I know I'm going to sound cynical, but addicts are incredible liars. We've also seen a lot of celebrities that talk about being clean and sober and happy, but they're still deeply addicted. We only really need to look at Scott Hall, who for a long time purported to be clean and sober and loving life, but we've learned, that he never really stopped drinking.
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People who are addicted to drugs are still people, it doesnt make them bad, it doesnt make their death any less of a tragedy, they dont deserve to die, thay weren't asking for it, the fact they are gone is still a loss both to their friends and family and to the world at large.
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I'm not so sure, my guess is Grohl just becomes gunslinger drummer guitarist for a lot of projects
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I'm with you. I think this may just take the joy out of FF for Grohl.
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It was in one of the Nirvana or Foo Fighter books where Grohl was saying how he struggled with his industry killing people with addiction and overdose and if he was complicit by being in it.
I suspect he is done as being in a regular touring band.
I don't believe this. I knew the tickets for September would be cancelled the moment I heard. But Dave has been on record so many times speaking to the importance of Foo Fighters in his life. It's not a hole that will be fulfilled by doing side projects or playing guitar or drums with other bands, not by a long shot.
Foo Fighters mean the entire world to him and is on another planet from any other project he does, he has stated this repeatedly. They will play again and probably within a couple of years. The complication is Taylor's impact on both Dave as a friend for decades and his impact on the Foo Fighters as a drummer and performer. That will lead to some serious downtime and mourning on Dave's part, but ultimately he will want to keep the Foo's going both because it's the most important project/band in his career and to honour Taylor by keeping it going.
Dave will be mourning privately for months and then will speak publicly when he's ready to what Taylor meant to him and the band. Then when he's ready he will want to play again...and it will be the Foo Fighters that he wants to play with.
I know I'm going to sound cynical, but addicts are incredible liars. We've also seen a lot of celebrities that talk about being clean and sober and happy, but they're still deeply addicted. We only really need to look at Scott Hall, who for a long time purported to be clean and sober and loving life, but we've learned, that he never really stopped drinking.
I should listen to the interview before posting but I do know that in the music industry it's very common now for artists to speak to playing shows sober more in terms of immediate sobriety during the show.
Blink 182 and many other major bands have spoken to the difference between the old days and now. In the old days bands would be ripped and stoned and charging $10-$30 a ticket and it was seen as rock and roll to be wasted while playing. Things changed to the point where a major rock band had to put on a major show each night, that required being hydrated, alert and rested to pull off, more like an athlete than an old school rockstar.
You could no longer be a drugged out, drunk artist in front of 15000 people paying $50-$200 a seat and expecting a 2 hour plus arena show. Taylor may have been alluding to not being drunk or high while performing rather than his private, off show battle with opioids and painkillers.
It's really common for concerts to be midi controlled these days. Midi control is when all the lighting and sound equipment is synchronized to a click track that the drummer is playing along to. This way the light show will match the tempo of the song and musicians only have to worry about playing while the midi system manages their sound settings. It saves a lot of hassle and coordination, but turns the concert into an extremely regimented affair.
It'd be hard to name a modern drummer that doesn't play to click track, Lars Ulrich is the only one that comes to mind.
Foo Fighters and the Hawkins family have announced two Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts. The shows commemorating the band’s late drummer are set to take place September 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium and September 27 at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. The announcement promises performances from Hawkins’ peers and idols, with the lineup to be announced at a future date.
Ahead of the concerts, Hawkins’ wife Alison released a statement for the first time since the musician’s death:
The kid looks and plays just like his dad. Here's the full performance, along with a few others from the London show, including a Them Crooked Vultures reunion and Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with Grohl on drums. Pretty amazing concert overall.
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CBS is showing a one-hour edited version, starting at 11:00pm on the west coast stations.
The full concert will apparently be available on Paramount+ at some point as well.
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I was able to watch a lot fo the concert before it got moved to a private video on YouTube. So much awesome music done by so many amazing musicians. His kid playing the drums on My Hero made me bawl like a baby.
Love them kicking it off in Wembley with some Oasis. I'd watch a Liam Gallagher and The Foo Fighters tour.
Foo Fighters choosing to go with two drummers for now, it appears. I'm excited to see what Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden) can do, along with Atom Willard from Against Me and Angels and Airwaves.
I guess they spent a lot of time playing with a bunch of drummers to see best fit. This is a case where no one will live up to what Taylor brought to the band, but it's nice to see them move on and continue to play as a band.
Part of me thought they'd go with Shane Hawkins on drums after he showed to be able to play incredibly. As much as it'd be a feel good story, I bet the band figured it isn't good to get a kid into that rock n roll, touring environment before he's had a chance to grow up.
