BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- They packed a 50,000 seat football stadium just over a year ago. So what is the multi-platinum band Foo Fighters -- one of the top selling rock bands in the industry -- doing playing a show at the tiny Nile Theater in Bakersfield? A place that squeezes in 700 people, standing? At $30 a pop, they’re barely covering the electric bill.

Answer: This is all about gratitude, good will and friendship. That, anyway, is our best guess, based on our limited clues.

One: The sold-out Monday night show is a huge bonanza for the 119-year-old Nile Theater, which has been under the Fox Theater umbrella for two years and needed a break-out show to earn from street cred.

“A lot of people don’t realize the Nile is open again and this is definitely gonna open people’s eyes,” s

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