1995 FOO FIGHTERS MIKE WATT EDDIE VEDDER SEATTLE AUTOGRAPHED CONCERT TICKET STUB

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN
ORIGINAL
FOO FIGHTERS
CONCERT TICKET STUB
THE FRONT OF THE TICKET IS SIGNED
IN BLACK SHARPIE BY MIKE WATT
MIKE WATT WITH OPENING BAND
THE  FOO FIGHTERS
AND HOVERCRAFT (WITH EDDIE VEDDER OF PEARL JAM)
ON MAY 11, 1995
AT THE KING CAT THEATRE
PERFORMANCE CENTER
IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
FOO FIGHTERS SET LIST
Winnebago (Late!cover)
This Is a Call
Butterflies
I'll Stick Around
Big Me
Wattershed
For All the Cows
Podunk
Alone + Easy Target
Exhausted
THIS IS FROM THE FOO FIGHTERS EARLIEST CONCERT TOUR
AND IS A GREAT PIECE OF FOO FIGHTERS HISTORY.
Foo Fighters Formation and debut album (1994–1995)
Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer in 1990. During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs. Grohl held back these songs from the rest of the band; he said in 1997, "I was in awe of [frontman Kurt Cobain's songs], and [I was] intimidated. I thought it was best that I kept my songs to myself."
Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers of songs he liked and even issued a cassette of some of those songs called
Pocketwatch
under the pseudonym "Late!" in 1992.
Frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994, and Nirvana subsequently disbanded. Grohl received offers to work with various artists; he almost accepted a permanent position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Ultimately Grohl declined and instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record fifteen of the forty songs he had written. With the exception of a guitar part on "X-Static", played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Dave Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal on the tracks."I was supposed to just join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life," Grohl later said. "I thought that I would rather do what no one expected me to do. I enjoy writing music and I enjoy trying to sing, and there's nothing anyone can really do to discourage me." Grohl completed an album's worth of material in five days and handed out cassette copies of the sessions to his friends for feedback.
Grohl hoped to keep his anonymity and release the recordings in a limited run under the title "Foo Fighters", taken from the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to unidentified flying objects.
However, the demo tape circulated in the music industry, creating interest among record labels.
Grohl formed a band to support the album. Initially, he talked to former Nirvana band mate Krist Novoselic about joining the group, but both decided against it. "For Krist and I, it would have felt really natural and really great", Grohl explained. "But for everyone else, it would have been weird, and it would have left me in a really bad position. Then I really would have been under the microscope." Having heard about the disbanding of Seattle-based rock band Sunny Day Real Estate, Grohl drafted the group's bass player, Nate Mendel, and drummer, William Goldsmith. Grohl asked Pat Smear, who served as a touring guitarist for Nirvana after the release of its 1993 album,
In Utero
, to join as the group's second guitarist. Grohl ultimately licensed the album to Capitol Records, releasing it on his new record label, Roswell Records.
Foo Fighters made its live public debut on February 23, 1995 at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California and then March 3 at The Satyricon in Portland. They followed that with a show at the Velvet Elvis in Seattle on March 4. The March 3 show had been part of a benefit gig to aid the finances of the investigation into the rape and murder of The Gits singer Mia Zapata. Grohl refused to do interviews or tour large venues to promote the album.
Foo Fighters undertook its first major tour in the spring of 1995, opening for Mike Watt
.
The band's first single, "This Is a Call", was released in June 1995, and its debut album
Foo Fighters
was released the next month. "I'll Stick Around", "For All the Cows", and "Big Me" were released as subsequent singles. The band spent the following months on tour, including their first appearance at the Reading Festival in England in August.
In spring 1995, the Foo Fighters embarked on their first ever United States tour supporting Mike Watt along with fellow tour newbies Hovercraft, whose line-up included Vedder at the time. As well as performing with their own bands, Grohl and Vedder each picked up a role as a member of Watt's backing band throughout the tour, supplying drums and guitar respectively.
A review from the Philadelphia show a week later April 29, 1995
Mike Watt, Hovercraft, Foo Fighters At The Troc
There were three acts on the bill at the Trocadero on Wednesday night worth buzzing about, and Eddie Vedder, famously tortured leader of Pearl Jam, didn't play a starring role in any of them.But even in Vedder's superstar denial mode, there was no denying who had the crowd buzzing. First up was Hovercraft, an arty noise outfit with Vedder's wife, Beth Liebling, on bass (and Vedder in disguise). Next came the Foo Fighters, the new band fronted by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl with an album due soon on Capitol records. And headlining was Mike Watt, the punk-rock bassist whose legend is such that the biggest Rock Star of the '90s is playing guitar in his band (and sharing a seat in the van.)
On its own, that Troc lineup is no small deal. But this became the alterna- rock event of the season thanks to arena-sized Eddie. Word he might show had spread from previous tour stops, so Vedder-viewing became the crowd's main sport. But Vedder made every effort to shrink into the background for the sold-out, all-ages show.
During Hovercraft, he played drums while wearing dark glasses and a wig. For Watt, he was undisguised, but simply concentrated on his guitar and vocal duties.
Despite the circus-like atmosphere, the music reigned. Hovercraft's opening was a mildly subversive, wordless dare. With images of lemurs, rockets and flowers projected behind them, Vedder, Liebling, a second bewigged drummer and a guitarist turned out one 30-minute, well-executed, Sonic Youth-goes- ambient drone.
The Foo Fighters followed ("Hey, hey, we're the Monkees," Grohl said upon hitting the stage), and served up just the high-energy jolt the mosh-ready crowd was waiting for. With Grohl and ex-Nirvanan Pat Smear on guitars, the Foos' tightly structured sound may be too Nirvana-esque for its own good. But though Grohl needs work as frontman, he's no pretender when it comes to songwriting.
Watt came on next, with no fanfare concerning the very recognizable guy to his left. Vedder and various Foos backed Watt for an hour - the most effective lineup featured Vedder (not much of a guitarist), Watt, and the double-drum attack of Grohl and fellow-Foo William Goldsmith.
Then the bearded, graying Watt, whose powerfully versatile bass has done most of his talking through 15 years with the Minutemen and fIREHOSE, proved an able frontman. He slurred out the words to "Big Train" from his solo debut, Ball Hog or Tugboat? (Columbia), and dedicated a roaring "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" to late Minutemen leader D. Boon.
And his now-quaking, now-jazzy bass was centerpiece of an extravaganza in which you never knew what was going to happen next.
"I hope we were able to blow your minds," Watt said in fitting conclusion. "That's what punk's all about, isn't it?"
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