desensitized43 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Oh man that’s so devastating for his young family. Waited years to see the foos and finally got tickets for villa park. Not sure I want to go now, if they somehow manage to continue. He was so integral to the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 2 hours ago, will87 said: Taylor Hawkins, 50, drummer for Foo Fighters. Shocker. Did a brilliant job adding lyrics to Dennis Wilson's Holy Man track back in 2008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Taylor Hawkins is a real shock. Only a few years older than me too. Great drummer and apparently a decent guy too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 Absolute shocker...gutted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Although his band's music leaves me cold, I respect that he was very good at what he did, and he seemed like a good bloke. Sad to hear Taylor Hawkins died. RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I've never been a big Foo Fighters fan but they have a couple of songs from the early/mid 00's that just bring back that pure nostalgic feeling of Red Balloon and Subculture in the Birmingham Academy, they've got a fair few decent songs. Shame though, he was pretty well respected as a drummer wasn't he,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 4 hours ago, will87 said: Taylor Hawkins, 50, drummer for Foo Fighters. Noooooo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 26, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 26, 2022 Taylor was my favourite member of the Foos. I mean, I play drums so I'm some ways not a surprise, but he was always so enthusiastic about his music and his drumming and so respectful of all his peers. He was such a knowledge bank of drumming and its history, he made so many documentaries about other drummers and their influence and was always a fascinating listen. Like everyone else it seems I like the Foos but don't really love them - was tempted by the Villa Park gig but not enough to actually get tickets, and if I had have gone it probably would have been mostly to see Taylor play anyway. A big loss to music indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Absolute shocker. Terrible news, RIP Taylor. Had tickets for the VP gig cuz the Foo Fighters are one of our favourite bands. Can't see them replacing him and tbh not sure they'd want to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, dubbs said: Absolute shocker. Terrible news, RIP Taylor. Had tickets for the VP gig cuz the Foo Fighters are one of our favourite bands. Can't see them replacing him and tbh not sure they'd want to. I know a bird who has got tickets for the Manchester gig, do you reckon they'll cancel them? Dave Grohl kind of comes across as the kind of "show much go on" type of dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Terrible news, a great drummer and massive Dennis Wilson fan, see Holy Man below (great tune)... I was never a fan of the Foos but he was a talented guy. R.I.P 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 For about three of my most formative years, Foo Fighters were my absolute favourite band. Admittedly, it was very much the Dave Grohl show for me, but Hawkins was a big part of my life too. While I don’t really listen to them anymore, this is still kind of heartbreaking news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 30 minutes ago, leemond2008 said: I know a bird who has got tickets for the Manchester gig, do you reckon they'll cancel them? Dave Grohl kind of comes across as the kind of "show much go on" type of dude. I see then being postponed at the very least. Taylor and Dave seemed to have a very close relationship, and he'd been with the band 20 years. I hope they continue but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Wow, absolute shocker. I saw him do a few interviews recently and he speaks very well. 50 is no age, but as we know rock stars constantly touring does take its toll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 One for the VT Foo Fighters and Queen fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Sad. Again, like others they were a band I liked but never loved from the late nineties to about the mid 2000’s. I drifted away and lost interest in their stuff I guess after The Pretender era. A huge drummer. Smashes the shit out of his kit. Cool dude. Man, the more of the people you admire that pass it really reminds you that this is it ain’t it, one chance and all that…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Real shame, him like the rest of the band seem like nice guys which is sadly a rare thing. As for Foo Fighters they were never my thing. Feels a bit like a rock version of Coldplay in that I find them a bit boring. One of the guys I shared an apartment with at Uni loved them thou so listened a lot to their early stuff. Again, really sad stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 The Foos’ early stuff was, if not extremely interesting, then at least brilliantly fun straight up rock music combined with an ability to make catchy hit tunes with the finesse of the most polished of pop artists, Everlong being the obvious, but perfect example of their ability to make some almost irresistable songs at their peak. That, and their almost parodically amiable personalities - have you ever heard a bad word about any of them? - gives them a special place in my heart. Musically, we grew apart a long time ago, but the Foo Fighters, f*** man, are absolute legends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I don't mind them, stopped buying their albums about 5/6 years back but still give their stuff at least one run through and they tend to have a listenable poppy rock song on each album Its right that all of them seem like genuinely good likeable fun guys with wide appreciative taste in music so you never really see a bad word said about them, I'd listen to some interviews from them still even if I wasn't listening to the music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I won't harsh people's buzz out the foo fighters but there are bad words, their links to AIDS denialists and support of anti vax organisations. That said maybe that backing was down to misinformation or a lack of education on their part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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