Late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins recalled practically quitting the band after a battle with Dave Grohl in an interview that befell final yr.
Hawkins, 50, was pronounced useless at his resort in Colombia on March 25, with early studies suggesting medicine could have contributed to his demise. Additional investigations stay energetic.
In his final interview with Rolling Stone, solely components of which had been printed in 2021, Hawkins mentioned he was struggling to ship a passable efficiency because the band labored on the 2002 album One by One – the primary file on which Grohl left all of the drumming to Hawkins.
“It was a pivotal second within the band’s profession, and it was undoubtedly a make-or-break second,” he mentioned. “We hadn’t completed One by One, as a result of it wasn’t going so good. … And I used to be nonetheless popping out of my fog from pondering that this must be an entire democracy. We have been doing Coachella and we had an enormous argument as a result of I used to be being a fucking smart-ass and know-it-all, pondering I do know what was proper. And he simply fucking mentioned, ‘You understand what? I’m going to let you know proper now. That is how it’s. It’s my fucking band. In the event you don’t prefer it, fucking beat it.’ And I went, ‘All proper, I give up.’”
He remembered Grohl reacted with a glance that mentioned “yeah, certain you do,” after which gave Hawkins a listing of songs that needed to be accomplished within the coming weeks. In the meantime, Grohl was drumming with Queens of the Stone Age, who have been taking part in the Coachella pageant the day earlier than Foo Fighters. “And I went and watched him play with Queens, and it meant loads to him,” Hawkins mentioned. “I didn’t realize it on the time, actually, but it surely did. He’s mentioned earlier than. He by no means mentioned that to me, as a result of we don’t have these form of conversations. … After which we performed that subsequent night time … and we fucking killed it.
“After the present, I bear in mind going for a stroll with him and him going, ‘We’re going to return to Virginia. We’ll end this file after which we’re going to go on tour and we’re going to be a band.’ … After we did that album and did our first headlining slot on the Studying Competition, that’s when the enjoyable started.”
He additionally mentioned the tough expertise of recording half of the drum tracks on the earlier album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, after the departure of unique drummer William Goldsmith. “I used to be so scared … I had red-light fever so dangerous,” Hawkins remembered. “And [Grohl] mentioned – it form of chokes me up – he simply held my hand by means of it, and he’s like, ‘You’re going to play some drums on this.’ And I did half the drums on it, as a result of he fucking held my hand by means of it, like that older brother, finest buddy does. So there you go. That’s why we’re right here right now, as a result of he knew he needed me there with him as a buddy, as a member of the family, as his youthful brother that he can fucking rubber-finger any time he desires, that in the end completely seems as much as him and needs to make him joyful. And in addition, he knew that there was simply one thing we create on stage. And I do know that.”
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