Dave Grohl’s Birthday Foo Fighters Show to Help the Homeless

Hope the Mission and Los Angeles Mission benefitted from a fun night with the Foo Fighters Wednesday when the band performed their second show of 2026 to help the homeless -it also coincided with frontman Dave Grohl’s 57^th birthday.  The band played for over two hours with plenty of breaks in between for Grohl’s typical commentary about the band, the fans, the night, and life in general. 

Jason Falkner subbed in for the recently injured Pat Smear on guitar, newer drummer Ilan Rubin was on drums, and they cranked out hit-after-hit to remind folks who the big boys are.  Grohl exudes a conversational confidence that always can lighten the mood of music that can sometimes be more serious than the band’s personality.

Pat Smear was shown on video at the start of the show to wish Dave a happy birthday and introduce the Foo Fighters.  Of course, Nate Mendel was on bass, Chris Shiflett guitar, and Rami Jaffee on keyboards.  The band on stage also played “Happy Birthday to You” and a bit of The Beatles song, “Birthday” after “Walk”.  “No Son of Mine” had an excerpt from Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades”.   Fans also sung and shouted ‘happy birthday’ as well.  The setlist was mostly similar to their show on January 10 at the Velaria de la Feria in Leon, Mexico.

My Hero

All My Life

Times Like These

The Pretender

La Dee Da

These Days

Walk

Stacked Actors

Learn to Fly

Run

This Is a Call

No Son of Mine

Under You

Aurora

White Limo

Arlandria

Monkey Wrench

Hey Johnny Park

Best of You

Encore:

Exhausted

Everlong