All his daily life, Shane Hawkins will honor his father by way of new music.
A tiny additional than a calendar year after Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died at age 50, his 17-yr-outdated son continued to carry on his father’s legacy by becoming a member of the band onstage for their May well 26 overall performance at the Boston Contacting Songs Competition.
“How about we do a music with just one of my favored drummers in the planet?” singer Dave Grohl asked the audience, per Individuals. “Women and gentlemen, Shane Hawkins!”
Shane then took the stage in Allston, Mass., to enjoy drums for the group’s 1995 song “I am going to Adhere All around,” and it appears like it was actually a evening to keep in mind.
“Many thanks for past night #foofighters,” he wrote on Instagram following the clearly show, “so significantly f–kin enjoyment.”
Previously this thirty day period, the Foo Fighters disclosed that drummer Josh Freese — who earlier played for Guns N’ Roses and 9 Inch Nails — would officially take over as their drummer as they embarked on their tour May 24. The rock band is also releasing its up coming album, “But In this article We Are,” on June 2.
The Foo Fighters’ subsequent chapter will come a year after the customers shared information of Taylor’s passing in March 2022.
“The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and premature decline of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” they wrote on Instagram at the time. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will are living on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, youngsters and family, and we inquire that their privacy be handled with the utmost respect in this unimaginably complicated time.”
The Colombian Attorney General’s Office environment reported Taylor experienced drugs in his process when he died but has not shared his result in of demise.
Three months right after Taylor’s loss of life, his wife Alison Hawkins — who shares Shane, as effectively as Annabel, 14, and Everleigh, 8, with the late musician — broke her silence on his passing by thanking lovers “for the outpouring of like each individual and every one particular of you have revealed our beloved Taylor.”
“Your kindness has been an a must have consolation for my household and me during this time of unimaginable grief,” she wrote in a assertion on Instagram. Calling the performers her “loved ones,” Alison went on to say, “Taylor’s endearing spirit and deep like of music will reside on for good via the collaborations he so savored having with other musicians and the catalog of songs he contributed to and created.”
