UPDATE: See full concert review here: “Foo Fighters well worth the everlong wait.”
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The Foo Fighters performed a two-hour set after arriving late at the St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview on Wednesday night. The Dave Grohl-led band was delayed in getting to Syracuse on a flight from New York City, but made it worth the wait for the near-sellout crowd with hits like “Times Like These,” “Everlong” and “Best of You.”
The rockers even briefly transformed into a disco group called the Dee Gees for a cover of the Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” and covered Queen’s “Somebody to Love” with Grohl on drums and Taylor Hawkins doing his best Freddie Mercury impression.
It was the Foos’ first time performing in Syracuse in more than 20 years, previously playing the Landmark Theatre in 2000. The band is celebrating its 25th/26th anniversary this year, and received the MTV Video Music Awards’ first-ever Global Icon Award at the VMAs on Sunday.
Opening act Bambara took the stage at 8:35 p.m. after originally being scheduled to go on at 7:30. The Foo Fighters followed at 9:56 p.m., nearly ninety minutes late from their previously announced 8:30 set time, and played until midnight.
See the set list below and concert photos above. Click here for a full concert review.
Foo Fighters set list - Sept. 15, St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse, N.Y.
Times Like These
The Pretender
Learn to Fly
No Son of Mine
The Sky is a Neighborhood
Shame Shame
Breakout
My Hero
These Days
Walk
You Should Be Dancing (Bee Gees cover)
Band member solos + Blitzkrieg Bop snippet
Somebody to Love (Queen cover)
All My Life
This Is a Call
Best of You
Everlong