UPDATE #2: Like Matt Cameron (see beneath) Chad Smith has launched an announcement distancing himself from the Rolling Stone report. “Taylor was one in all my finest mates and I might do something for his household,” the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers drummer informed Yahoo Entertainment. “I used to be requested by Rolling Stone to speak about Taylor for a tribute article and I definitely didn’t anticipate it to be a chunk about his final days. Had I identified that, I by no means would have talked to the journal, and I apologize for any ache my participation within the article might have induced his household and his musical mates. I miss him on daily basis.”
UPDATE: Drummer Matt Cameron distanced himself from the Rolling Stone report in a statement shared to Instagram on Tuesday. “Once I agreed to participate within the Rolling Stone article about Taylor, I assumed it could be a celebration of his life and work,” he wrote. “My quotes had been taken out of context and formed right into a narrative I had by no means supposed. Taylor was an expensive good friend, and a subsequent degree artist. I miss him. I’ve solely the deepest love and respect for Taylor, Dave and the Foo Fighters households. I’m actually sorry to have taken half on this interview and I apologize that my participation might have induced hurt to these for whom I’ve solely the deepest respect and admiration.”
A brand new report has steered that Taylor Hawkins was burned out by the Foo Fighters’ demanding schedule previous to his demise.
In a lately revealed story, Rolling Stone interviewed a number of of Hawkins’ shut mates, together with Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and Chad Smith of Pink Scorching Chili Peppers. Each musicians recalled that the late Foo Fighters drummer had complained about his band’s exhaustive work schedule.
“He informed me that he ‘couldn’t fucking do it anymore’ — these had been his phrases,” Cameron revealed, including that he believed Hawkins and Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl had engaged in a “heart-to-heart” on the subject. “So I suppose they did come to some understanding, nevertheless it simply looks like the touring schedule received even crazier after that.”
“He tried to maintain up,” Cameron famous. “He simply did no matter it took to maintain up, and in the long run he couldn’t sustain.”
“Truthfully, I feel he was simply so drained,” opined Sass Jordan, the Canadian singer who gave Hawkins his first skilled job and remained shut mates with the drummer. “Bored with the entire recreation.”
Jordan recalled texting with Hawkins about getting collectively the following time the Foo Fighters performed in Toronto. “And he goes, ‘Oh, my fucking God. I can’t have a look at the goddamn tour schedule. It provides me nervousness.’”
Hawkins was rumored to have misplaced consciousness throughout a flight final December. On the time, stories didn’t establish which member of the Foo Fighters acquired medical consideration. “He simply mentioned he was exhausted and collapsed, and so they needed to pump him filled with IVs and stuff,” Smith defined to Rolling Stone. In keeping with the Pink Scorching Chili Peppers drummer, that incident was “one of many straws that broke the camel’s again.” “After that, [Hawkins] had an actual necessary heart-to-heart with Dave and the administration. He mentioned, ‘I can’t proceed on this schedule, and so we’ve received to determine one thing.’”
A consultant for the Foo Fighters and their administration denied all the stories given to Rolling Stone. “No, there was by no means a ‘heart-to-heart’ — or any form of assembly on this subject — with Dave and [Silva Artist Management],” the consultant insisted, including that Hawkins “by no means knowledgeable Dave and [management]” of his emotions concerning the band’s schedule. Not one of the band’s members, nor any of Hawkins’ household, agreed to be interviewed for the story.
Hawkins’ official reason for demise has nonetheless not been introduced. Early toxicology stories steered a deadly overdose, nonetheless mates interviewed for the Rolling Stone piece disputed these claims.
In keeping with Setlist.fm, Foo Fighters performed 44 exhibits in 2021. They performed six 2022 live shows previous to Hawkins’ passing, and had greater than 40 further dates lined up this 12 months. The group’s most up-to-date album, Drugs at Midnight, was launched in 2021, whereas the band’s first unique movie, the horror comedy Studio 666, arrived in February 2022.
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