Travis Barker honored late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins with a tattoo of a hawk on the highest of his left foot.
“HAWK perpetually ,” he captioned a series of photos on Instagram of his ink session with Mark Mahoney at Shamrock Social Membership.
His fiancée Kourtney Kardashian was, after all, by his facet and even supplied her beau a kiss to ease the ache.
As we beforehand reported, Hawkins was found dead in a resort room in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 25. He was 50.
The workplace of the nation’s legal professional normal announced the following day {that a} preliminary toxicology take a look at confirmed the musician had 10 substances in his system, together with opioids, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants and THC.
Nonetheless, an official reason for demise has but to be decided.
The Blink-182 dummer was amongst 1000’s of devastated followers who paid tribute to the legend on social media.
“I don’t have the phrases. Unhappy to put in writing this or to by no means see you once more,” he captioned a black-and-white photo of Hawkins sitting criss-cross on the ground, flashing a giant gin.
“I’ll always remember Laguna Seashore days once I was a trash man taking part in in a punk rock band and also you had been taking part in with Alanis [Morissette],” Barker continued. “You’d come watch me play in dive bars and be like, ‘child you’re a star.’ And I assumed you had been loopy however you gave me a lot hope and willpower.”
He marveled that, years later, Blink-182 and Foo Fighters ended up touring collectively in Australia.
“I’ve the most effective recollections of smoking cigarettes within the restroom of flights we had been on collectively and watching your set each evening,” Barker wrote of that point.
“To say I’ll miss you my buddy isn’t sufficient. Until the subsequent time we speak drums and smoke within the boys room … Relaxation In Peace .”