Foo Fighters celebrated Taylor Hawkins’ reminiscence and music at a particular gig in London on Saturday, September 3. Hawkins, the band’s drummer since 1997, died in Bogotá, Colombia on March 25. He was 50 years previous. Foo Fighters carried out for a few hours at Wembley Stadium for a particular tribute present for the late band drummer Taylor Hawkins. ‘The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert events’ additionally came about at LA’s Kia Discussion board on September 27.

Former Police member Stewart Copeland lately joined for an interview with AXS TV’s Energy Hour and made a comment in regards to the Taylor Hawkins tribute live performance he joined.

It was famous that Wolfgang Van Halen was additionally current in the identical chat as the opposite visitor and the dialog moved to if Wolf and Copeland knew one another.

The Mammoth WVH frontman recalled how they met within the Hawkins tribute. When the drummer stated what an unimaginable day it was, Van Halen continued:

“I imply, with the emotional weight of all of it, that was one of the crucial particular issues I believe I’ve ever been part of, actually.”

Copeland agreed with him, explaining the significance of the live performance:

“Me too. I imply, I’ve been concerned in lots of issues, however I believe that was in all probability the most important present day ever.”

Ultimately, one of many hosts went again to the tribute live performance and referred to as it ‘a love letter to drumming,’ as many modern drummers had been part of it. Stewart added with a remark:

“What it was was a large audition for who the subsequent Foo Fighters drummer is gonna be. In entrance of 80,000 individuals, they obtained to camp everyone. For me, Chad [Smith], everyone was there. Omar [Hakim] holding it down, and Josh [Freese]. All people was there. All obtained their likelihood to be a Foo Fighter for 2 songs.”

It’s identified that Copeland was an enormous affect on Taylor Hawkins, and the 2 later turned associates. Following the latter’s dying, the musician shared his ideas on the late drummer in an interview with Jill Riley, saying:

“He’s a really effusive, cheerful, upbeat. He has a really effervescent character. He’s a fan, superfan. I used to be like, ‘You’re a rock star, okay? present a bit of disrespect.’ However he’s in that strata in a bandwidth of people that had been 16 after I was in my glory days.”

Stewart performed a rendition of the Police’s 1978 single ‘Subsequent to You,’ and one other Police basic ‘Each Little Factor She Does Is Magic,’ with Foo Fighters and Gaz Coombes becoming a member of him on the tribute present.