Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters drummer

Queen drummer, Roger Taylor, was honoured with an OBE (Order Of The British Empire award) at Windsor Castle on March 30, and he dedicated it to late Foo ...

It was revealed on March 25 that Taylor Hawkins had passed away at the age of 50. He was the most wonderful man and I can’t quite believe that I’m not going to see him again." Queen drummer, Roger Taylor, was honoured with an OBE (Order Of The British Empire award) at Windsor Castle on March 30, and he dedicated it to late Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins.

Taylor Hawkins fans and childhood friends are remembering him in his SoCal hometown with a pretty fitting tribute on the same beach where he loved to surf.

Although he'd gained worldwide fame, and even been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year ... his friends say Taylor never gave off rock star energy when he was there. As we reported, Taylor was found dead last Friday in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia ... where Foo was scheduled to play. Taylor Hawkins fans and childhood friends are remembering him in his SoCal hometown with a pretty fitting tribute on the same beach where he loved to surf.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died at 50 during the rock group's tour of South America, joined the band in 1997. Hawkins understood the mechanics ...

Taylor Hawkins understood the mechanics and history of the genre and his place in it but also — and this is every bit as crucial — how to never let it go to his head. Opener “Making a Fire” appears to ponder the question of what Soundgarden might sound like in the ’70s. (I was geeked to learn that Grohl and Hawkins grew a tight bond as bandmates in part from jamming together on Soundgarden riffs.) When Chris Cornell passed, Hawkins spoke out about seeing the grunge pioneer’s work as a nexus between prog rock, glam rock, and metal. This was supposed to be an upbeat year for the Foo Fighters. My heart breaks for the band, for the families, and for everyone touched by Hawkins through work or personal acquaintance. I found out about Hawkins’s death while attending a ’70s-themed party at a bar that played a lot of Queen. I thought about seeing the Foo Fighters at Madison Square Garden, where we were treated to a cover of “Under Pressure” with Grohl on drums and Hawkins on vocals, in 2018. The enduring Foo Fighters singles — “Times Like These,” “Learn to Fly,” “Best of You,” “Everlong” — all talk about summoning the inner strength required to weather trying times. Death strips away our ability to control the narratives people accept about us, as they go looking for signs that it was imminent, when at the root of a terrible shock like this one is the inability to know it was going to happen. But it was a bit of an oversimplification of the story of the band to say it’s been the last of everyone’s struggle. You didn’t expect the blond drummer in board shorts to be able to get around the jarring turns a serviceable Freddie Mercury cover entails, but he sold it every night with the same mix of self-effacing humor and reliable musicianship that informs the finest work of the Foo Fighters and much of Hawkins’s own work as the singer-songwriter in his band, the Coattail Riders. “Everlong” and “Learn to Fly” tug at your heartstrings as the videos tickle your funny bone, just as songs like “Way Down,” off Hawkins’s 2010 album, Red Light Fever, or “I Really Blew It,” from the 2019 follow-up, Get the Money, offset sincere emotional distress with knowing, ’70s party-rock pastiche. It’s worth noting that the reason Grohl and Hawkins split drum duties on There Is Nothing Left to Lose was to boost the drummer’s confidence by easing him into the process of making records. “The whole idea with the Foo Fighters is to be a continuation of life,” Grohl explained. It was Cobain and Krist Novoselic’s contributions to Mark Lanegan’s 1990 album, The Winding Sheet, that led me to the late legend’s solo catalogue in the years before he snatched souls in Queens of the Stone Age. He didn’t get integrated into new material until 1999’s There Is Nothing Left to Lose, but Hawkins sat in on the radio sessions from the spring of 1997 that yielded a series of great covers originally spread out across the singles from that year’s The Colour and the Shape (which would later settle into odds-and-ends collections like Medium Rare and 00979725). On “Requiem,” originally from post-punk legends Killing Joke’s 1980 self-titled album, Hawkins flexed his power and control.

The Foo Fighters cancelled all their upcoming concerts after the sudden death of Taylor Hawkins while on the South American leg of their world tour.

The band had been due to perform at the Grammys, considered the biggest night in music. It is not known whether the band will be attending. The band had been due to perform at the Estereo Picnic festival on the night of his death.

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The life of Foo Fighters drummer and Laguna Beach High School alumnus Taylor Hawkins was celebrated by about 200 people who attended a drum circle Thursday.

Hawkins died March 25 in Bogotá, Colombia. He was 50 years old. In July 2012, Hawkins rocked the White House restaurant for a Mauli Oli Foundation benefit. Hawkins had also been involved in supporting Laguna Beach schools.

Community members and music fans participated in a drum circle at Aliso Beach to honor Foo Fighters drummer and Laguna Beach local Taylor Hawkins on ...

It was a way the community wanted to remember him.” It was the necessary thing to do. “There was no other choice but to put this on today,” Steinfeld said of the drum circle. He’s the only guy of the band that we always bumped into because he’s so much outside, trying to take care of himself. “He was always walking downtown, [riding a] bicycle, and so we would just bump into each other. “To see the community support and that he really had such an impact on so many people in Laguna and all over the world is amazing,” said Chris Davison, who considered Hawkins a family friend.

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has paid tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins in a compilation video.

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ newest album, “Unlimited Love,” released on April 1. “I have to give a shoutout to my brother Taylor Hawkins. I love you, Taylor,” Smith said in his speech. “Taylor’s my good buddy who I’ve known forever,” Smith says during an interview clip at the beginning of the video.