Foo fans psyched about Saturday's intimate concert in Weathersfield

WEATHERSFIELD

Dave Karr of Cortland was only 18 when he first became a fan of Nirvana and its Warren-born drummer, Dave Grohl.

Karr, born in Trumbull Memorial Hospital the same year as Grohl, saw Nirvana play in bars in Seattle before they “got big.” Karr was stationed there in the military at the time.

He knew about Grohl’s connection to Trumbull County early on, continued to follow Grohl’s career with the Foo Fighters and remains a Foo fan 20 years later.

The local connection is important to Karr, but the way Grohl and the rest of the band treat fans also is huge, Karr said.

“I think nobody’s better to their fans than Dave and the Foo Fighters,” he said. The decision to play a show in a small storefront in the Pine Tree shopping center in front of 150 people is an example, he said.

“They showed up with trays and trays of food,” Karr said of people connected with the band who took care of the people in line overnight, waiting for their chance to get a ticket Thursday morning to the noon Saturday show. Some people waited more than 24 hours for their chance.

The only cost to the 150 people attending is the $25 they had to pay for the Foo Fighters’ new album, “Songs from the Laundry Room.”

Read more about the concert — and the local Foo fans — in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.