{"id":490350,"date":"2019-09-20T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=887771"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:10:35","slug":"foo-fighters-release-2005-roswell-concert-for-storm-area-51-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/foo-fighters-release-2005-roswell-concert-for-storm-area-51-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Release 2005 Roswell Concert for \u2018Storm Area 51 Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foo Fighters<\/a> have released a special June 18th, 2005 concert at the shuttered Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico to mark \u201cStorm Area 51 Day.\u201d While Area 51 is located in the Nevada desert, both it and Roswell have long been associated with alien and UFO conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

The new set, titled 00050525 Live in Roswell<\/em>, boasts seven songs, including renditions of \u201cMonkey Wrench,\u201d \u201cAll My Life\u201d and a 10-minute version of of \u201cStacked Actors.\u201d The Foo Fighters also shared<\/a> an accompanying poster detailing proper behavior at Storm Area 51 Day, including \u201cControl yourself at the barbecue,\u201d \u201cShould you encounter extraterrestrials, be polite\u201d and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 \u201cRock out at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per the Foo Fighters\u2019 website<\/a>, the Roswell show was a special 10th anniversary gig, for which the band held a contest to fly out fans to Walker Air Force Base (frontman Dave Grohl also notably named his RCA Records imprint, Roswell Records). 00050525 Live in Roswell<\/em> follows another live archival release, 00950025<\/em>, which arrived in July<\/a> and captured the band\u2019s 1995 set at the Reading Festival in England.<\/p>\n

Storm Area 51 Day \u2014 which is scheduled for today, September 20th \u2014 began as a joke<\/a> Facebook event to organize a flash mob at the once-secret Nevada military base. Dubbed \u201cStorm Area 51, They Can\u2019t Stop All of Us,\u201d the event description jokingly suggested \u201cIf we naruto run<\/a>, we can move faster than their bullets. Let\u2019s see them aliens.\u201d The event quickly went viral, garnering millions of RSVPs and prompting the Air Force to issue<\/a> the extremely-not-joking statement that it \u201calways stands ready to protect America and its assets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Remember: be polite. \ud83d\udc7d\ud83d\udef8\ud83e\udd18
Foo Fighters Live in Roswell https:\/\/t.co\/QoTzv2qywX<\/a>#Area51storm<\/a> #EnjoyRoswell<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/q7Czm9ezPy<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Foo Fighters (@foofighters) September 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After becoming a viral meme, the creators of the Storm Area 51 Facebook page attempted to turn the faux-gathering into a music festival in nearby Rachel, Nevada, dubbed, obviously, AlienStock. Earlier this month, however, the organizers dropped the idea<\/a>, acknowledging that neither they, nor the tiny town of Rachel, would be able to successfully or safely host such an event. Instead, one of the organizers, Matty Roberts, threw his hat<\/a> in with a much more sensible event in downtown Las Vegas, sponsored by Bud Light, though others remained committed to gathering in Rachel.<\/p>\n

Per the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em><\/a>, hundreds of alien enthusiasts began gathering outside the Area 51 gates at the designated time of 3 a.m. this morning. While no one actually attempted to storm base, local police reportedly arrested one person for indecent exposure after they peed at the security gate.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foo Fighters have released a special June 18th, 2005 concert at the shuttered Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico to mark \u201cStorm Area 51 Day.\u201d While Area 51 is located in the Nevada desert, both it and Roswell have long been associated with alien and UFO conspiracy theories. The new set, titled 00050525 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 13:02:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}