Crescendo

The band was in top form with Grohl keeping up the good humor despite occasionally struggling with his voice during a set peppered with modern rock hits like Learn To Fly, Times Like These, and Monkey Wrench. Just before ending the set with Everlong, probably their best known song, Grohl decided to cut one song from the set. A post show peek at the set list indicated that the omitted song was the One By One track Tired Of You.

Also noted on that set list was a planned encore of three songs: Aurora, a cover of Prince's Darling Nikki, and their first ever single, This Is A Call. Unfortunately, due to either Grohl's increasingly strained vocal cords or the crowd's inability to muster the level of noise that would merit an encore, the band never made it back to the stage. The roadies seemed tentative at first about starting to tear down the stage but eventually the house lights came up and the show was truly over.

		Howlin' Wolf New Orleans, LA May 3, 2004 story & photos by Ritchie Champagne
The band was in top form with Grohl keeping up the good humor despite occasionally struggling with his voice during a set peppered with modern rock hits like Learn To Fly, Times Like These, and Monkey Wrench. Just before ending the set with Everlong, probably their best known song, Grohl decided to cut one song from the set. A post show peek at the set list indicated that the omitted song was the One By One track Tired Of You. Also noted on that set list was a planned encore of three songs: Aurora, a cover of Prince's Darling Nikki, and their first ever single, This Is A Call. Unfortunately, due to either Grohl's increasingly strained vocal cords or the crowd's inability to muster the level of noise that would merit an encore, the band never made it back to the stage. The roadies seemed tentative at first about starting to tear down the stage but eventually the house lights came up and the show was truly over.
While the lack of an encore was disappointing, it can be forgiven in light of Grohl's throat problems. Also, the band did seem to be compensating for this by doing a little more extended jamming than usual for a Foo show.