Foo Fighters were gearing up for a new phase of their own curated festivals when that thing happened that paused the world in early 2020. After staging Cal Jam in San Bernardino, California in 2017 and 2018, Dave Grohl’s band were set to take it to the other side of the States for D.C. Jam, due to take place in Baltimore in summer 2020 but that for reasons you-know-why never happened.
Since then, the Foos’ world has dramatically changed with the tragic death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022 and a grieving period of working out how they would move forward. They began to do that with last year’s poignant But Here We Are, the unveiling of new drummer Josh Freese and a tour that will roll on for most of 2024, but there has been no talk of staging their own festival again. If they never revisit the idea, they have left behind some special memories: Grohl made sure that magical things happened at Cal Jam, such as when the Foos’ headline show in 2018 concluded with a Nirvana reunion special.
