What we know about the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins

Hawkins was enjoying drums for Alanis Morissette earlier than becoming a member of Foo Fighters in 1997 — three years after the group’s founding by frontman Dave Grohl — in time to hitch the band’s tour after the discharge of “The Color and the Form,” per the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.

“When you have got a drummer like Taylor Hawkins in your band, I do not essentially miss being the drummer — as a result of I’ve the best drummer on this planet,” Grohl mentioned, calling Hawkins “a way more technically minded drummer than I’m.”

Foo Fighters wasn’t Hawkins’ solely undertaking. He had launched solo materials below his personal title and with Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders, through which Hawkins sang lead and performed drums. The band launched three albums, most lately 2019’s “Get the Cash.”

Final 12 months, Hawkins teamed up with Dave Navarro and Chris Haney of Jane’s Habit to kind supergroup NHC (Navarro, Hawkins, Chaney). They launched their debut EP “Intakes & Outtakes” in February.

He died whereas on tour in South America

There’s nonetheless so much we do not learn about how Hawkins died, however information of his passing broke Friday simply as Foo Fighters was set to carry out in Bogotá, Colombia, on the Pageant Estéreo Picnic.

“The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and premature lack of our beloved Taylor Hawkins. His musical spirit and infectious laughter will reside on with all of us perpetually,” the band mentioned on Twitter. “Our hearts exit to his spouse, youngsters and household, and we ask that their privateness be handled with the utmost respect on this unimaginably troublesome time.”

Emergency responders acquired a report Friday night a couple of affected person with chest ache at a resort north of town, in accordance with an announcement from Bogotá’s secretary of well being. An ambulance was despatched to the scene. A personal well being supplier had already been offering remedy, however efforts to resuscitate to Hawkins have been unsuccessful, the assertion mentioned.

Romeo Reyes, a concertgoer who traveled to Bogotá from El Salvador, informed CNN the efficiency was canceled as followers gathered round 11 p.m. “About 10 minutes later, the information broke that Taylor had died,” Reyes mentioned.

“We have been all unhappy,” Reyes mentioned.

The band’s efficiency in Colombia was alleged to be adopted by one other on Sunday in São Paulo, Brazil.

What a preliminary report by Colombia’s AG says

“The Nationwide Institute of Forensic Medication continues the medical research to realize whole clarification of the occasions that led to the dying of Taylor Hawkins,” the report mentioned, and the Lawyer Common’s Workplace will proceed to research his explanation for dying in a “well timed method.”

How he is being remembered by legendary colleagues

Funeral plans for Hawkins haven’t been launched, however followers and colleagues the world over have been paying tribute to Hawkins within the days since his dying — together with rock and roll legends like Roger Taylor, the drummer of Queen who Hawkins mentioned had impressed him to get behind the drum set.

“He was a sort sensible man and an inspirational mentor to my son Rufus and the most effective pal one might ever have,” the Queen drummer wrote Saturday on Instagram, saying Hawkins’ dying was like “dropping a youthful favorite brother.”

… and his followers

“Who would have thought that we have been witnessing the final efficiency of Taylor Hawkins in his life … A shock,” Tolone wrote. “Goodbye, beast of music.”

One other fan is 9-year-old Emma Sofia, who met Hawkins simply days earlier than his dying after she arrange her drums outdoors the band’s resort in Paraguay.

“We’ll bear in mind him for his charisma and the attractive gesture he had with Emma,” the household wrote on her Instagram. “Taylor gave us one thing to imagine in. He was, is and at all times will likely be an inspiration.”