There tends to be a rush to comment in the light of any loss, and I’ve spent all day thinking about what to post for fear of my silence being taken as indifference.
But this LA Times piece says anything better than I could.
RIP Taylor
That size of that crowd was insane. I wonder how the artists performing on the other stages at the same time fared?
& Poor Royal Blood having to follow that.
#TheChurnUps
Pics of Dave Grohl and
@PaulMcCartney
at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday for the launch of the exhibit 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm'
The next issue of Classic Rock pays tribute to Taylor Hawkins with contributions from The Strut's Luke Spiller & Taylor's childhood friend Jon Davison of Yes.
25 years ago today both of these magazines were on the shelves of UK newsagents as
@foofighters
started their promo campaign for The Colour & The Shape.
Tonight BBC Four continued their Top of the Pops reruns and reached June 29th 1995.
Because ‘This Is A Call’ didn’t have an official video, the episode ended with live footage of
@foofighters
first UK gig.
Watch Johnny Marr dedicate ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ to Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters
"We miss you Taylor and we won't forget you"
‘Closing Time’ a new track credited to all 6 members of Foo Fighters was added to the BMI publishing database in the past few days.
Does this suggest a piece of previously unheard music will be used in some form at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts?
The press release for the
@foofighters
x
@VANS_66
collab has confirmed the shoes will be released on Jan 29th at Van’s retail stores, the Vans website and at
March 2nd is Dr Seuss’ birthday, Read Across America Day & World Book Day...and my birthday too.
So, it seems like a good excuse to repost this pic of my Son from Dave Grohl’s Reddit AMA in 2013.
#DrSuessDay
#ReadAcrossAmericaDay
#WorldBookDay2023
“If I could be any other musician in the world, it would have been Malcolm Young in AC/DC - laying it down on the Gretsch, standing in the back, only moving up to the mic when it was time to do the back-up vocals...” - Dave Grohl, 2017.
#MalcolmYoung
As is customary on December 24th, here’s a link to Dave Grohl reading 'The Night Before Christmas' for
@jowhiley
’s BBC Radio One show back in 2003.
Merry Christmas!
Various UK record sites have started listing a
@foofighters
compilation for release on October 28th.
'The Essential...' is a greatest hits collection from Sony and Foo Fighters will join the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen in the series.
Over on Instagram Jennifer Aniston shared pics from
@foofighters
appearance as themselves in the latest episode of her
@AppleTV
series ‘The Morning Show’
New pics from
@RossHalfin
over on Instagram.
“Dave, l'm sure
- thinks I am a highly opinionated asshole - and that's fine by me because as I always like to remind him - I saw all the best bands before he was born.”
“It was twenty years ago today...”
On this day in 1999
@ChrisShiflett71
made his live debut with
@foofighters
Here’s how Melody Maker introduced him to their readers.
20 years ago tonight I saw
@foofighters
play The Point in Dublin.
Backstage Taylor was playing the piano knocking out (amongst other things) the theme from Cheers.
My girlfriend couldn’t make it so Dave signed a copy of 1x1 for her.
“One of the most requested models in Epiphone's history... we are X-Static to offer this exceptional guitar to players worldwide”: The Epiphone Dave Grohl DG-335 signature exists – and we’ve played it
The new BBC documentary ‘Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music’ contained this clip of Dave Grohl backstage at Phoenix Festival in 1996 talking about the pressure he felt at the start of Foo Fighters.