Three years later, with drummer William Goldsmith departing, Texas-born Hawkins joined the band after previously being the drummer with the Alanis Morissette band. The Foo Fighters were formed in 1994 by Dave Grohl, who had been the drummer with Nirvana. Hawkins’ beginnings with the Foo Fighters, and as a musician News of Hawkins’ death came a day after the band announced it would take the stage at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on April 3. Later, candles were placed on the main stage as a vigil for Hawkins, and the screens on five stages projected the message, “Taylor Hawkins Por Siempre,” which translates as “Taylor Hawkins Forever.” We found out about 10 to 15 minutes later,” he said. But like I said, nobody knew that Taylor had died. “No one knew the reason for the cancellation. About 10 minutes later, the news broke that Taylor had died,” Reyes said. “We were getting into position when they announced that the Foo Fighters would not be performing, but they didn’t say why. Keep scrolling for a look back at Grohl and Hawkins’ friendship through the years.Taylor Hawkins Arturo Holmes/Getty Imagesįriday’s performance was canceled just as fans were gathering at 11 p.m., according to Romeo Reyes, who told CNN he traveled from El Salvador to Bogotá to attend the festival. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.”Ī cause of death was not immediately determined, but Colombian authorities released a preliminary toxicology report claiming that Hawkins had 10 substances in his body at the time of his death, including marijuana, opioids and antidepressants. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. “The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the band wrote at the time. The band announced the news in a statement shared via social media. The Texas native was found dead in a hotel room in Bogotá, Colombia, while the Foo Fighters were in the country for the South American leg of their tour. The two men were still traveling the world together playing music until Hawkins’ death in March 2022 at age 50. “I just thought, ‘I want to travel the world with this guy, I want to jump on stage and drink beers with this person.’ That was my biggest concern.” “When he joined the band, his drumming was the least important factor,” Grohl told NME in February 2021. Though the Queens of the Stone Age collaborator was impressed by Hawkins’ percussion skills, he was equally as intrigued by his personality. Together, we have become an unstoppable duo, onstage and off, in pursuit of any and all adventure we can find.” “I am not afraid to say that our chance meeting was a kind of love at first sight, igniting a musical ‘twin flame’ that still burns to this day. “Upon first meeting, our bond was immediate, and we grew closer with every day, every song, every note that we ever played together,” Grohl wrote in his 2021 memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. When Foo Fighters’ original drummer, William Goldsmith, left the band during the recording of their debut album, The Colour and the Shape, Grohl tapped Hawkins as his replacement. The late musician and Grohl kept bumping into each other on the tour circuit. Hawkins, meanwhile, was working as a drummer for Alanis Morissette, whose debut solo album, Jagged Little Pill, blew up after its release in June 1995. The Ohio native later initially thought he wouldn’t play music again after the loss of his bandmate, but by late 1994, he had started work on the project that would become Foo Fighters. In April 1994, however, the band’s career came to a tragic end when frontman Kurt Cobain died by suicide at age 27. When the duo first met in the mid-1990s, Grohl was already world famous as the drummer for Nirvana. Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl played together in Foo Fighters for 25 years, but their friendship also flourished outside the studio.
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