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The Foo Fighters Just Epically Trolled Westboro Baptist Church For Protesting Outside Concert
Grammy-winning American rock band The Foo Fighters have just made headlines for trolling the Westboro Baptist Church--again.
Before their August 5 concert in Bonner Springs, Kansas, The Foo Fighters epically trolled the Westboro Baptist Church for protesting the band outside of the Azura Amphitheater where the concert was about to take place.
The Westboro Baptist Church, which has protested The Foo Fighters on more than one occasion, is a religious Baptist organization founded in Topeka, Kansas. They stage ultra-conservative and often homophobic protests (often times at funerals) and are regularly referred to as an inflammatory hate group.
In this instance, the Church members were protesting outside of the amphitheater where The Foo Fighters were about to perform, holding signs with slogans such as:
"God sent the Coronavirus in fury."
"God hates Pride" (this is most likely referencing LGBTQIA Pride).
And "Free will is a Satanic lie."
The Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl then decided to troll the hate group by dressing up as their disco alter egos, The Dee Gees, a reference to famous disco group The Bee Gees.
Grohl and the rest of the group, in their 1970's style Dee Gee attire, then rolled up to the Church group on a flatbed truck where the group performed their rendition of The Bee Gees' "You Should be Dancing."
During the performance, Grohl had some wise words for the hate group:
"Alright now, ladies and gentlemen, I got something to say. Because you know what, I love you."
"I do! The way I look at it, is that I love everybody. Isn't that what you're supposed to do? Can't you just love everybody? Cos I think it's about love! That's what I think, we're all about love. And you shouldn't be hating, you know what you should be doing? You should be dancing!"
Grohl even encouraged the Church protesters to join in by singing and dancing.
Watch the video here:
Dave Grohl & The Foo Fighters trolled the Westboro Baptist Church outside their concert in Kansas tonight. PLAYING DISCO.pic.twitter.com/Ci2yh1M7QR— talkie (@talkie) 1628221829
This is not the first run-in The Foo Fighters have had with the Westboro Baptist Church.
The band first started by trolling a Westboro Baptist Church protest back in 2011, where the Church had been staging one of their homophobic protests. The band crashed the protest by performing the song "Keep it Clean", which had some suggestive lyrics regarding "hot man muffins."
Following this, the two groups had another run-in in 2015 when the Church were protesting another Foo Fighters concert. Grohl responded to this by "rickrolling" the hate group, drowing out their protest by blasting Rick Astley's classic hit "Never Gonna Give You Up."
When interviewed after the iconic "rickroll", Grohl said:
"Tonight, we were sitting backstage, and someone said: 'Guess who is coming tonight?' And I said, 'Who?' They said, 'Them.' I said, 'Why?' They said, 'Cause.' And I said, 'Cool, let's go out and f*ckin' hang out with them.'"
Grohl continued:
"So we didn't have enough time to put together the big old show that we put on last time, so we figured, you know what, why don't we just f*cking rickroll their ass?"
"Cause nothing says love like a little Rick Astley in your life, you know what I'm saying? Never gonna give his ass up!"
Thus, when the Church protested their most recent August 5 concert in Kansas, the band decided to go all-out in response.
The decision to troll the hate group as their disco alter egos The Dee Gees came after the band debuting their first Dee Gees album titled Hail Satin earlier this year.
The album is filled with covers of The Bee Gees, live songs from The Foo Fighters newest album Medicine at Midnight, and a cover of Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing."
Unfortunately, the hate group didn't respond to Grohl's call for love, later responding on Twitter about the band's most recent trolling attempt:
"Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl claims he loves everybody and Westboro Baptist does not. Hello! There's no love in encouraging sin. Someone might accuse Dave of being a … Pretender."
The Foo Fighters' trolling of the Westboro Baptist Church has Twitter users applauding, including Star Wars actor Mark Hamill:
For years, Dave Grohl has not only been selflessly fighting Foo, here he courageously combats hate with love and disco.\n#Gr8fulhttps://twitter.com/Talkie86/status/1423491643169132549\u00a0\u2026— Mark Hamill (@Mark Hamill) 1628284388
Dave Grohl is a patriot— Scott Dworkin (@Scott Dworkin) 1628267387
Awesome These people should take a leaf out of Dave Grohl's & the Foo's book, there would be a lot less hate & division in the World.\n\nTop trolling— Martin \ud83d\udc99\ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffb (@Martin \ud83d\udc99\ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffb) 1628235779
It\u2019s sad that Westboro considers themselves representatives of Jesus because as Dave said it\u2019s about love. They are a hate group. People are drawn to light, love and the positive. Those who embrace hate are miserable people.— Dark Defender \ud83d\udd2a\ud83d\udda4\ud83c\udf08 (@Dark Defender \ud83d\udd2a\ud83d\udda4\ud83c\udf08) 1628270142
There goes my Hero, watch him as he goes\u2026 #GodIsLoveNotHate— Sarah Lynn Murphy (@Sarah Lynn Murphy) 1628244901
Everyone's calling it trolling, but I call it overcoming hate with love. This is dope.https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1423487467601027075\u00a0\u2026— Angel Eduardo (@Angel Eduardo) 1628281210
Dave Grohl & the Foo Fighters: (a) national treasures; (b) not afraid to call out bigots and bullies like the Westboro Baptist Church. We play Foo in this house everyday https://twitter.com/Talkie86/status/1423491643169132549\u00a0\u2026— Jessica Gabel Cino (@Jessica Gabel Cino) 1628393545
The Foo Fighters trolling the hell out of Westboro Baptist church is the best thing I\u2019ve seen this entire month— Bekah Black (@Bekah Black) 1628369174
Fact is #LoveIsLove & this is sooo awesome. I\u2019m with Tara Dublin, the @foofighters are amazing.\n#DaveGrohl has more Christianity in his little toe, than these Westboro hatemongers could gather in 5 lifetimes.\n#FooFightersFabulousness\n#FooFightershttps://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1423487467601027075\u00a0\u2026— \ud83c\udf96George Cross Awardee\ud83c\udf96 (@\ud83c\udf96George Cross Awardee\ud83c\udf96) 1628284057
Westboro Baptist Church showed up at my son's funeral. Anyone that can fight them with love and music is a hero in my book.— Angelia (@Angelia) 1628284465
The Foo Fighters will continue their world tour through 2022, hopefully trolling the Westboro Baptist Church whenever possible.