First, Dave Grohl misplaced Kurt Cobain after the Nirvana frontman dedicated suicide in 1994.
Now, after the surprising, sudden loss of life of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins Friday in Bogotá, Colombia — which authorities say could also be tied to medicine — it marks the second time that Grohl has misplaced one in all his beloved bandmates.
Final month, earlier than the opening of the Foos’ horror-comedy “Studio 666,” Grohl advised The Submit simply how a lot he believed within the brotherhood of being in a band. In truth, he mentioned that’s why he by no means went solo in his profession as a two-time Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer.
“You understand, I like being in a band, man,” mentioned Grohl, 53. “Like, I don’t know what it will really feel like if I walked onstage and I didn’t know the keyboard participant, or I didn’t know the drummer, or they had been people who had been simply employed to return out and play these songs. I don’t know — I don’t know if I would love that. I actually suppose I wouldn’t.”
Certainly, regardless of the ache of getting already misplaced Cobain, Grohl had discovered an excellent deeper band bond with Hawkins and the Foos. “There’s one thing about strolling onstage together with your guys. There’s a safety in that,” he mentioned. “There’s one thing about being a gaggle, that it’s not simply me in opposition to the world — it’s us in opposition to the world. I don’t know what it’s prefer to be a solo artist, however I do know what it’s prefer to be in a f—king band. And I gotta say, it feels good.”
In his 2021 memoir “The Storyteller,” Grohl referred to as Hawkins his “brother from one other mom, my greatest buddy, a person for whom I might take a bullet.”
Additionally in his ebook, Grohl recounts how there was an immediate connection when Hawkins joined the Foo Fighters in 1997. “Upon first assembly, our bond was instant, and we grew nearer with every single day, each music, each observe that we ever performed collectively,” he writes. “We’re completely meant to be, and I’m grateful that we discovered one another on this lifetime.”
The Foo Fighters — who had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame final October — had been hours away from enjoying the Picnic Stereo Competition in Bogotá when Hawkins died. And after rocking the live performance reopening of Madison Sq. Backyard final June, the band was able to roar in entrance of crowds once more, with extra tour dates scheduled to return in 2022.
“When you began to comprehend that we had been residing in a brand new world and may not expertise these issues that we took with no consideration earlier than,” Grohl mentioned, “there was this worry, like, ‘Maintain on a second — I would like that. Like, I would like an viewers to share this with. I have to really feel that communal power. I would like to have a look at somebody’s eyes as we’re singing a music collectively.’ Actually, it’s that tangible precise bodily expertise that makes it particular.”
