Anti-Vaxxers Protest At Agoura Hills Foo Fighters Concert

AGOURA HILLS, CA — A crowd of anti-vaxxers were "goin’ down swingin’" Tuesday night in Agoura Hills.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Canyon Club, where the Foo Fighters were playing a sold-out show for around 600 people, their first show since the start of the pandemic. In order to attend the jam-packed indoor venue, concertgoers had to show proof of vaccination, a requirement some protesters likened to “segregation.”

Footage from Tuesday’s demonstration shows picketers comparing vaccination policy to Jim Crow racial segregation, and calling the Foo Fighters “farma sellouts.”

“And what they’re doing is saying only vax people, separating humans is not ok,” one of the protesters told KCAL News while holding a sign calling the Foo Fighters’ policy “modern segregation.”

“Those of us who have healthy immune systems should be able to enjoy these freedoms like everything else.”

The band received a barrage of social media hate as well, including former child actor and anti-vaxxer Ricky Schroder. “Dave Grohl is an ignorant punk who needs slapped for supporting Discrimination,” Schroder wrote on Facebook of the Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer. “Ignorance comes in all shapes & sizes. Kurt Cobain is laughing at you Dave along with Millions of Patriots...Fool.”

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Another Twitter user declared he would throw away all the band’s records. Another called the band an “Enemy of the people,” while another accused them of “coercion.”

Foo Fighters, a band I've long admired, just held a concert for the jabbed only.

That's every album & play list with them on, consigned to the bin.
— La Haine (@LloydyLloyd6) June 9, 2021

Others posted support of the band’s policies. “No crybaby trumpeters in the crowd will make a MUCH better show,” wrote one user who said he is a new fan of the band. “Lose a dumb fan, gain a smart one!”

“The unvaccinated are a risk to closing down all these venues again,” wrote another.

Grohl, who has spoken out publicly against President Trump and his push to reopen schools during the height of the pandemic and participated in “L.A.’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World”, has not commented on the protests. He has only tweeted about his excitement at performing live - first in Agoura Hills, then at New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 20, a show that will also require proof of vaccination in accordance with New York state guidelines.

“Tonight we’re gonna play until the cops get called or I [f---ing] collapse,” Grohl tweeted about the Agoura Hills show, a somewhat prescient statement given that there was a police presence outside the show to monitor the protesters.

Grohl promised New Yorkers a “long ass night of screaming our heads off together to 26 years of Foos.”

We’ve been waiting for this day for over a year. And @TheGarden is going to feel that HARD. New York, get ready for a long ass night of screaming our heads off together to 26 years of Foos.

Public on sale 6/11 @ 10am ET.https://t.co/0V7EIMcIll#FF26 pic.twitter.com/ZyrIqzyjH5
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) June 8, 2021

The concert marked perhaps the first major indoor music event in Southern California since Tuesday’s reopening, which canceled social distancing, capacity, and most masking requirements. Tickets were only sold in-person, and one fan told KCAL he waited 16 hours to get a ticket.