The line stretching around 15th Street towards Union Square in New York on Thursday was a familiar sight. Foo Fighters had done this exact same underplay — an intimate show at the 1,200-capacity Irving Plaza — in the fall of 2014, with roughly the same stand in line-style ticketing format and the intriguing promise of getting to see the stadium-ready Foo Fighters with much more immediacy. Back then, I cut class for the day, stood in line, but couldn’t manage to get tickets; on Thursday, I was there on assignment. As their show last night suggested, a lot has changed for Foo Fighters in 12 years. The 2014 show arrived in support of Sonic Highways , a rather ambitious Foo Fighters album that came with an accompanying HBO documentary series; last night, they didn’t play  any songs off that album. They very notably have a new drummer in tow — Ilan Rubin, who swapped roles with fellow rock drumming favorite Josh Freese in 2025.…