Dave Grohl described his late Foo Fighters bandmate Taylor Hawkins as his "brother from one other mom."
First, Dave Grohl misplaced Kurt Cobain after the Nirvana frontman dedicated suicide in 1994.
Now, after the surprising, sudden dying of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins Friday in Bogotá, Colombia — which authorities say could also be tied to medication — it marks the second time that Grohl has misplaced considered one of his beloved bandmates.
Final month, earlier than the opening of the Foos’ horror-comedy “Studio 666,” Grohl informed The Publish simply how a lot he believed within the brotherhood of being in a band. Actually, he stated that’s why he by no means went solo in his profession as a two-time Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer.
“You already know, I like being in a band, man,” stated Grohl, 53. “Like, I don’t know what it might really feel like if I walked onstage and I didn’t know the keyboard participant, or I didn’t know the drummer, or they had been folks that had been simply employed to return out and play these songs. I don’t know — I don’t know if I would really like that. I actually assume I wouldn’t.”
Certainly, regardless of the ache of getting already misplaced Cobain, Grohl had discovered an excellent deeper band bond with Hawkins and the Foos. “There’s one thing about strolling onstage together with your guys. There’s a safety in that,” he stated. “There’s one thing about being a gaggle, that it’s not simply me towards the world — it’s us towards the world. I don’t know what it’s wish to be a solo artist, however I do know what it’s wish to be in a f—king band. And I gotta say, it feels good.”
In his 2021 memoir “The Storyteller,” Grohl known as Hawkins his “brother from one other mom, my greatest buddy, a person for whom I might take a bullet.”
Additionally in his guide, Grohl recounts how there was an instantaneous connection when Hawkins joined the Foo Fighters in 1997. “Upon first assembly, our bond was instant, and we grew nearer with every single day, each music, each word that we ever performed collectively,” he writes. “We're completely meant to be, and I'm grateful that we discovered one another on this lifetime.”
The Foo Fighters — who had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame final October — had been hours away from enjoying the Picnic Stereo Pageant in Bogotá when Hawkins died. And after rocking the live performance reopening of Madison Sq. Backyard final June, the band was able to roar in entrance of crowds once more, with extra tour dates scheduled to return in 2022.
“When you began to appreciate that we had been dwelling in a brand new world and won't expertise these issues that we took as a right earlier than,” Grohl stated, “there was this worry, like, ‘Maintain on a second — I want that. Like, I want an viewers to share this with. I have to really feel that communal vitality. I want to take a look at somebody’s eyes as we’re singing a music collectively. Truthfully, it’s that tangible precise bodily expertise that makes it particular.”
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