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Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022) was an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band
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, with whom he recorded eight studio albums between 1999 and 2021. Before joining the band in 1997, he was a touring drummer for Sass Jordan and for
Alanis Morissette Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two ...
, as well as the drummer of the
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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
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members Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney in 2020, where he also took on lead vocal and drumming duties. Hawkins was inducted into the
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in 2021 as a member of Foo Fighters. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the British drumming magazine ''
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''. He died at the age of 50 on March 25, 2022, in
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, Colombia.


Early life

Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born in
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, on February 17, 1972. His family moved to
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, in 1976, where Hawkins grew up. Hawkins was the youngest of three, with an older brother and sister, Jason and Heather. He graduated from
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in 1990, where he had been friends with current
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lead vocalist Jon Davison.


Career


Early career

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 Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two ...
's drummer on the tour supporting '' Jagged Little Pill'' and her
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. He appeared in the videos for "
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", " All I Really Want", and " You Learn". He also appeared on Morissette's VHS/DVD ''Jagged Little Pill, Live'' (1997).


Foo Fighters

After touring through the spring of 1996,
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entered a
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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 the band.Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2005)
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The band regrouped in Los Angeles and almost completely re-recorded the album with Grohl on drums. The album, ''
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'', 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 leave Morissette's touring band, given she 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 "
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", although the song was recorded before he joined the band. In addition to his drumming with the Foo Fighters, Hawkins also provided vocals, guitar, and piano to various recordings. He performed the lead vocal on a cover of
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'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 the Sun" from '' In Your Honor,'' which was later released as a single, as well as a cover of
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's "
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", which appeared as the B-side of "
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" and on the EP '' Five Songs and a Cover''. Hawkins also sang lead vocals for the band's cover of
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's "Life of Illusion". Later, he sang lead vocals for "Sunday Rain", a track on the Foo Fighters' 2017 album ''
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''. He sang lead vocals on some songs during Foo Fighters live shows, such as a cover of
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's " Somebody To Love" on his last concert with the band. He also contributed to the band's songwriting, and was listed as a co-writer on every album since ''
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''. Hawkins' final performance with the Foo Fighters before his death was at the Lollapalooza Argentina festival on March 20, 2022. Hawkins posthumously won three
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with the Foo Fighters on April 3, 2022.


Other projects

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 the Money'' in 2019. He occasionally played with a
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cover band alternately called "The Cops" and "Fallout". At Live Earth in 2007, Hawkins was part of SOS Allstars with Roger Taylor of
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and
Chad Smith Chad Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician who has been the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the ...
of
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. Hawkins recorded the drum tracks for the
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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 the months of the album. Hawkins can also be heard drumming on Eric Avery's (formerly of
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) first solo effort, ''
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'' and on Kerry Ellis's album, ''Wicked in Rock''. Hawkins and Grohl split drumming duties on ''Harmony & Dissidence'', the third album by
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Foo Fighters was initially formed as a one-man project by former Nirvana (band), Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Following the success of the Foo Fighters (album), epony ...
bandmate Chris Shiflett's own side project, Jackson United. Hawkins played on the track "Cyborg", from Queen guitarist
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's 1998 solo album, '' Another World''; he also played drums at
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's Rock Honors 2006 while Queen performed " We Will Rock You". He sang backing vocals on the Queen + Paul Rodgers single, "
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". Hawkins was commissioned to complete an unfinished recording of a song by
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' 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
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in 2019. While the Foo Fighters were on break in 2013, Hawkins formed a rock cover band called Chevy Metal. Hawkins appeared on
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's solo album ''
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'', released in 2010, providing backing vocals on the track "Crucify the Dead", featuring
Ozzy Osbourne John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adop ...
. In 2013, he made his acting debut in the role of
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in the rock film '' CBGB''. Hawkins recorded the drums on
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'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
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. 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 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
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, who sang on one of his songs titled "C U In Hell". ''
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'' 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,
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,
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, and many more. In October 2021
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released ''
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'', which featured Hawkins playing drums on the song "E-Ticket". In 2021, Hawkins and
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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
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's Ohana festival, with Taylor's Foo Fighters bandmate Pat Smear on additional guitar. The band recorded an album in 2021, which is due for release in 2022. Along with 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
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's 2022 album '' Patient Number 9''.


Influences

Hawkins said that his drumming was chiefly influenced by classic rock drummers, including
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of
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,
Stewart Copeland Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and composer. He is best known for his work as the drummer of the English rock band the Police from 1977 to 1986, and again from 2007 to 2008. Before playing with th ...
of
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whom he idolized and eventually befriended, Budgie of
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, Roger Taylor of
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, Stephen Perkins of
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,
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of
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, Jim Gordon of
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,
Neil Peart Neil Ellwood Peart OC (; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian-American musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an ...
of Rush, and
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of
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. Hawkins was once guest editor of ''
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'' and interviewed Collins, Copeland, Taylor, and Perkins for 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
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quit, but you just hear the way he sounds here. The beauty of this album is that it's got songs from ...''
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'', 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 the radio or records, like Queen's ''
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'', to enhance his skills when he was young.


Personal life

Hawkins and his wife, Alison, married in 2005. Together they have three children. They lived in
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, after moving from Topanga Canyon in 2012. Hawkins overdosed on heroin in August 2001, which left him in 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's album '' In Your Honor'', about Hawkins while he was in a coma. Speaking to
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host Matt Wilkinson in 2018 about the incident, Hawkins said: "I was partying a lot. I wasn't a
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, 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 the same interview, Hawkins also said he was sober. Hawkins suffered from
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. Speaking about his health in a June 2021 interview with ''
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'' magazine, Hawkins said; "I'm healthy. I'm good... I get
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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 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."


Death

On March 25, 2022, emergency services were called to the Four Seasons Casa Medina hotel in
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, Colombia, where Hawkins was suffering from chest pain in his hotel room. Health personnel arrived and found Hawkins unresponsive; they performed CPR, but he was declared dead at the scene, at the age of 50. No cause of death was given. The following day, Colombian authorities announced that a preliminary urine toxicology test indicated that Hawkins had ten substances in his system at the time of his death, including
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,
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s,
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s, and THC (a psychoactive drug found in
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). 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
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's office would continue to investigate his cause of death in a "timely manner". A May 2022 article from Andy Green and Kory Grow in ''
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'' 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,
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and
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, 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, the Green-Grow article went on to state that "his friends believe 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.


Tributes

The Foo Fighters announced the death of Hawkins in a
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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
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for Hawkins.
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, who had worked with Hawkins on her 2020 album, '' Plastic Hearts'', dedicated her Brazil's Lollapalooza performance to him.
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, a longtime friend of Hawkins, dedicated " Live Forever" to him at his
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concert for
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the day after his death, describing him as a "brother" and "a fucking joy".
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, who had worked with Hawkins on his album, ''
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'', dedicated a performance of " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to him. At his investiture ceremony at
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, Queen drummer Roger Taylor dedicated his
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to Hawkins, describing him as "sunshine in human form" and adding that he had been a mentor to his own son
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. At the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival the
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drummer,
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, used a drum kit with "Taylor" written on it. At the end of their set, Smith made a speech dedicating their performance to Hawkins. On April 3, 2022, the 64th Grammy Awards paid tribute to Hawkins with a brief montage of blended interviews and backstage home videos with live footage, ending in an audience singalong of the Foo Fighters' 1998 single " My Hero".
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paid tribute during her Grammys performance wearing an oversized T-shirt with a picture of Hawkins' face on the front and his last name in capital letters printed on the back.


Tribute concerts

On June 8, 2022, the Foo Fighters and the family of Hawkins announced two shows in tribute to Hawkins. The first show, played at
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in London, took place on September 3, 2022. The Foo Fighters were joined by
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,
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, Martin Chambers, Chris Chaney,
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,
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, Josh Freese,
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,
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,
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, Greg Kurstin,
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, Mark Ronson,
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, Roger Taylor,
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, and Wolfgang Van Halen, plus members of Hawkins's cover band, Chevy Metal. His son Oliver Shane Hawkins paid tribute to his father with 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. The guest list reunited, in whole or in part, several of Hawkins' favorite bands including
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and Rush. Some had not played together for a long time, including Dave Grohl's supergroup Them Crooked Vultures (12 years) and the
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(16 years). The second tribute concert, at the
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in
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, 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, the James Gang, and Chevy Metal. Also appearing were
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,
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, Phil Collen,
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, Joe Elliott, Joan Jett, Mark King (musician), Mark King, Tommy Lee,
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, Pink (singer), Pink, Nikki Sixx,
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, Jon Theodore, Brad Wilk, Nancy Wilson, and Patrick Wilson (musician), Patrick Wilson.


Discography

;Source


Alanis Morissette

* ''Jagged Little Pill, Live'' (1997)


Foo Fighters

* ''
There Is Nothing Left to Lose ''There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' is the third studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on November 2, 1999, through Roswell and RCA Records. It marked the first appearance of drummer Taylor Hawkins, and is often seen as a dep ...
'' (1999) * ''One by One (Foo Fighters album), One by One'' (2002) * '' In Your Honor'' (2005) * ''Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'' (2007) * ''
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'' (10th Anniversary Special Edition [bonus tracks], 2007) * ''Wasting Light'' (2011) * ''Sonic Highways'' (2014) * ''Saint Cecilia (EP), Saint Cecilia'' (2015) * ''
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'' (2017) * ''Medicine at Midnight'' (2021)


Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders

* ''Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders (album), Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders'' (2006) * '' Red Light Fever'' (2010) * '' Get the Money'' (2019)


Nighttime Boogie Association

* ''Long In The Tooth/The Path We’re On'' (Single) (2020)


NHC

* ''Feed The Cruel/Better Move On'' (Single) (2021) * ''Devil That You Know/Lazy Eyes'' (Single) (2021) * ''Intakes & Outtakes'' (EP) (2022)


The Birds of Satan

* ''
The Birds of Satan The Birds of Satan were an American progressive rock, progressive hard rock Supergroup (music), supergroup, assembled in 2014 as a side-project led by Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters. The band was also composed of members Wiley Hodgden and Mick ...
'' (2014)


Coheed and Cambria

* '' Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow'' (2007)


Solo

* ''Taylor Hawkins'' (EP) (Recorded 1996; unreleased) * ''Kota'' (EP) (2016)


Session appearances

* ''
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'' (2008) – Eric Avery * ''Sound City: Real to Reel'' (2013) – with Dave Grohl * ''Rush 2112: 40th Anniversary'' (2016) – cover of composition "Overture" (part of 2112 (song), 2112), with Dave Grohl and Nick Raskulinecz * ''Kind Heaven'' (2019) – Perry Farrell * '' Plastic Hearts'' (2020) –
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* ''
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'' (2021) –
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* '' Patient Number 9'' (2022) –
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References


External links

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