An early toxicology report states that Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had 10 totally different psychoactive substances in his system when he died final night time in Bogota, Columbia on the age of fifty.
The Workplace of the Lawyer Common of Colombia released a statement that stopped wanting categorizing Hawkins’ loss of life as an overdose, however stated preliminary toxicology assessments discovered 10 totally different substances, together with marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.
Hawkins was reportedly discovered useless in his resort room in Bogota, the place Foo Fighters had been scheduled to carry out at Competition Estereo Picnic. The band confirmed his loss of life by way of social media.
Earlier at the moment, Bogata’s Secretariat of Well being issued a statement explaining that an ambulance responded to an emergency name stating that Hawkins was struggling chest pains.
“The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and premature loss of life of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” the group stated of their assertion. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will dwell on with all of us endlessly. Our hearts exit to his spouse, kids and household, and we ask that their privateness be handled with the utmost respect on this unimaginably tough time.”
Hawkins joined Foo Fighters in 1997, after serving because the Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer for 2 years in help of her blockbuster Jagged Little Tablet album. He and Foo Fighters bandleader Dave Grohl developed a robust rapport and mutual respect.
“I would met Dave on tour with Alanis,” Hawkins later recalled. “She stated, what are you going to do when Dave asks you to hitch the Foo Fighters?” When Hawkins discovered that Foo Fighters drummer William Goldsmith had left the band, “I discovered the quantity [for Grohl]. ‘Dude! I’ll be your drummer!'”
Hawkins performed drums on eight consecutive Foo Fighters albums: There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), One by One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Persistence & Grace (2007), Losing Gentle (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete and Gold (2017) and Medication at Midnight (2021). He additionally carried out on Hail Satin, the band’s 2021 Bee Gees tribute album.
Moreover, the rocker launched three albums with the Coattail Riders, one LP along with his prog-rock facet mission the Birds of Devil, and fronted the rock ‘n’ roll cowl band Chevy Metallic, which toured often for greater than a decade.
Hawkins was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2021 as a member of Foo Fighters. He performed his closing present 5 days earlier than his loss of life, on March 20 at Lollapalooza Argentina. “You already know the most effective factor about Taylor Hawkins, he is the most effective fucking drummer on the earth,” Grohl stated that night time. “We love him a lot.”
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