Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead at 50

[Nickdfresh]

I have to agree with the assessment of Journey & Poison being "sad & horny". But U2 being sad & angry?? Yeah, they had a few angry songs in the 80s, but the only really sad song was "Tomorrow", which was literally Bono singing about his mother's funeral, which would understandably be sad. Black Flag as angry & happy?? Sure, I guess... definitely angry. They had the sense of humor on some songs like "TV Party"

I think The Unforgettable Fire is pretty sad. It's a great little love sonnet ditty about trying to convince a girl to stay and sleep with you interspersed with imagery of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings. Hey, worked for me in college!...

[Nickdfresh]

Dave Grohl's best performance on The Best Song in the World...

[FORD]

I think The Unforgettable Fire is pretty sad. It's a great little love sonnet ditty about trying to convince a girl to stay and sleep with you interspersed with imagery of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings. Hey, worked for me in college!...

Is that what that song is about? I thought it was about being drunk at a carnival, with a little bit of Reagan era paranoia about nuclear war thrown in. (the mountains crumbling & disappearing into the sea and all that)

I know they got the album title from something Hiroshima related, but I never got that from the song itself.

[Nickdfresh]

Is that what that song is about? I thought it was about being drunk at a carnival, with a little bit of Reagan era paranoia about nuclear war thrown in. (the mountains crumbling & disappearing into the sea and all that)

I know they got the album title from something Hiroshima related, but I never got that from the song itself.

I think that is one interpretation as it sort of follows the sonnet approach of getting a girl to fuck you by reminding her life is short and her beauty is fleeting. U2 had attended a pictorial exhibit of the atomic bombings somewhere while working on the album and the imagery came in...

[Mushroom]

This thread is worth a bump! Taylor Hawkins' son is a pretty damn good drummer.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/taylor-...h-chevy-metal/

Shane Hawkins, the son of Foo Fighter’s late drummer Taylor Hawkins, took to the stage with his father’s covers band Chevy Metal to perform some of rock and metal’s biggest hits during two of their California shows.

Shane Hawkins sat behind the drums at the band’s Newport Beach show on July 27th and Agoura Hills on 29th, contributing to covers of songs by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Mötley Crüe, The Police, Thin Lizzy, and more over the two nights.

Sebastian Bach also joined Chevy Metal for a number of songs at the Agoura Hills concert, while other guests included Poison drummer Rikki Rockett, The Cars guitarist Elliot Easton, and John Mellencamp and John Fogerty drummer Kenny Aronoff.

Taylor Hawkins formed Chevy Metal in 2013, routinely gigging with them until his passing in 2022. His son has also previously performed with Foo Fighters, including the band’s tribute concert to Taylor Hawkins in September 2022, as well as a guest appearance recently at the band’s Boston Calling gig.

This follows Foo Fighters’ official kick-off of a run of headlining and festival shows and a recent tribute performance to the late Sinéad O’Connor with Alanis Morissette.

They provided a cover of ‘Mandinka’ from O’Connor’s 1987 debut album, The Lion and the Cobra. “We’re singing this song for a reason tonight,” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said.

“Yes, for a beautiful woman with high intelligence and deep empathy, way ahead of her time, who is no longer with us,” Morissette continued. “This is for her”.

The band has US dates scheduled throughout the rest of 2023 and into 2024.

[Mushroom]

For the haters and the lovers, and Kristy, here are 21 reasons why Dave Grohl is the Nicest Guy In Rock

https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-r...ohl-nice-guy/#

1 - Dave sang ‘My Hero’ to Swedish medic who treated his broken leg

2 - Dave surprised 9-year-old drumming prodigy

3 - ...And 10-year-old Nandi Bushell

4 - Dave cooked a barbecue for firefighters battling Californian wildfires

5 - He also cooked a barbecue at a food bank at Christmas 2018

6 - Dave invited a blind boy up on stage

7 - Foo Fighters cover Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with a 10-year-old

8 - Dave gave his shoe to a girl on crutches

9 - He made a documentary series with his mum

10 - Dave stops fights at gigs

11 - ...And settles feuds

12 - Foo Fighters performed gigs in fans’ garages in 2011

13 - He shone the spotlight on former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

14 - Dave listens to the appeals of his fans

15 - Dave does an awful lot for charity

16 - He fills in for sick musicians

17 - Dave left a 100% bar tip to take bill to $666

18 - Dave invited a crying fan onto the stage

19 - Dave read a CBeebies Bedtime Story

20 - He paid tribute to Taylor Hawkins at Glastonbury 2022

21 - Dave worked a 16-hour shift cooking food for 500 homeless people

[Kristy]

[QUOTE=Mushroom;1963744]For the haters and the lovers, and Kristy, here are 21 reasons why Dave Grohl is the Biggest Asshole In Rock

https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-r...ohl-nice-guy/#

1 - Dave sang ‘My Hero’ to Swedish medic who treated his broken leg.

Why not just give him a blowjob? Oh right, Dave is going for his Eagle Scout badge.

2 - Dave surprised 9-year-old drumming prodigy

3 - ...And 10-year-old Nandi Bushell

And this makes him "great guy" how? Makes him a fucking creep in my book. A 50+ year old man hitting on 10 year-olds.

4 - Dave cooked a barbecue for firefighters battling Californian wildfires

I'm willing to be not one firefighter that yellow-toothed assface cooked for was a current inmate in the California State Penal System

5 - He also cooked a barbecue at a food bank at Christmas 2018

Wow. Did he buttfuck the Amazon delivery driver, too?

6 - Dave invited a blind boy up on stage

To Dave, Stevie Wonder is a "blind boy."

7 - Foo Fighters cover Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with a 10-year-old

Again, a 50+ year old man hanging around with children. And this normal to you?

8 - Dave gave his shoe to a girl on crutches

And that would help her...how?

9 - He made a documentary series with his mum

Ah yes, the "Dave Shithead Grohl Entitled White Male and Self-Professed Media Whore" documentary

10 - Dave stops fights at gigs

11 - ...And settles feuds

Not at all surprising when you see the rift-raft that attend a fucking Foo Foo Fighter gig

12 - Foo Fighters performed gigs in fans’ garages in 2011

So I take no local promoter would want anything to do with Dave.

13 - He shone the spotlight on former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Dave giving street cred to a much better musician. Good for him.

14 - Dave listens to the appeals of his fans

So when "the fans" tell him he sucks Dave simply gets on his knees for them.

15 - Dave does an awful lot for charity

Media whoring is not charity

16 - He fills in for sick musicians

Such as...?

17 - Dave left a 100% bar tip to take bill to $666

Dave is so...so...so...edgy. Isn't he?

18 - Dave invited a crying fan onto the stage

What's the betting this "crying fan" was not over the age of ten years?

19 - Dave read a CBeebies Bedtime Story

How traumatizing

20 - He paid tribute to Taylor Hawkins at Glastonbury 2022

Yeah, I talked in depth about this and that motherfucker made his dead drug-addict dumbfuck drummer's suicide (and it was a suicide) all abut himself which only proves how much of a fucking monkey dick Grohl really is.

21 - Dave worked a 16-hour shift cooking food for 500 homeless people

You mean, Dave whored himself out for 500 homeless people as long there was a camera on him during those alleged 16 hours.

[Terry]

Fuck safe Dad Rock made by nice guys.

[Nitro Express]

Fuck safe Dad Rock made by nice guys.

Fucking wimps. We need a band that leaves a body count, knocked up women and destroyed hotels in their wake. Let’s see some big fucking flat screen TVs fly out the high rise windows and make damn sure it hits someone on the sidewalk.

[Mushroom]

Oh God you guys

[Seshmeister]

Fucking wimps. We need a band that leaves a body count,

To be fair, statistically speaking, working with Grohl does have a higher death rate than most jobs...

[Kristy]

To be fair, statistically speaking, working with Grohl does have a higher death rate than most jobs...

Right next to this guy:


Think Dave is after his job.

[twonabomber]

fuckin' Dave Grohl again. Bissonette on drums

[Kristy]

fuckin' Dave Grohl again. Bissonette on drums

I've been to the dentist and BDSM sessions that were less painful than that.

[Rikk]

I, personally, could care less that Dave Grohl is supposedly such a nice guy. He's so over-saturated in the rock 'n' roll market that he clearly sees himself as some sort of savior to the genre. Yet, every time I hear one of his new songs, I always think: "Dude, your songs never break any new ground. They're...BORING."

[Rikk]

I grew up with Nirvana. They were a great band. Foo Fighters don't hold a candle.

[Terry]

And Grohl's drumming was the least interesting thing IN Nirvana.

[Rikk]

And Grohl's drumming was the least interesting thing IN Nirvana.

I agree...to a point. The melodies, even Novoselic's basslines were amazing. The screaming. The feedback-y solos. Great stuff.

BUT...Grohl was far more interesting a drummer than Taylor Hawkins (when Grohl was in Nirvana). Listen to the beat of SCENTLESS APPRENTICE off IN UTERO. That's a killer beat. That song pumps me up the same way ROMEO DELIGHT does.

But he's wasted any of his rhythmic talent on a second-rate guitar band. I saw THEM CROOKED VULTURES, third row. That was a great show...though Homme and John Paul Jones were the true champions there.

Grohl's stuff in QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE was good too.

But if Grohl is left to write the songs, he just doesn't seem to have a lot of vision.

He releases too much music. I write songs. I write tons of them. But I only really work on the ones that I feel are cutting new ground. This guy thinks everything he writes is gold.

And it isn't.

But yes, he was the least interesting thing in Nirvana. That's why BLEACH is far more interesting than NEVERMIND, in my humble opinion.

[twonabomber]

Fuckin' Dave Grohl



These machines start at $7k and there is a limited edition for $13k

https://sternpinball.com/game/foo-fighters/

[Rikk]

Fuckin' Dave Grohl.

These machines start at $7k and there is a limited edition for $13k

https://sternpinball.com/game/foo-fighters/

Yeah, that could be a great machine if it weren't Foo Fighters. And fan-friendly? Fuck that. That's insane (the price).

I remember when I was building my mancave...huge mancave too...our basement is (not kidding) about 2,000 square feet...and my wife let me basically let me take the lead on that. And I wanted to at least look into getting an original KISS Pinball Machine. Then I saw that they go for at least $5,000. And that's for a classic...something vintage. I wanted one, but FUCK THAT.

I also considered the HALLOWEEN Pinball Machine (Michael Myers) that they released a few years ago. This thing was seriously awesome...with full miniatures of the film sets inside it and video footage and all this crap. But again, it went for so many thousands of dollars and I just couldn't justify spending that for a pinball machine.

Now here's Grohl with a much more basic pinball machine...and Mr. Fan-Friendly is charging $7,000-13,000? I mean, that's a minimal pinball machine.

Fuck Dave Grohl.

Here's the Halloween one:
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[Seshmeister]

BYoung must be doing pretty well if he can blow that on a pinball machine.

[Kristy]

Fuckin' Dave Grohl

These machines start at $7k and there is a limited edition for $13k

13 grand and no reference to Kurt blowing his head off or that shitty drummer overdosing or do you have to earn a specific score for that to happen?