Fans To Lure Foo Fighters With 1000-Person ‘Learn To Fly’ Cover

It seems this year’s successful fan-orchestrated attempt to get the Foo Fighers to play a homecoming show in Richmond, Virginia has sparked global inspiration and now one northern Italian city is hoping to lure the Foos to them, by forming a 1,000-person Foo Fighters cover band. No, really.

Meet the brains, Fabio Zaffagnini, a resident of the town of Cesena in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. He explains in the video below, in Italian, that the idea to try and convince the US rockers to visit his town was sparked one morning when he received a, presumably telepathic, call from Grohl himself.

Thus began his quest, and after getting his initially sceptical friends on board with the idea he is now appealing to the broader public. His plan is to gather 1000 musicians in one place for a simultaneous live performance of the Foo’s 1999 hit Learn to Fly and virtually serenade Grohl and co. to Cesena, as well as nab a spot in the Guinness World Records.

According to his movement’s website, logistically they’ll need 250 singers, 350 guitarists, 150 bassists and 250 drummers to achieve this feat as well as volunteers, donations and your prayers.

They’re hoping to raise about 40,000 Euros to realise their dream and they’re currently collecting funds via crowdfunding platform Idea Ginger. Here, a donation of 10 Euros will score you a cool beer on the day of, while if you ramp that up to 20 you’ll also get to try a piadina, a special Emilia-Romagna flat bread sandwich.

If all goes to plan the mass performance will go down in July 2015. It may just work too, seeing as Dave Grohl has already conceded that fan organised shows could be future of how bands determine where to tour.

“For the past 20 years we always decided who we’re going to play with and where we’re going to play, he told South African radio station 5FM earlier this year. “But now, if we hear that people want us to come somewhere, maybe we’ll come there.”

See Fabio explain it all in the video below.

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