This video of lead Foo Fighters' singer Dave Grohl and his gang "rickrolling" a protest in a pickup truck, went viral over the weekend. The group blasted Rick Astley's 80s hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" from speakers while holding up signs that said "You got Rick roll'd (again)" and "Keep it clean." The protesters, from the Westboro Baptist Church, were protesting outside the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday before the Foos' concert...
Well this is certainly one way to get the attention of a famous rock band to come to your town - make a music vid with a thousand of your friends, singing one of the band's songs. That's exactly what the Rockin' 1000 did - a group of 1,000 Italian Foo Fighter fans who got together to coax the rockers to play in the city of Cesena in northern Italy. The vid with over 15M views, caught the attention of the Foo Fighters who tweeted back in Italian saying, "How beautiful, Cesena." Even if the request doesn't come to fruition, all is not lost as we will still have this awesome rock vid to look back upon. Check out Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's response, (in Italian), in the second vid below...