their South African Tour Dates.

We as a country have hosted some of the worlds best artists: Neil Diamond, Lenny Kravitz, Korn, Metallica, Seether (born here!), NOFX, Muse, The Killers, 30 Seconds To Mars, Collective Soul, R.E.M., Violent Femmes, U2 (Dude, U2…) and soon to grace us with their royal presence, the Kings Of Leon.  Every band that has created a genre or been influential in their genre has toured here.

Like we have recently shown in our municipal elections, it is up to the people to decide.  The power to bring the Foo Fighters to South Africa is within all of us, and we need to draw this power out of each other, because Eskom sure as hell won’t do it for us!  By joining this group and adding your friends, you are reaching one more person, and making this dream one step closer for all of us.  Stranger Things Have Happened, and believe me when I say it - like a little drummer boy, for instance, penning more hits than his fallen front-man from his previous band.

I’m not saying we’re going to topple regimes or have our Government drop bombs on us like our fellow Africans up north, but it would be nice to be a part of a movement that did something meaningful.  That, and scream my face off at Dave Grohl while he does the same to me and 90,000 other mal fans.