Last night at the George Mason Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA, Campus Progress joined the Foo Fighters and Weezer on the sixteenth show of their 2005 world tour. Campus Progress volunteers across the country have been touring with the Foo Fighters to help spread the word about Campus Progress.

The Foozer/Weefighters (as the bands have affectionately nicknamed themselves for this tour) took it to new heights last night at the sold-out Patriot Center. Both bands seemed to be utterly in their element, but it was a particularly big night for the Fighters of Foo, for whom it was a homecoming show of sorts. Dave Grohl, originally from Fairfax, VA had about thirty friends and family members attend the show as his guests, including his parents and his wife Jordan seated at the soundboard. After the first few songs, both fans and guests alike were treated to stories from the singer's rebellious youth. It was a night of serenades and switcharoos for both bands. Grohl launched into a chilling acoustic Everlong to his wife Jordan that ended with the rest of the band joining in. At one point Grohl apologized to his parents for all of his childhood antics and then sang to them in a darkened Patriot Center with spotlights on the singer at the front of the stage and his parents in the back of the arena. The drummers of both bands took over the mike at points, Hawkins serenading his new wife and Patrick Wilson of Weezer covering Blur's "song 2" while the rest of Weezer collectively took over on drums.



The Foos and Weezer both banged out some major crowd pleasers and most of their big hits - Weezer with Undone, and Beverly Hills and the Foo Fighters with Up in Arms, My Hero, Times Like These, Best of You and a few others from their new album. If you get a chance to see them on this tour, keep your wits about you, at one point during both sets, you may want to move to the back of the floor. Rivers and Dave aren't afraid of getting up in it.

In between sets and before and after the show, we talked to hundreds of concert-goers about Campus Progress. The crowd ranged from the drunk kids who asked our friends working for Democracy for America if we didn't already have a democracy and a smattering of college students to a handful of 40-somethings with 12 year olds and a whole lot of Nirvana hangers-oners.

In addition to getting personal about his childhood, Grohl shared quite a bit about his bandmates, calling Chris Shiflett "the boxer," and Nate Mendel "the karate expert," both of whom could kick anybody's ass.



This was the stillest Dave stood for the entirety of the show.





I actually got this close to Rivers. Seriously.