Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins: It was love at first sight

Dave Grohl’s memoir The Storyteller contains emotional words about his relationship with his recently deceased bandmate and best friend Taylor Hawkins.

Taylor Hawkins left Alanis Morissette for the Foo Fighters

Hawkins began playing in Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette’s band in 1995. So Grohl, who was looking for a drummer at the time, became aware of the drummer. Not expecting Hawkins to part ways with Morissette, Grohl approached him to ask him about suggestions for recasting the drums for the Foo Fighters. In fact, Hawkins was interested in the job with the Foo Fighters himself. In 1997 he joined the band and the friendship between him and Grohl began to develop.

Grohl and Hawkins had a spiritual relationship

In The Storyteller, Dave Grohl writes of his late confidant as “my brother from another mother, my best friend, a man I would take a bullet for.” The singer reports on the development of the relationship: “When we first met, there was an immediate connection and we grew closer together with every day, every song and every note that we played together.” Grohl describes this very expressively Meeting of the two as “a kind of love at first sight” and becomes even spiritual in the next few lines: The two had “ignited a musical “twin flame” that burns to this day.

“Made for Each Other”

The two have become deeply connected “to become an unstoppable duo that seeks every adventure on stage and off it”. “We are absolutely meant to be together and I am grateful that we found each other in this life,” Grohl said of Hawkins.

Taylor Hawkins passed away last Friday evening (March 25) at the age of 50. The cause of death has not yet been clarified, but a toxicological analysis was able to identify various substances, including opioids, THC and antidepressants in the musician’s body. He is said to have complained of chest pains shortly beforehand, and the investigation into the tragic death is still ongoing.

+++ This article first appeared on rollingstone.de +++

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