The Best Rider in Rock - The Foo Fighters

Everyone’s heard the legends about rock bands’ riders:  the contracts they send to venues that lay out their demands requests.  The requests are often outrageous, from Van Halen requiring a bowl of M&M’s with all the brown ones removed to the Rolling Stones needing a toilet on wheels.  The Smoking Gun has a huge collection of riders, but none of them can touch the fighters of foo.

Foo Fighters’ Tour Manager Gus Brandt is the brainchild behind rock music’s greatest rider.  In it he requests vegetarian soups (because meat soups make roadies fart), extols the virtues of bacon (”If it could be breathed, I would”), and threatens a catering jihad if the band doesn’t get SOLO drinking cups.  It even includes a recipe for ice!  Do yourselves a favor and go read it.

Via The Smoking Gun and Idolator