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Foo Fighters recently played “Times Like These” during Joe Biden’s performance Celebrating America opening show and played during the presidency of Barack Obama, but in the 1980s Dave Grohl was attending an event in Washington DC for a very different reason. During a recent interview with the Independent, he remembered being “beaten up by the police and countrymen” during a “Rock Against Reagan” show that featured bands like Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys.
The rally took place “right in the mall, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, four hundred meters from where I would one day be invited to play Obama’s first big ‘party’ on the south lawn,” recalled Grohl. “They happened every fourth of July. Hundreds of thousands of people from the suburbs would come to see the national fireworks display. And right in the middle of it all was a punk show with bands like Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains. “
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“There were police on horseback with fucking batons,” he noted. “It was crazy. I was going to be beaten up by the police and country hens. But it was the right place and the right time for that, under Reagan’s stifling conservative management. “
The Foos are getting ready to release their tenth studio album, Midnight remedy, on February 5th and will celebrate the new songs with a live broadcast and a limited engagement radio channel on SiriusXM.
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