During the song Walk, the 42-year-old noticed a man flailing violently in the midst of other crowd members, and summarily dismissed him: "Who’s that there? Let me see him. Who’s fighting? Let me see him. Hey you in the striped shirt, look at me, look at me… Get the f*** outta my show right now. Get the f*** out."
Those who have followed the former Nirvana drummer's career won't be surprised by this latest show of moral candour. Behind the long hair, tattoos and sandpaper howl, Grohl has cultivated an image as the clean-living head boy of rock.
Fan pain is clearly a pet peeve of Grohl’s. As far back as 1995, Grohl explained in a tour diary for the NME how he had the barriers between the stage and the crowd removed to allow fans to storm the stage without being hurt.
Elswhere, he has been vocal on the issue of drug use – perhaps unsurprisingly given the troublesome heroin addiction which so affected his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. The party line? Steer clear wherever possible, especially of the hard ones.
"I have never done cocaine, ever in my life. I have never done heroin, I have never done speed," he said in a 2008 interview. He added that he had stopped smoking marijuana and taking acid at the age of 20.
In 2009 he created an anti-drug video for the BBC: "I've seen people die. It ain't easy being young," he said, "but that stuff doesn't make it any easier".
When Grohl was taken to hospital in 2009, it was caffeine he had overdosed on: "I had too much coffee, I started to get chest pains so I went to the hospital and they told me to stop drinking the coffee."
He complements his determinedly anti-hedonistic lifestyle with daily yoga classes. Ozzy Osborne, he ain’t.
But it isn't just clean living that makes Grohl such a fatherly figure. In the Foo Fighters' recent documentary, Back and Forth, Grohl revealed a tender, emotionally vulnerable side. He fought back the tears as he unpacked his sorrow in kicking guitarist and close friend Franz Stahl out of the band in 1999.
Meanwhile, scenes of the current band and their families smiling as they paddled in the swimming pool at Grohl's mansion in LA recalled a Sunday barbeque at a well-heeled country club.
Last night at the Roundhouse was the latest example of Papa Grohl’s willingness to ensure everyone is having a good time:
"I don’t put up with that bulls*** – you people come here to have a good time and that guy can f*** off."
All he needs now is a bit of work on his language.
By James Lachno taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8634675/Foo-Fighters-Dave-Grohl-kicks-brawler-out-of-Roundhouse-concert.html
When Grohl was taken to hospital in 2009, it was caffeine he had overdosed on: "I had too much coffee, I started to get chest pains so I went to the hospital and they told me to stop drinking the coffee."
He complements his determinedly anti-hedonistic lifestyle with daily yoga classes. Ozzy Osborne, he ain’t.
But it isn't just clean living that makes Grohl such a fatherly figure. In the Foo Fighters' recent documentary, Back and Forth, Grohl revealed a tender, emotionally vulnerable side. He fought back the tears as he unpacked his sorrow in kicking guitarist and close friend Franz Stahl out of the band in 1999.
Meanwhile, scenes of the current band and their families smiling as they paddled in the swimming pool at Grohl's mansion in LA recalled a Sunday barbeque at a well-heeled country club.
Last night at the Roundhouse was the latest example of Papa Grohl’s willingness to ensure everyone is having a good time:
"I don’t put up with that bulls*** – you people come here to have a good time and that guy can f*** off."
All he needs now is a bit of work on his language.
By James Lachno taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8634675/Foo-Fighters-Dave-Grohl-kicks-brawler-out-of-Roundhouse-concert.html
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