Robert and Michele Forto recap the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 26, 2026, the final night of the Take Cover stadium run.

Dave Grohl told the room it was one of the largest shows he's ever played in this city. The football palace was stacked. Foo Fighters played almost three hours.

Gouge Away opened at 5:30. Queens of the Stone Age hit at 6:35 and did the job: loud enough that the stadium shrank. No Them Crooked Vultures cameo. Then the Foos at 8:10.

Before the doors opened, they asked three questions. Does All My Life still start the sprint? Does the stadium sing My Hero and Best of You like it means it? Does Everlong still end it? Yes. Yes. And yes.

The first hour was the reason people buy stadium tickets: All My Life, The Pretender, Times Like These, Rope, Stacked Actors, My Hero into Learn to Fly, then These Days, Walk, and This Is a Call. No Son of Mine slid into Motörhead’s Ace of Spades.

On the B-stage they played Wheels and Marigold. Dave dedicated Marigold to Krist Novoselic, who was in the building ahead of an MTV Vanguard Award, and joked they would be the oldest people in that room except Madonna. Big Me brought Mentos onstage. Under You was the Kurt moment they called in the pre-show.

Then the Take Cover trick: the first-band intro run, Invincible, Seven, One Headlight, Manimal, Tap Dancing in a Minefield, with Dave on the kit and Ilan Rubin shredding guitar. Michele’s line: close your eyes, and you know you are at a Foo show, but it is heavier now. Rubin is not Taylor. He does not have to be.

Monkey Wrench. Best of You. Run. They closed with Exhausted, a song they used to end nights with, then Everlong. Two hours and fifty-five minutes.

Godsmack on Thursday. Foo Fighters on Saturday. Next Vegas trip: Metallica at the Sphere.

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