Taylor Hawkins’ Final Performance: Watch Foo Fighters Play ‘Everlong’

The surprising information of Taylor Hawkins’ demise is simply starting to reverberate around the globe, and little is thought past what the Foo Fighters launched of their public assertion. “Our hearts exit to his spouse, kids and household,” they wrote, “and we ask that their privateness by handled with the utmost respect on this unimaginably troublesome time.”

When Hawkins died, the Foo Fighters have been in Colombia making ready to play on the Estéreo Picnic pageant on the identical invoice because the Strokes, J. Balvin, and the Libertines. Their final gig with the drummer happened 5 days earlier, on March twentieth at Lollapalooza Argentina. The 19-song present featured Hawkins singing lead on Queen’s “Any individual to Love,” a canopy of Jane’s Dependancy’s “Been Caught Stealing” with particular visitor Perry Farrell, and a ultimate encore of “Everlong.”

Right here’s pro-shot video of “Everlong” from that night time, which wound up being the final track Hawkins performed with the Foos. “I don’t say goodbye,” Dave Grohl instructed the gang earlier than kicking it off. “I don’t wish to say goodbye. I do know that we’ll all the time come again. When you come again, we’ll come again. Will you come again? When you come again, we’ll come again, so then I received’t need to say goodbye.”

On the finish of the track, Hawkins tossed his drum sticks to the viewers, threw his arm over Grohl’s shoulder, and took a bow with the remainder of the band. He’s beaming with pleasure. It’s devastating to look at figuring out would come simply 5 days later.

“I feel Taylor actually underestimates his significance on this band,” Grohl stated of Hawkins in a Foo Fighters cowl story in Rolling Stone final 12 months. “Possibly as a result of he’s not the unique drummer, however, my God, what would we be with out Taylor Hawkins? May you think about? It will be a totally completely different factor.”