141-455: Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022) was an American musician who was the drummer and a vocalist of the rock band Foo Fighters , sharing vocals with Dave Grohl . He joined the band in 1997, and remained the band's drummer until his sudden death in 2022. He recorded eight studio albums with Foo Fighters between 1999 and 2021. Before joining the band, he was a touring drummer for Sass Jordan and Alanis Morissette , as well as
282-561: A Pocketwatch -era song that was best known as a Nirvana B side. In November 2006, the band released their first live CD, Skin and Bones , featuring fifteen performances captured over a three-night stint in Los Angeles. For the follow-up to In Your Honor , the band recruited The Colour and the Shape producer Gil Norton. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released on September 25, 2007. The album's first single, " The Pretender ",
423-615: A Twitter statement on March 25, writing that "His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever." On March 29, the band cancelled all their upcoming shows. On the night of his death, Hawkins was scheduled to perform with the Foo Fighters at the Estéreo Picnic Festival in Bogotá as part of their ongoing South American tour. The festival stage was turned into a candlelight vigil for Hawkins. On June 8, 2022,
564-414: A World War II term for unidentified flying objects . He hoped the name would lead listeners to assume the music was made by several people. He said later: "Had I actually considered this to be a career, I probably would have called it something else, because it's the stupidest fucking band name in the world." The demo tape circulated in the industry, creating interest among record labels. Grohl formed
705-590: A "timely manner". A May 2022 article from Andy Greene and Kory Grow in Rolling Stone made the case that Hawkins was suffering from extreme exhaustion in the period leading up to his death, and allegedly asked that no more dates be added to the scheduled tour. However, two of the interviewees, Chad Smith and Matt Cameron , have since disavowed the article, stating that they were quoted out of context and that their comments were misrepresented. Noting that official autopsy results had not, at that time, been made public,
846-476: A Friend ", a song which Grohl wrote in the 1990s about himself and his former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain during the time they shared an apartment together in 1990, and "Still", talking about a suicide Grohl saw when he was ten in Virginia , by a boy who jumped on the train tracks. Much of the album's theme and content, including the title, came after Grohl spent time on the campaign trail with John Kerry during
987-512: A North American tour to promote Sonic Highways , beginning with a special Fourth of July event in Washington, D.C. , that would commemorate the band's 20th anniversary. The all-day event was to be held at Washington's RFK Stadium featuring performances by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , Heart , LL Cool J , Gary Clark Jr. , and Buddy Guy . Dave Grohl's injury initially led to speculation that
1128-477: A band to support the album. He spoke to Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic , about joining the group, but he decided against it. Grohl said it would have felt "really natural" for them to work together, but would have been "weird" for the others and place more pressure on Grohl. Instead, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith , both of the recently disbanded Seattle group Sunny Day Real Estate . Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear joined as
1269-580: A benefit concert in Hollywood for the AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives , with a speech by the founder, Christine Maggiore , and distribution of free copies of her self-published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? . The Foo Fighters website featured a section devoted to Alive & Well. Sandra Thurman , the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy , said this
1410-481: A certain frequency that isn't traditional for bass, but you have to go with it, which is even more fun." During the last three weeks of work on the rock songs, the band was in the studio "from noon to eight in the morning, making the rock record the most devastating thing we've ever done". After two months on the rock songs, approaching their established deadline, the band held a meeting and decided that, to finish, "Everyone has to be here all day. We need to do one song
1551-496: A coma for two weeks. Hawkins' bandmate and best friend, Dave Grohl , was beside his hospital bed in London for two weeks until he woke up. Grohl said he was ready to quit music while Hawkins was in the hospital. He also revealed in the 2011 documentary Foo Fighters: Back and Forth , that he wrote the song "On the Mend" from the band's 2005 album In Your Honor about Hawkins while he was in
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#17328697767481692-405: A coma. Speaking to Beats 1 host Matt Wilkinson in 2018 about the incident, Hawkins said: "I was partying a lot. I wasn't a junkie , per se, but I was partying. There was a year where the partying just got a little too heavy. Thank God on some level this guy gave me the wrong line with the wrong thing one night and I woke up going, 'What the fuck happened?' That was a real changing point for me." In
1833-416: A day and no one's leaving until that song is done." Grohl would listen to a click track , "We'd find a tempo and I'd just roll an arrangement off the top of my head." As the members recorded their parts, Grohl would write the lyrics. The rushed approach prevented Mendel writing bass lines, so he ended up "concentrating on just finding the notes and getting the rhythm right." "I look at this album as kind of
1974-542: A diverse blend of songs, as he felt that after ten years of existence, the band had to break new ground with their music. The album was recorded at a newly built studio in Northridge, Los Angeles , and features guests such as John Paul Jones ( Led Zeppelin ), Norah Jones , and Josh Homme ( Queens of the Stone Age ). Its lyrics deal with both resonating and introspective themes, with a major influence from Grohl's involvement on
2115-506: A double A-side of "No Way Back" and "Cold Day in the Sun" were also issued as singles. "No Way Back" was included in the video games Madden NFL 06 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock . In addition, the song "Resolve" and "Miracle" in the TV series The West Wing where the band performed the latter two songs in "Election Day, Part 1" and "Election Day, Part 2" respectively. Nearly fifteen years after
2256-528: A driving rainstorm. In September 2011 before a show in Kansas City , the band performed a parody song in front of a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church . It mocked the church's opposition to homosexuality and was performed in the same faux-trucker garb that was seen in the band's Hot Buns promotional video. It was announced on September 28, 2011, that the Foo Fighters would be performing during
2397-505: A hiatus from touring (which would last until January 2011). These sessions likely lasted from late 2008 – early 2009. While the members of the Foo Fighters had initially planned for their new album (composed of songs from this recording session) to have come out in 2009 with almost no touring support, they ultimately decided to shelve most of the songs from these sessions. Three of these songs were later released — "Wheels" and "Word Forward" (on their 2009 compilation album, Greatest Hits ); and
2538-636: A long time, including Grohl's supergroup Them Crooked Vultures (12 years) and the James Gang (16 years). The second tribute concert, at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California , took place on September 27, 2022, and featured Hawkins' bandmates as well as numerous guest artists. Returning from the London show were Barker, Copeland, Hakim, Homme, Johannes, Jones, Kurstin, Lee, Lifeson, May, Novoselic, Ronson, Smith, Spiller, Roger Taylor, Rufus Taylor, Ulrich, Van Halen,
2679-487: A lot. It's like a runner's heart.' And that's fine. The only thing is, he said, 'I think you have sleep apnea.' And my wife's always saying you snore and you fucking make weird noises while you're sleeping and stuff." On March 25, 2022, Hawkins was in Bogotá , Colombia, where he was scheduled to perform with the Foo Fighters later that evening. After Hawkins complained of chest pains, emergency services were called up to his room at
2820-482: A montage of Letterman highlights while the Foo Fighters played " Everlong ", which Letterman said had significant meaning for him after his open-heart surgery in 2000, introducing them as "my favorite band, playing my favorite song." The band postponed their international tour to make the appearance; the tour resumed on May 24, with a performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich, England. On June 12, Grohl fell from
2961-474: A newly recorded version of "Rope" (which ended up making the final cut of Wasting Light ). In August 2010, the band began recording their seventh studio album with producer Butch Vig , who had previously produced the two new tracks for the band's Greatest Hits album. The album was recorded in Dave Grohl's garage using only analog equipment. The album won five Grammys and was nominated for six. The recording
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#17328697767483102-476: A one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl , the lineup now consists of Grohl (lead vocals, guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear (guitars), Rami Jaffee (keyboards), and Josh Freese (drums). Drummers William Goldsmith and Taylor Hawkins , along with guitarist Franz Stahl , are former members of the band. Grohl, who created the Foo Fighters to release solo material after Nirvana broke up in 1994, recorded what would become
3243-509: A performance in Arizona coinciding with one of the presidential debates . Having spent a year and a half touring behind One by One , Grohl did not want to rush into recording another Foo Fighters record. Initially Grohl intended to write acoustic material by himself but eventually the project involved the entire band. To record its fifth album, the band shifted to Los Angeles and built a recording studio, dubbed Studio 606 West. Grohl insisted that
3384-477: A preliminary urine toxicology test indicated that Hawkins had 10 substances in his system at the time of his death, including opioids , benzodiazepines , tricyclic antidepressants , and THC . Colombia's National Institute of Forensic Medicine stated that they would "continue the medical studies to achieve total clarification of the events that led to the death of Taylor Hawkins", and the attorney general 's office would continue to investigate his cause of death in
3525-575: A rock cover band called Chevy Metal. Hawkins appeared on Slash 's solo album Slash , released in 2010, providing backing vocals on the track "Crucify the Dead", featuring Ozzy Osbourne . In 2013, he made his acting debut in the role of Iggy Pop in the rock film CBGB . Hawkins recorded the drums on Vasco Rossi 's last song, "L'uomo più semplice". This song was released on January 21, 2013, in Italy. In March 2014, Hawkins announced his new side project called
3666-426: A special edition DualDisc set containing a "making of" documentary in the first disc, and the second disc in 5.1 surround sound. RCA also issued 5,000 copies of a quadruple vinyl LP record . Distributor Sony BMG issued the album with the copy protection software MediaMax CD-3 , which later led to a scandal as its rootkit -like nature made computers vulnerable to malware . The promotional campaign included
3807-522: A thrash tune." He also stated that he tried to fit the Foo Fighters sound even with stylistic differences: "It's still the same four guys playing it so it just is a Foo Fighters song, whether it sounds like Carcass or fucking Ry Cooder ." The band tried to do the albums without a "middle ground" sound, with "the acoustic record far more delicate and beautiful and atmospheric", and "the rock CD far more brutal and aggressive" than their previous work. The arrangements were aiming for complexity: "This record
3948-403: A wide dynamic and it shows the range that band had. And that's what we wanted to do with this album." The double album has a disc of rock songs and another with acoustic ones, which Grohl said demonstrated his artistic freedom – "It's not one specific genre of music, it's not one specific style. I'm just a musician. I can play all these different instruments, I can write a bossa nova, I can write
4089-445: Is by no means perfect", he praised the rock songs for "indications of just how loud this band can get", and regarding the acoustic tracks, wrote that "despite the down-tempo feel, the songs are infectious". Some reviewers found In Your Honor overlong and inconsistent. Writing for Rolling Stone , Barry Walters praised the acoustic songs, while considering that In Your Honor "could have been easily pruned down to one disc", claiming
4230-439: Is much more elaborate than just an acoustic guitar and a vocal. And the songs were written to hold more orchestration. We've never had accordions and pump organs and cellos and stand up bass ." The acoustic guitar sound has influences of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson , with open notes in conjunction with fretted notes. The lyrics on the rock album tried to focus on "general themes that everyone can get their hands on", while
4371-514: Is that it's got songs from ... Trick of the Tail , the first album Genesis did without Gabriel. Collins is an incredible drummer. Anyone who wants to be good on the drums should check him out – the man is a master. Hawkins's first two major inspirations were Roger Taylor and Stewart Copeland. He reported that listening to these two drummers' different styles showed him a wide spectrum of drumming style. He also mentioned that he would play along with songs on
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4512-430: The 2004 presidential election . "We'd pull in to small towns, and thousands of people would come to be rescued by this man", said Grohl. "It's not a political record, but what I saw inspired me." The price of the album was just one dollar above what is paid for a regular single-disc CD, as Grohl thought the albums "complemented each other in one package, and I don't need any more money". The first 25,000 US copies were in
4653-571: The Grammy Awards . Grohl described his appearance as the "second-greatest thing to happen to me in my life" behind his marriage. "I love Dave," Jones said, "and I enjoyed playing on that Foo Fighters album." Norah Jones was brought for the bossa nova "Virginia Moon" after Grohl heard her record and considered that his song was "her vibe" and Jones' voice "was so smooth and warm that I figured it would work out great with mine." The song features Grohl's guitar technician Joe Beebe on lead guitar, as he
4794-474: The Queen + Paul Rodgers single, " C-lebrity ". Hawkins was commissioned to complete an unfinished recording of a song by Beach Boys ' drummer Dennis Wilson titled "Holy Man" by writing and singing new lyrics. The recording, which also featured contributions from Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, was issued as a single for Record Store Day in 2019. While the Foo Fighters were on break in 2013, Hawkins formed
4935-448: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and joined them to perform the 1976 classic, " Tie Your Mother Down ", with Hawkins playing drums alongside Roger Taylor . The guitarist Brian May added a guitar track to the Foo Fighters' second cover of Pink Floyd 's " Have a Cigar ", which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Mission: Impossible 2 . In 2002, May contributed guitar to "Tired of You" and
5076-456: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, their first year of eligibility. In 1990, Dave Grohl joined the grunge band Nirvana as the drummer. During tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs, but was too intimidated to share them with the band. He was "in awe" of the songs written by Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain . Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers, and released an album of demos, Pocketwatch , under
5217-710: The Sonic Highways World Tour , followed with performances in South Africa in December and South America in January 2015. It continued to Australia and New Zealand in February and March. On May 20, 2015, the Foo Fighters were the final musical act to perform on Late Show with David Letterman , continuing their long association with the host as he wrapped up his 33-year career in late-night television. The show ended with
5358-457: The 2005 Reading and Leeds Festivals . On June 17, 2006, the Foo Fighters performed their largest non-festival headlining concert to date at London's Hyde Park . Motörhead's Lemmy joined the band on stage to sing Shake Your Blood from Dave Grohl's Probot album. As a surprise performance, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen appeared to play part of We Will Rock You as a lead in to Tie Your Mother Down. In further support of In Your Honor ,
5499-511: The 2014 VooDoo Music and Arts Festival in New Orleans on November 2, 2014, in a two and a half hour performance that included an appearance from New Orleans native Trombone Shorty, who played "This Is a Call" with the band. On August 8, the band released a short clip of their latest work, titled 8. On August 11, the band announced that the new album would be titled Sonic Highways and released on November 10, 2014. An international tour, dubbed
5640-547: The Birds of Satan . It features Hawkins's drum technician and bandmate from Chevy Metal, Wiley Hodgden on bass guitar and vocals as well as guitarist Mick Murphy also of Chevy Metal. The band's self-titled debut album was released in April 2014, with a release party at 'Rock n Roll Pizza' featuring the Foo Fighters guesting on some of the cover tracks. In an interview with Radio X , Hawkins revealed that his initial idea with his solo projects
5781-520: The Broken Leg Tour. The band continued to use the name at later North American performances. Prior to their August 21 concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri , the band rickrolled protesting members of the Westboro Baptist Church , as they had also done in 2011. On November 23, 2015, a surprise release following a month-long countdown clock on the Foo Fighters' website revealed
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5922-665: The Cows ", and " Big Me " were released as subsequent singles. The band spent the following months on tour, including their first appearance at the Reading Festival in England in August. After touring through the spring of 1996, the Foo Fighters entered Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, Washington , with producer Gil Norton to record its second album. While Grohl once again wrote all the songs,
6063-628: The DeLuna Festival in Pensacola Beach, Florida . On September 29, the band performed at the Global Citizens' Festival before embarking on a break. Despite initially announcing a break after supporting Wasting Light , Grohl stated in January 2013 that the band had started writing material for an eighth studio album. On February 20, 2013, at the Brit Awards , Grohl said he was resuming work on
6204-512: The Foo Fighters and the family of Hawkins announced two shows in tribute to Hawkins. The first show, played at Wembley Stadium in London, took place on September 3, 2022. The Foo Fighters were joined by Travis Barker , Nandi Bushell , Martin Chambers , Chris Chaney , Dave Chappelle , Stewart Copeland , Josh Freese , Liam Gallagher , Omar Hakim , Justin Hawkins , Joshua Homme , Chrissie Hynde ,
6345-486: The Foo Fighters have developed" while others "let the album down" and the record ultimately "doesn't live up to the hype." Bram Teitelman of Billboard felt that "by isolating the electric and acoustic sides, the concept comes off as repetitious" and ultimately concluding that "by scaling back their ambitions, the Foos could have made one great album instead of two average ones." Pitchfork ' s Amanda Petrusich described
6486-426: The Foo Fighters in 1997, citing exhaustion and burnout, and was replaced by Grohl's former Scream bandmate Franz Stahl . Stahl toured with the Foo Fighters for the next few months and appeared on two tracks recorded for movie soundtracks, a re-recording of " Walking After You ", also released as a single, for The X-Files and " A320 " for Godzilla . A B-side from the "My Hero" single, "Dear Lover", appeared in
6627-515: The Foo Fighters on April 3, 2022. In 2000, Hawkins was contacted by Guns N' Roses to replace Josh Freese on drums. Hawkins seriously considered the offer before Roger Taylor convinced him to remain in Foo Fighters. In 2006, Hawkins released a self-titled LP with his side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders . Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders subsequently released two more studio albums: Red Light Fever in 2010, and Get
6768-518: The Foo Fighters released a rockumentary, directed by Academy Award-winner James Moll . The film, titled Back and Forth , chronicles the band's career. Then current and past members, and producer Butch Vig, tell the story of the band through interviews. After debuting on March 15, 2011, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas , it was released on DVD three months later. On May 21, 2011, the Foo Fighters headlined
6909-637: The Foo Fighters started their world tour in support of the album. The band performed shows throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, including headlining the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore on August 9. At the European MTV Music Awards in 2007, Pat Smear confirmed his return to the band in a touring capacity. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
7050-615: The Foos in fighting shape." The album entered the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart at number two behind Coldplay 's X&Y (the worldwide best selling album of 2005) with the strongest initial sales of their entire career this far–310,500 copies in the United States and 159,179 in the UK. In Your Honor also topped the charts in Australia, Finland, New Zealand and Ireland, and reached
7191-518: The Four Seasons Casa Medina hotel. Health personnel arrived and found Hawkins unresponsive; they performed CPR , but he was declared dead at the scene, aged 50. His cause of death was not immediately revealed. It was reported that Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee was one of the last people to speak to Hawkins, just hours before his death, in a phone conversation to Hawkins' hotel room. The following day, Colombian authorities announced that
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#17328697767487332-472: The Green–Grow article went on to state that "his friends believe[d] he wasn't using hard drugs recreationally at the time of his death" and that the post-mortem forensics performed indicated that the mass of Hawkins' heart was "about double... normal size", raising the possibility that "it could have collapsed" apart from any contribution of drugs in his system." The Foo Fighters announced the death of Hawkins in
7473-523: The James Gang , Alain Johannes , Brian Johnson , John Paul Jones , Greg Kurstin , Geddy Lee , Alex Lifeson , Brian May , Paul McCartney , Chris Rock , Nile Rodgers , Mark Ronson , Sam Ryder , Luke Spiller , Supergrass , Roger Taylor , Rufus Taylor , Lars Ulrich , and Wolfgang Van Halen , plus members of Hawkins's cover band, Chevy Metal. His son Oliver Shane Hawkins paid tribute to his father with
7614-542: The James Gang, and Chevy Metal. Also appearing were Jack Black , Geezer Butler , Danny Carey , Phil Collen , Miley Cyrus , Joe Elliott , Joan Jett , Mark King , Tommy Lee , Alanis Morissette , Pink , Nikki Sixx , Chad Smith , Jon Theodore , Brad Wilk , Nancy Wilson , and Patrick Wilson . Shane Hawkins has been playing with Chevy Metal in his father's place. Foo Fighters The Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Founded as
7755-517: The MTV special 24 Hours of Foo . Lead single " Best of You " was released on May 30, 2005, and became the band's highest-charting single at the main American , British , and Australian charts. Follow-up " DOA " was released on August 22, after an early debut as a ringtone for Cingular cell phones. Like "Best of You" it proceeded to top Billboard ' s Modern Rock Songs chart. " Resolve " and
7896-687: The Money in 2019. He occasionally played with a Police cover band alternately called the Cops and Fallout. At Live Earth in 2007, Hawkins was part of SOS Allstars with Roger Taylor of Queen and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers . Hawkins recorded the drum tracks for the Coheed and Cambria album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow as the band's regular drummer, Chris Pennie , could not record because of contractual reasons. Hawkins also toured with Coheed and Cambria shortly during
8037-557: The Police , whom he idolized and eventually befriended; Budgie of Siouxsie and the Banshees ; Roger Taylor of Queen ; Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction ; Jim Gordon of Derek and the Dominos ; Neil Peart of Rush ; Alex Van Halen of Van Halen ; and John Bonham from Led Zeppelin . Hawkins was once guest editor of Rhythm and interviewed Collins, Copeland, Taylor, and Perkins for
8178-495: The Shape (1997), and most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl. Smear departed soon afterward. Smear and Goldsmith were replaced by Stahl and Hawkins. Stahl was fired before the recording of the group's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999). The band briefly continued as a trio until Shiflett joined after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose , solidifying the core of their lineup. The Foo Fighters released their fourth album, One by One , in 2002. It
8319-554: The Stone Age. Hawkins and Grohl talked about resuming work on One by One and after a very satisfying performance the following day, they agreed to stay together. The group re-recorded nearly all of the album in a ten-day stretch at Grohl's home studio in Alexandria, Virginia , the following month. The original version of One by One , referred to by the band as Million Dollar Demos, has never been released in its entirety although seven tracks were leaked online in 2012 and 2015. The album
8460-678: The Sun " from In Your Honor , which was later released as a single, as well as a cover of Cream 's " I Feel Free ", which appeared as the B-side of " DOA " and on the EP Five Songs and a Cover . Hawkins also sang lead vocals for the band's cover of Joe Walsh 's "Life of Illusion". Later, he sang lead vocals for "Sunday Rain", a track on the Foo Fighters' 2017 album Concrete and Gold . He sang lead vocals on some songs during Foo Fighters live shows, particularly covers, such as Van Halen 's " Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love " and Queen 's " Somebody To Love ",
8601-544: The acoustic album being "quieter, but it also has a similar flow and easy grace that makes it a fitting complement to the harder first record." Reviewer Joe Gross of Spin described the hard rock disc as "the most consistent rockers of Grohl's career" and considered that the album as a whole "chronicle[s] the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows, including his own, with nerve and power" While Mike Schiller of PopMatters considered that " In Your Honor has some great tunes, but it
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#17328697767488742-533: The acoustic had introspective lyrics that are "vulnerable and revealing", with things Grohl "wouldn't say out loud, wouldn't even admit to myself." Grohl declared that "when you're writing songs that have a sort of anthemic quality, you can't really go lighthearted and sing about bullshit. You have to dig into a deeper place to find the words", and that "I don't know what it is about, this album, that makes it sound more heartfelt or deeper or more emotional, but when I listen to it, it really is." These include " Friend of
8883-539: The acoustic shows was guitarist Pat Smear , who had been in the Foo Fighters from 1995 to 1997, and followed the In Your Honor Tour with another five years as a touring musician before rejoining as a full-time member for the recording of Wasting Light . The acoustic shows from August 29, 30 and 31, 2006 at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles were turned into the live album Skin and Bones . In Your Honor
9024-418: The acoustic songs "all very pretty—sometimes scarily so", ultimately concluding that "you'll probably revisit the rockin' half more often". AllMusic 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered that the record "showcases a reinvigorated band that is eager to stretch out and experiment", with the rock record having a "fluid musicality and a new found sense of drama that gives it a nearly cinematic sense of scope", and
9165-467: The acoustic songs, as they "showed ourselves what we're capable of doing" and "[made] things scary again. You do something that you've never done, and it makes you feel like a bigger band." The frontman also stated the mellower acoustic disc was an opportunity to use "the acoustic tracks we wrote in the past eight or nine years, but never put on albums because they never seemed to fit", particularly because Grohl felt that "it's hard to put an acoustic song in
9306-622: The album and that it was slated to be released a month after the premiere of the TV show. In June 2014, the band agreed to play a show in Richmond, Virginia , that was entirely crowd-funded by fans on the website Tilt.com . The show took place on September 17 before 1,500 fans. The band played 23 songs over the course of two and a half hours. The Foo Fighters announced their tour would include performances in Cape Town on December 10 and Johannesburg on December 13. The band played three performances under
9447-519: The album be divided into two discs – one full of rock songs, and the other featuring all acoustic tracks. In Your Honor was released in June 2005. The album's singles included " Best of You ", " DOA ", " Resolve ", and " No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun ". During September and October 2005, the band toured with Weezer on what was billed as the Foozer Tour. The Foo Fighters played a headline performance at
9588-551: The album not reaching their expectations amid much infighting, Grohl spent some time helping Queens of the Stone Age complete their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf . Once that album was finished and touring had started for both the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, the band was on the verge of breaking up entirely. Grohl reunited with Hawkins, Shiflett, and Mendel to play the Coachella Festival , alternating days with Queens of
9729-535: The album overlong and inconsistent. The album was also nominated for five Grammy Awards , and topped the charts in five countries—including Australia—and reached the top five in five more, including number two in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In Your Honor also broke the band's consecutive streak of Grammy Award for Best Rock Album wins that began in 2001 with There Is Nothing Left to Lose . After touring in support of One by One , Dave Grohl
9870-449: The album the following day. On September 6, 2013, Shiflett posted a photo to his Instagram account that indicated 13 songs were being recorded and later described it as "pretty fucking fun". Rami Jaffee has recorded parts for two songs, one of which was "In the Clear". Butch Vig , who worked with the band on Wasting Light , confirmed via Twitter in late August 2013 that he was producing
10011-399: The album's release, "Razor" appeared on an episode of The Flash . The release was promoted with the In Your Honor Tour. The tour began in the summer of 2005, and ran through to June 2006. It featured two shows per city, an electric one in arenas and an acoustic in smaller venues. The late 2005 concerts were part of the Foozer Tour, co-headlined with Weezer . Among the additional band for
10152-565: The album. The band confirmed that it would end its hiatus by playing two shows in Mexico City on December 11 and 13. On October 31, a video appeared on the official Foo Fighters YouTube channel showing a motorcyclist, later revealed to be Erik Estrada , delivering each of the band members an invitation to play in Mexico. On January 16, 2014, a picture was posted to the Foo Fighters' Facebook page with several master tapes labeled LP 8. On May 15, it
10293-773: The alias The Holy Shits in September 2014; the first at the Concorde 2 club in Brighton, England , where Grohl invited lead singer Jay Apperley of the tribute band UK Foo Fighters on stage to sing, followed by the House of Vans and the Islington Assembly Hall. On September 14, 2014, the band performed at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games , their first official show in England since closing Reading Festival in 2012. They closed out
10434-554: The band during a performance of " My Hero " by taking on his father's role as drummer. The concert at Wembley Stadium was streamed live on YouTube and Paramount+, with a rerun being broadcast on CBS. Shane Hawkins was awarded the 'Drum Performance of the Year' at the Drumeo Awards for this performance. The guest list reunited, in whole or in part, several of Hawkins' favorite bands, including Queen and Rush . Some had not played together for
10575-494: The band organized a short acoustic tour for the summer of 2006. Members who had performed with them in late 2005 appeared, such as Pat Smear , Petra Haden on violin and backing vocals, Drew Hester on percussion, and Rami Jaffee of The Wallflowers on keyboard and piano. While much of the setlist focused on In Your Honor' s acoustic half, the band also used the opportunity to play lesser-known songs, such as Ain't It The Life, Floaty, and See You. The band also performed Marigold,
10716-464: The band would drop out of the event but they later confirmed they would perform; however, the injury did prevent them from headlining the 2015 Glastonbury Festival . The band performed for 48,000 people with Grohl in a custom-built moving throne which he claimed to have designed himself while on painkillers. Beginning with the show on July 4, the Foo Fighters re-branded the North American tour as
10857-427: The band's eponymous debut album essentially by himself in six days. After the songs drew label interest, he recruited band members Mendel and Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate , and Smear, who had played with Nirvana on tour. The band made their first public performance in February 1995, five months before the album's release. Goldsmith quit during the recording of their second album, The Colour and
10998-525: The band's first to reach the US Billboard Hot 100 . Other singles included " Stacked Actors ", " Generator ", " Next Year ", and " Breakout ". Before the release of the album, Capitol Records president Gary Gersh was forced out of the label. Given Grohl's history with Gersh, the Foo Fighters' contract had included a "key man clause" that allowed them to leave the label upon Gersh's departure. They left Capitol and signed with RCA , who later acquired
11139-458: The band's new drummer the following year. Their eleventh album, But Here We Are , was released in June 2023. The Foo Fighters have won 15 Grammy Awards , including Best Rock Album five times, making them among the most successful rock acts in Grammy history. In 2021, the band was announced as recipients of the first "Global Icon" award at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards . They were inducted into
11280-465: The band. In need of a replacement for Goldsmith, Grohl contacted Alanis Morissette 's touring drummer Taylor Hawkins for a recommendation. Grohl was surprised when Hawkins volunteered himself. Hawkins made his debut with the group in time for the release of its second album, The Colour and the Shape , in May 1997. The album included the singles " Monkey Wrench ", " Everlong " and " My Hero ". Smear left
11421-399: The band. The band regrouped in Los Angeles and almost completely re-recorded the album with Grohl on drums. The album, The Colour and the Shape , was released on May 20, 1997. Grohl called Hawkins, an acquaintance at the time, seeking his recommendations for a new drummer to join the band. Grohl was under the impression that Hawkins would not want to leave Morissette's touring band, given she
11562-431: The campaign trail with John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election . It was the first album to feature keyboardist Rami Jaffee , although he would not join the band as full-time member until 2017. The promotional tour for the album included both rock shows in stadiums and acoustic gigs in smaller venues. Reviews for In Your Honor were mostly positive, praising the composition and sound, although some critics found
11703-645: The closing ceremony of Blizzard Entertainment 's annual video game convention, BlizzCon. On August 27, 2012, the Foo Fighters ended their European tour with a headline performance at Reading and Leeds Festival . On September 5, the band performed a show at the Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina , as a benefit for Rock the Vote . The show, which occurred at the same time as the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte,
11844-437: The drummer of the progressive experimental band Sylvia . In 2004, Hawkins formed his own side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders , in which he played drums and sang, releasing three studio albums between 2006 and 2019. He formed the supergroup NHC with Jane's Addiction members Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney in 2020, where he also took on lead vocal and drumming duties. One year before his death, Hawkins
11985-427: The drums and guitars, then vocals, and finally bass. Mendel would write a bass line on Pro Tools at home before showing it to Grohl and Raskulinecz. The bass was recorded after the vocals, which Raskulinecz said was done because "By doing bass last, you can really tailor it for tuning, parts and sound. If you do the drums and then the guitars, you can fill the hole that's left with bass. And sometimes that hole wants
12126-409: The drums. Preparing the acoustic album, Grohl decided he would improve it with guest appearances, and made a list of musicians he would like to work with, such as Warren Haynes and Grant Hart . Guests that appeared on the record included Norah Jones , John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age . John Paul Jones agreed to appear as he was in Los Angeles for
12267-417: The end of one chapter and the beginning of something new… With the rock record, we finally got the aggressive, anthemic thing down. With the acoustic album, it offers some kind of look into the future of things we're capable of doing and the direction we could move if we wanted to." —Dave Grohl on the double album's nature Grohl declared that "making this record revitalized this band", particularly
12408-461: The exception of a guitar part on "X-Static", played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs , Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal. He completed an album's worth of material in five days and handed out cassette copies of the sessions to his friends for feedback. Grohl hoped to stay anonymous and release the recordings in a limited run under the name Foo Fighters, taken from foo fighter ,
12549-489: The final stages of construction, "hammering, stuffing insulation — doing whatever to speed the process." Eight of the rock songs were last-minute compositions done after the acoustic record was finished, as "Dave started feeling that it was better than the rock record." The songs were recorded on analog tape—which was reused over and over due to a tape shortage and a desire to save money—before being transferred to Pro Tools for overdubs , editing and mixing. Raskulinecz mixed
12690-479: The free EP Saint Cecilia , including a single of the same name . Alongside its release, Grohl announced that the band would be going on an indefinite hiatus. In response to growing rumors of a breakup, the Foo Fighters released a mockumentary video in March 2016 portraying Grohl leaving the band to pursue electronic music and Nick Lachey (formerly of 98 Degrees ) becoming the group's new singer, ending with: "For
12831-420: The horror film Scream 2 . The tour for The Colour and the Shape album in 1998 included performances at Glastonbury Festival (on the main stage) and the Reading Festival . In 1998, the Foo Fighters traveled to Grohl's home state of Virginia, to write their third album. However, Grohl and Stahl were unable to co-operate as songwriters; Grohl told Kerrang! in 1999, "in those few weeks it just seemed like
12972-560: The injury, the band canceled its remaining European tour dates. In July, one thousand Italian fans held the Rockin' 1000 gathering in Cesena , Italy, performing "Learn to Fly" and asking the Foo Fighters to come play in the town. The performance video went viral and impressed Grohl, resulting in the band appearing in Cesena on November 3. The Foo Fighters planned to follow their international tour with
13113-420: The investigation of the rape and murder of Gits singer Mia Zapata . Grohl refused to do interviews or tour large venues to promote the album. The Foo Fighters undertook their first major tour in the spring of 1995, opening for Mike Watt . The band's first single, " This Is a Call ", was released in June 1995, and their debut album, Foo Fighters , was released the next month. " I'll Stick Around ", " For All
13254-454: The issue. It was thanks to Rush that I got into Genesis. After listening to Neil, I bought the Seconds Out live album, which was released in 1977. It's just amazing. Not only hearing Phil Collins playing the drums, but also singing. He gets a really bad rap from some people for 'daring' to take over after Peter Gabriel quit, but you just hear the way he sounds here. The beauty of this album
13395-520: The latter of which he performed during what became his final concert with the band. He also contributed to the band's songwriting, and was listed as a co-writer on at least one song on every Foo Fighters album from There Is Nothing Left to Lose to Medicine at Midnight . Hawkins' final performance with the Foo Fighters before his death was at the Lollapalooza Argentina festival on March 20, 2022. Hawkins posthumously won three Grammys with
13536-721: The middle day of the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama . On June 4, 2011, they played a surprise set at the 2011 KROQ Weenie Roast . They also headlined two sold-out shows at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on July 2 and 3, joined on stage by artists such as Alice Cooper , Seasick Steve , and John Paul Jones . They headlined the final night at the 20th anniversary of Lollapalooza in Chicago 's Grant Park on August 7, 2011, performing part of their set in
13677-570: The middle of a rock record, because sometimes it mucks up the sequence." The tracks include Grohl's first composition "Friend of a Friend" – done in 1990, and previously recorded under the pseudonym 'Late!' on the cassette Pocketwatch ; "Razor", which Grohl wrote for a benefit concert at the Wiltern Theatre ; and drummer Taylor Hawkins ' composition "Cold Day in the Sun", which after an attempt to do an electric version became an unplugged track, featuring Hawkins on vocals and tambourine and Grohl in
13818-411: The millionth time, we're not breaking up. And nobody's going fucking solo!" In Your Honor In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters , released on June 14, 2005, through Roswell and RCA Records . It is a double album , with the first disc containing heavy rock songs and the second containing mellower acoustic songs. Frontman Dave Grohl decided to do
13959-639: The months of the album. Hawkins can also be heard drumming on Eric Avery 's (formerly of Jane's Addiction ) first solo effort, Help Wanted and on Kerry Ellis 's album, Wicked in Rock . Hawkins and Grohl split drumming duties on Harmony & Dissidence , the third album by Foo Fighters bandmate Chris Shiflett 's own side project, Jackson United . Hawkins played on the track "Cyborg", from Queen guitarist Brian May 's 1998 solo album, Another World ; he also played drums at VH1 's Rock Honors 2006 while Queen performed " We Will Rock You ". He sang backing vocals on
14100-416: The other members of Foo Fighters, Hawkins starred as himself in the comedy horror film Studio 666 , released on February 25, 2022. He posthumously appears on select tracks on Ozzy Osbourne 's 2022 album Patient Number 9 and Iggy Pop 's 2023 album Every Loser . Hawkins said that his drumming was chiefly influenced by classic rock drummers, including Phil Collins of Genesis ; Stewart Copeland of
14241-470: The outtake "Knucklehead". The Foo Fighters and Queen have performed together on several occasions since, including VH1 Rock Honors and the Foo Fighters' headlining concert in Hyde Park . Near the end of 2001, the Foo Fighters reconvened to record their fourth album . After spending four months in a Los Angeles studio, the album "just didn't sound right" and the band had no confidence it would sell well. With
14382-416: The point where I didn't want them to play the rock songs anymore. I was afraid they were going to get stale." The sessions ran from January to March 2005, with only two and a half weeks spent on the acoustic record. Forty tracks were recorded – fifteen of them acoustic – with half of them ending on the final track list. Studio 606 was not finished as the band moved in, and the band members even helped with
14523-737: The pseudonym Late! in 1992. Nirvana disbanded after the death of Cobain in 1994. Grohl received offers to work with various artists. Press rumors indicated he might join Pearl Jam , and he almost accepted a position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Grohl later said: "I was supposed to just join another band and be a drummer the rest of my life. I thought that I would rather do what no one expected me to do." He instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record 15 of his own songs. With
14664-459: The quieter songs, there are enough supple melodies and hypnotic guitar patterns to suggest fine prospects for a follow-through album". Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly described the discs of In Your Honor as "the outdoors and indoors sides", with the rockers "pack[ing] an intoxicating wallop: 90-proof rock for 90-degree weather, they'll sound terrific blasting from convertibles, open windows, boom boxes, and at barbecues and beach parties" and
14805-700: The radio or records, like Queen's News of the World , to enhance his skills when he was young. During his career, Hawkins used a variety of different brands, including Ludwig Drums , Tama Drums, and, most notably, Gretsch Drums , which he endorsed and played from 2005 until his death. He was also known to use Zildjian Cymbals . Hawkins and his wife, Alison, married in 2005. Together they had three children, including Shane Hawkins. They lived in Hidden Hills, California , after moving from Topanga Canyon in 2012. Hawkins overdosed on heroin in August 2001, which left him in
14946-416: The record as "sterile and controlled", the double disc conceit as "heavy handed, the segregation too deliberate" and the rock songs as repetitive. Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave the album two-and-a-half stars out of four and said, "Though its most smartly crafted tunes and liveliest performances don't measure up to the band's finest, Honor is an honorable effort, full of the brawn and vigor that keeps
15087-405: The rest of the band collaborated on the arrangements. With the sessions nearly complete, Grohl took the rough mixes to Los Angeles, intending to finish his vocal and guitar parts. While there, Grohl realized that he was not happy with the drumming and replaced most of Goldsmith's drum tracks with his own. Though Grohl hoped that Goldsmith would still play on the tour, Goldsmith felt betrayed and left
15228-506: The rights to the band's Capitol albums. After recording There Is Nothing Left to Lose was completed, the band auditioned a number of potential guitarists and settled on Chris Shiflett , who performed with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and California punk band No Use for a Name . Shiflett initially joined as a touring guitarist but achieved full-time status prior to the recording of the group's fourth album. In January 2000, Mendel led
15369-555: The rock record being "my Jack and Coke record" with songs that "I realise I cannot live without that", and the acoustic being "my Sapphire -and- Martini -with-Kylie record". Grohl also stated a decisive moment in making a double album was uploading demos to his computer and realizing he had five hours of music, adding that "we've been a band for 10 years now, this is our fifth record, and I thought it would be boring to just keep making album after album and making videos and playing festivals, so I wanted to do something special." The album
15510-458: The rock songs besides "Resolve" "strain so hard that the melody gets lost" and went in a "cartoonish headbanging fashion" that "accentuates the band's self-inflicted one-dimensionality", and that the "sameness and vagueness of [Grohl's] love lyrics blunt their impact". Noel Murray of The A.V. Club criticized the acoustic disc as "gooey, undercooked, and embarrassingly unpalatable" and "reveal[ing] Dave Grohl's songwriting shortcomings", but praised
15651-426: The rock songs which are "as loud and assaultive as just about anything Grohl has ever recorded", and considered that the "first 10-song set sounds especially tight and ferocious; it's not all that diminished by the unfortunate revelations of disc two". BBC Music reviewer Tanya Byrne found the track list lacking, with "several songs on this double disk that stand head and shoulders above the rest and truly represent how
15792-433: The rock songs, while Elliot Scheiner mixed the stereo and 5.1 versions of the acoustic sides. The band entered the studio with most of the songs finished and rehearsed; producer Nick Raskulinecz , who also worked on One by One , stated that while " One By One was very loose, " In Your Honor was more planned out. Dave was more meticulous on that one". The electric album was done in segments by instrument, starting with
15933-428: The same interview, Hawkins also said he was sober. Hawkins suffered from stage fright . Speaking about his health in a June 2021 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Hawkins said: "I'm healthy. I'm good... I get sinus infections really bad. And I just found out from my doctor, got all my blood tests and my heart everything checked and he goes, 'Dude, you're in amazing shape. Your heart's big, because you exercise
16074-660: The second guitarist. Grohl licensed the album to Capitol Records , releasing it on his new label, Roswell Records . The Foo Fighters made their live public debut on February 23, 1995, at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California , followed by performances at Satyricon in Portland on March 3 and the Velvet Elvis in Seattle on March 4. The show on March 3 had been part of a benefit gig for
16215-486: The song "E-Ticket". In 2021, Hawkins and Jane's Addiction members Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney formed a supergroup called NHC. Described by Hawkins as being "somewhere between Rush and the Faces ", the band made its live debut in September 2021 at Eddie Vedder 's Ohana festival, with Taylor's Foo Fighters bandmate Pat Smear on additional guitar. The band recorded an album in 2021, which released in 2022. Along with
16356-419: The songs' uncharacteristic sound was "why [they] should go on the record." Grohl decided against an acoustic record, saying "I have to have loud rock music in my life somewhere", and decided to make a double album , with "one CD that's all the really heavy rock shit" and another "that's really beautiful, acoustic-based, lower dynamic stuff", which Grohl described as "the bottle and the hangover", and also with
16497-463: The stage before a final encore of "Best of You", an ecstatic Grohl shouted "Welcome to the greatest fucking day of my whole entire life!". Throughout the tour for Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace , the Foo Fighters had been writing and practicing new songs at sound checks. After the Foo Fighters had completed this tour in September 2008, they recorded 13 new songs in Studio 606, shortly after announcing
16638-455: The stage in Gothenburg, Sweden , during the group's second song, breaking his leg. The band continued playing while Grohl received medical attention, who then returned to the stage to finish the last two hours of the band's set from a chair while a medic tended to his leg. After the concert, Grohl was flown to London for surgery, requiring six metal pins to stabilize the fracture. As a result of
16779-581: The three of us were moving in one direction and Franz wasn't." Grohl was distraught over the decision to fire Stahl as the two had been friends since childhood. Shortly after that, Mendel called Grohl to say he was quitting to reunite with Sunny Day Real Estate, only to reverse his decision the next day. The remaining trio of Grohl, Mendel, and Hawkins spent several months recording the band's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose , in Grohl's home studio. The album spawned several singles, including " Learn to Fly ",
16920-561: The top five in Canada, Austria and Denmark. As of December 2011, In Your Honor has sold 1,442,000 units in North America, being their third most successful album behind Foo Fighters and The Colour and the Shape . It was also certified Platinum by the RIAA . The album reached multi-platinum status in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The album was up for five Grammy Awards at
17061-433: The videos for " You Oughta Know ", " All I Really Want ", and " You Learn ". He also appeared on Morissette's VHS/DVD Jagged Little Pill, Live (1997). After touring through the spring of 1996, Foo Fighters entered a Seattle studio with producer Gil Norton to record their second album. Conflict during recording reportedly erupted between Dave Grohl and drummer William Goldsmith , eventually causing Goldsmith to leave
17202-493: Was "extraordinarily irresponsible behavior... There is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community." All links and references to Alive & Well were removed from the Foo Fighters website by March 2003. Around 2001, the Foo Fighters established a relationship with the English rock band Queen , as they (particularly Grohl and Hawkins ) were fans. That March, Grohl and Hawkins inducted them into
17343-400: Was a bigger act than Foo Fighters at the time. To Grohl's surprise, however, Hawkins volunteered to join the band himself, explaining that he wanted to be a drummer in a rock band rather than for a solo act. The band announced Hawkins would be its new drummer on March 18, 1997. Hawkins first appeared with the Foo Fighters in the music video for the 1997 single " Monkey Wrench ", although the song
17484-425: Was analog to tape and used no computers, not even to mix or master. Vig said in an interview with MTV that the album was entirely analog until post-mastering. Pat Smear was present in many photos posted by Grohl on Twitter, and a press release in December confirmed Smear played on every track on the album and was considered an official member of the band once again. The first single from Wasting Light , " Rope ",
17625-542: Was announced only two weeks prior. Tickets to the 2000-person capacity venue sold out in under 60 seconds, setting a record for the site. The band set another personal record during the show itself, being the longest that the band had played to date at just under 3.5 hours with a setlist of 36 songs. On September 21, the band headlined the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta, Georgia . The following evening, they headlined
17766-494: Was announced that the album would be released in November and that the Foo Fighters would commemorate the album and their 20th anniversary with an HBO TV series directed by Grohl titled Sonic Highways . Eight songs were written and recorded in eight studios in eight different American cities with video capturing the history and feel of each town. On July 30, Butch Vig revealed that the Foo Fighters had finished recording and mixing
17907-425: Was followed with the two-disc In Your Honor (2005), which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material. Foo Fighters released their sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace , in 2007. For the Foo Fighters' seventh studio album, Wasting Light (2011), produced by Butch Vig , Smear returned as a full member, after having appeared frequently with the band since 2005. Sonic Highways (2014)
18048-417: Was generally met with positive reviews. At Metacritic , a website that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 26 reviews. Writing for The New York Times , Jon Pareles considered the album "an unexpected magnum opus ", and while Pareles felt that "the rock CD overpowers the acoustic one", he considered that "among
18189-573: Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a member of Foo Fighters. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the British drumming on magazine Rhythm . After his death in March 2022, the Foo Fighters and his family announced two tribute shows, which took place in September 2022. Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas , on February 17, 1972. His family moved to Laguna Beach, California , in 1976, where Hawkins grew up. Hawkins
18330-478: Was issued to radio in early August. In mid-to-late 2007 "The Pretender" topped Billboard 's Modern Rock chart for a record 19 weeks. The second single, " Long Road to Ruin ", was released in December 2007, supported by a music video directed by longtime collaborator Jesse Peretz (formerly of the Lemonheads ). Other singles included " Let It Die " and " Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) ". In October 2007,
18471-557: Was nominated for five Grammy Awards in 2008. The Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance (for "The Pretender"). The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Pretender" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song. On June 7, 2008, the band played Wembley Stadium , London, and was joined by Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin to play " Rock and Roll " (with Grohl on drums and Hawkins on vocals) and " Ramble On " (sung by Grohl, drums by Hawkins). As Page and Jones left
18612-477: Was recorded before he joined the band. In addition to his drumming with the Foo Fighters, Hawkins provided vocals, guitar, and piano to various recordings. He performed the lead vocal on a cover of Pink Floyd 's " Have a Cigar ". Two versions of the song were released, one as the B-side to " Learn to Fly " and another on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack album. He later sang lead vocals on " Cold Day in
18753-586: Was recorded in a new recording studio built in a warehouse in Northridge , California, named Studio 606 West in contrast to the original Studio 606 in Grohl's basement in Alexandria, Virginia . Development for In Your Honor took nine months with three and a half months installing equipment in the studio, and songs being written throughout 2004. While waiting for 606 to get finished, the band rehearsed on North Hollywood's Mates Rehearsal Studios, where "we ended up with three or four different versions of about 30 songs", according to Raskulinecz who added that "it got to
18894-409: Was released as the soundtrack to the television miniseries directed by Grohl. Concrete and Gold (2017) was the second Foo Fighters album to reach number one in the United States and the first to feature Jaffee, their longtime session and touring keyboardist, as a full member. Their tenth album, Medicine at Midnight (2021), was the last before Hawkins' death in March 2022. Freese was announced as
19035-418: Was released in October 2002 under the title One by One . Singles from the album included " All My Life ", " Times Like These ", " Low ", and " Have It All ". The tour for the album included a headline performance at the 2002 Reading and Leeds Festivals . For most of its history, the band chose to stay away from the political realm. However, in 2004, upon learning that George W. Bush's presidential campaign
19176-552: Was released to radio in February 2011. On April 16, 2011, the Foo Fighters released an album of covers, Medium Rare , as a limited-edition vinyl for Record Store Day . The promotion for the album was highly praised for its originality. Wasting Light debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band's first album to do so. Other singles for the album included " Walk ", " Arlandria ", " These Days ", and " Bridge Burning ". Alongside Wasting Light ' s release,
19317-554: Was the only one in the crew with jazz experience. The Wallflowers ' keyboard player Rami Jaffee and That Dog .'s violinist Petra Haden also contributed to the album, and were later drafted for the Foo Fighters' touring band. After the album was finished, Grohl stated that he hoped that the Foo Fighters were most remembered for this record. He described it as "just the most fucking kick-ass thing we've ever done" and said, "If someone asked me which Led Zeppelin album to buy, I would tell them Physical Graffiti , because it has such
19458-532: Was the youngest of three, with an older brother and sister, Jason and Heather. He graduated from Laguna Beach High School in 1990, where he had been friends with current Yes lead vocalist Jon Davison . Hawkins played in the Orange County –based band Sylvia before he became the drummer for Sass Jordan . From June 1995 until March 1997, Hawkins was Alanis Morissette 's drummer on the tour supporting Jagged Little Pill and her Can't Not tour . He appeared in
19599-601: Was to duet with female singers. Hawkins invited other stars to sing in the Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders album Get the Money , such as LeAnn Rimes , who sang on one of his songs titled "C U In Hell". Loudwire named the album one of the 50 best rock efforts of 2019. Other musicians who appeared on his projects included Roger Taylor, Brian May, Dave Grohl, Nancy Wilson , Joe Walsh , Chrissie Hynde , and many more. In October 2021, Elton John released The Lockdown Sessions , which featured Hawkins playing drums on
19740-522: Was uncertain on what to do next with the Foo Fighters . He felt that rushing to do another record would not be creatively rewarding. Grohl considered a possible film score , and began writing acoustic songs, eventually amassing a full album's worth of songs. Grohl, not wanting to make a solo album and accepting the drift from his usual style, brought the songs to the Foo Fighters – "who's to say what we should sound like?". Bassist Nate Mendel replied that
19881-416: Was using "Times Like These" at rallies, Grohl decided to lend his public support to John Kerry 's campaign, saying, "There's no way of stopping the president playing your songs, so I went out and played it for John Kerry's people instead, where I thought the message would kinda make more sense." Grohl attended several Kerry rallies and occasionally performed solo acoustic sets. The entire band joined Grohl for
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