Taylor Hawkins, drummer of the Foo Fighters, RIP
My hero.
Yesterday I sent around the tracks for the new album of the fictional band from the Foo Fighters-movie Studio 666. Today I’m floored to inform you that drummer Taylor Hawkins died at the age of 50 touring in Columbia. He was found in his hotel room, cause of death is yet unknown.
The Foo Fighters album The Colour and the Shape featuring the classics Monkey Wrench, My Hero and Everlong was the very first album I bought after more than a decade I exclusively listened to electronic music, techno and house from roughly 1990 to 2000. The Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins made me rock again. What a loss.
Goodbye, Taylor, and thanks for all the drumsolos.
Fuck.
Here’s Taylor performing Somebody to love by Queen with Dave Grohl on the drums.
Sad day.
Rolling Stone: Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead at 50
Taylor Hawkins, the jovial, ferocious drummer for Foo Fighters for more than two decades, has died at the age of 50, according to a statement from the band.
“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” read the message, which was posted to social media. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever.” Foo Fighters are currently on tour in South America and were scheduled to perform at Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogotá, Colombia, at the time of Hawkins’ death, a rep for the band told Rolling Stone. No cause of death was given. (…)
(Dave) Grohl (referred) to the drummer as his “best friend and partner in crime” in his 2021 autobiography, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. “During his stint as Alanis Morissette’s drummer, long before he became a Foo Fighter, we would bump into each other backstage at festivals all over the world, and our chemistry was so obvious that even Alanis herself once asked him, ‘What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?'” Grohl wrote. “Part Beavis and Butthead, part Dumb and Dumber, we were a hyperactive blur of Parliament Lights and air drumming wherever we went.”