
Foo Fighters Garage Tour
Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, and Pat Smear spend the spring of 2011 setting up amps and drum kits in the actual garages of Foo Fighters fans, playing full sets for whoever's driveway they've taken over. The tour is built around the release of Wasting Light, an album Grohl recorded on analog tape in his own garage in California's San Fernando Valley with producer Butch Vig and no computers involved in the process, so the fan-garage format doubles as a callback to how the record was made. The camera stays close to the small-space chaos of it: neighbors crowding in, gear crammed between lawnmowers and storage boxes, the band playing at a volume clearly built for arenas. There's no narration framing or contextualizing any of it, just performance footage from stop to stop as the tour moves house to house. It's a document of a band choosing the smallest possible venue on purpose, right after making an album about stripping things back down.