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Well, this is just shocking. Hawkins was only 50. I know he had struggles with alcohol, but I was under the impression that he had kicked it. Very sad news for the Foo Fighters. He was also in Police cover band.
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I didn’t really tune into him when I saw the Foo at BottleRock. Grohl was upstaging him.
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Quote:Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born Feb. 17, 1972, in Fort Worth, Texas, and he moved with his family to Laguna Beach, Calif., when he was 4 years old. After playing in the Orange County prog-rock band Sylvia, he got his first big break drumming for Canadian rock singer Sass Jordan. Then, in June 1995, he became the drummer for Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill tour. In March 1997, he quit his job with Morissette to join the Foo Fighters, shortly after the release of the Foos’ second studio album, The Colour and the Shape.
Hawkins became a core member of the Foo Fighters, not only drumming but also singing and playing guitar and piano on various tracks, and co-writing on every Foos album starting with their third LP, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. He also became Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl’s closest friend. In Grohl’s 2021 autobiography The Storyteller, Grohl referred to Hawkins his “brother from another mother, my best friend, a man for whom I would take a bullet” and recalled, “Upon first meeting, our bond was immediate, and we grew closer with every day, every song, every note that we ever played together. We are absolutely meant to be, and I am grateful that we found each other in this lifetime.”
This past year and a half was an especially busy time for the Foo Fighters, with the release of their 10th album Medicine at Midnight, Record Store Day disco covers collection Hail Satin, and horror-comedy movie Studio 666; their performance at President Joe Biden’s inauguration celebration; and their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021. The Foos are nominated for three Grammys this year, and were scheduled to perform at the 64th annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Las Vegas on April 3.
Although Hawkins was best known for his work with the Foo Fighters, he had a long and illustrious résumé. DRUM! magazine placed him on its list of the 60 Best Rock Drummers of All Time, and he was voted Best Rock Drummer overall by the British drumming magazine Rhythm in 2005. One of Hawkins’s biggest early influences, Stewart Copeland of the Police, once even said, “Taylor is in that John Bonham school of drummer.”
Over the course of his 25-plus-year career, Hawkins recorded and/or played with Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, Brian May and Queen, Slash, Pink, Ozzy Osbourne, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Joe Walsh, Coheed and Cambria, John Fogerty, Glen Campbell, Richard Marx, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Perry Farrell and Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, and many others. Additionally, he fronted two bands, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders and the Birds of Satan; led the classic rock cover band Chevy Metal; and had recently formed the supergroup NHC with Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney. He also portrayed Iggy Pop in the 2013 film CBGB.
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According to preliminary toxicology reports, Mr. Hawkins had ten different drugs in his system at the time of his death.
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Mike Vanderhule is a classmate of mine who I met for the first time at our reunion over the summer. We shared pizza at Jake's. He's also the current drummer for Y&T. He has these thoughts about an encounter he had with Taylor Hawkins.
Quote:In shock. So sad! RIP Taylor Hawkins.
A quick Taylor Hawkins story. 2001 or 2002 I was in Cabo and went to Cabo Wabo, Sammy wasn’t in town, I just wanted to see the club. There was a commotion in the corner by the stage and all of a sudden Taylor jumps up and sings a song, kills it. Then he jumps on drums and introduces the one and only Roger Taylor, legendary drummer from queen, for those of you who don’t know, and Roger sang rock ‘n’ roll by Led Zeppelin, It was awesome! After the show I was getting a burrito on the street, absorbing some of the alcohol, and these two drunk guys come walking down the dirt road arm in arm. Nobody recognized them, and I jumped off my stool and walked out there to extended my hand to Roger. I told him I was a professional drummer and how much I admired him and what his career meant to me, for me that was like meeting Ringo or Charlie Watts. Then I turned to Taylor and said, "Any other time man I"… and before I could even get it out he said, “I know, me too!“ And proceeded to bow to Roger along with me. If we only had cell phones with cameras back then. This was a fun hang (below) at a Guitar Center Drum Off final in LA years ago.
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Sigh.
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Anyone going to London?
https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/taylor-ha...st/5384731
Quote:[b]Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert Tickets[/b]
LINE UP
[*]Foo Fighters
[*]Josh Homme
[*]Liam Gallagher
[*]Brian May and Roger Taylor
[*]Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
[*]Chrissie Hynde
[*]Mark Ronson
[*]Supergrass
[*]Stewart Copeland
[*]Chris Chaney
[*]Omar Hakim
[*]Rufus Taylor
[*]Wolfgang Van Halen
[*]Chevy Metal
[*]Dave Chappelle
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More acts to be announced...
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Looks like a smashing time...
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https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/taylor-h...-plus.html
Quote:The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London is now set to be streamed on Paramount+, presented by Paramount in association with both the late drummer’s former band, the Foo Fighters, and the Hawkins family. The performance will be on September 3, and it will stream live on Paramount+ starting at 11:30 a.m. ET domestically, with Pluto TV and MTV YouTube channels streaming it internationally. Afterward, the concert will be available on demand on Paramount+ and via Pluto TV and MTV video on demand starting the week of September 5.
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