Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25 at age 50, took every opportunity to salute his musical heroes, the most frequently name-checked of whom were Rush’s Neil Peart, Queen’s Roger…
Hawkins, Dave Grohl and their Foo Fighters bandmates loved nothing more than to jam with their idols, whether it be in front of 80,000 people at a London soccer stadium or in front of friends-and-family audiences at the band’s cozy Studio 606 in Los Angeles.
In fact, I was just coming off stage with the Nashville Symphony. It was a triumph. The hotel was a block and a half away. I go straight off the stage, out the door, over to the hotel and I’m in the shower before the audience is even out of the building. I’m loving life. The endorphins are pumping out of every pore. I got dressed and walked down to the bar, and that’s when I found out. The only way to get through that night was disbelief.
Klark Kent was your pre-Police solo project and is pretty obscure, even for music nerds. I guess that goes to show how much you have meant to the Foos as a musical inspiration. No matter who you are, you’ve gotta serve somebody. In my case, that would be Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, Cream. There’s a simple hierarchy. Amongst musicians, we have a very simple rule to follow so that we can all relax amongst each other and enjoy each other’s company. And that is chronology: whoever went first is boss. I bow down before Ringo, and the people who came after me treat me as if I’m a Beatle, which is crazy.
There’s a video of you playing the Police’s “Next to You” with the Foos at the Forum in 2008, and Taylor comes up onto your drum riser and is air-drumming and jumping up and down. It was pure fandom shining through. When Neil first passed, I got a message that afternoon from one of his crew. They met up that night in a restaurant. When I went down there, I was kind of cheerful thinking about how Neil had outlived his diagnosis. Of course, his family and [Rush’s] Alex [Lifeson] and Geddy [Lee] were just devastated. A couple weeks later when they had the memorial, they had recovered a little bit and were able to smile and remember the good times.
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