Foo Fighters Wants and Needs

The Foo Fighter's tour rider was leaked online. For those of you who don't know, a tour rider is pretty much a list of things that the band will want when they get to the venue. Here are some interesting things i found on their's.

1. Please have signs visibly posted from crew entrance to catering prior to our arrival. Fat Roadies have to eat immediately so they can begin their arduous 70 to 90 minute work out.

2. A selection of cereals, and they can not be the same cereals from the night before.

3. No roast beef cold cut on deli meet tray.

4. Every lunch should include a "soup of the day." Please try to make it a vegetarian selection. Meaty soups make roadies fart.

5. Pasta/Italian Food Dishes (By pasta, we do not mean spaghetti soup as your town already has a homeless shelter. We live out of suitcases for goodness sakes!

6. ALSO- let's try to think outside the box as we consider the CHICKEN BREAST. A bunch of lightly cooked chicken breasts with goo on them are not fun, not exciting, and definetly not going to GET YOU A HUG FROM OUR BASS PLAYER NATE. (He's the real people person, not the guy from Nirvana.) I can not tell you how many times in catering all over the world, I have seen island after tiny island of chicken boobs floating in a mercury like sauce that gets pawned off as a thirteen dollar (US) entree. This is not a diss to lunch rooms and the genius of the tator tot or the surly lunch lady per se. It's just a thought.

7. Here are some cool things to do with meat and meat examples. Fried turkey, friend chicken, fried anything, really. Sausages, veggie sausages. Big ass kielbasas that make men self conscious. Any sort of tubed meats. Maybe a night of "fair foods." Cornish game hens. Meat-in a loaf form. Turkey meatloaf. Bacon. I call it "God's currency." Hell if it could be breathed, I would. Bacon in any form is great. Not as an entree, but just in general.

8. Three whole firm border line chubby avocados

9. One mess of fruit

10. One bag of Pirate's Booty. Not Johnny Depp's.

11. Twenty-four Large Bath Towels- If they are new and unwashed, you will receive a wedgie.

12. Four Bottles of Gatorade (Remember wacky colors please)


Appearently the rider was written by the band's tour manager, Gus Brandt.