Baba Booey Made the Foo

(my friend "Chainsaw" would say:)

The year was 1997.

Rock music was not doing well.

The Foo Fighters were performing

live on the Howard Stern Show.

As the performance begins,

Stern asks Dave Grohl which

song he will be playing.

Dave responds: For All the Cows.

For All the Cows is a mellow rock

song from the first Foo album that

eventually rocks out heavily.

Stern replies: Play one of your hits.

Baba Booey interjects: Play Everlong.

This was the moment that made

the Foo Fighters a bit more than,

"that band with Nirvana's drummer."

That moment of serenity, with a guy

and a guitar... was almost magical.

Howard Stern got goose bumps.

Adam Sandler used a cleaned-up

(no talking before/during) version of this

very live Everlong performance for his

film (that nobody saw), Little Nicky.

It was the reason everyone wanted

to hear acoustic versions of each

popular Foo Fighters song

from then on...

...but it was never the same.