The band’s 11th album is an expression of grief following the loss of former drummer Taylor Hawkins and the death of Grohl’s mother
At a star-studded tribute to Taylor Hawkins last year at London’s Wembley Stadium, a parade of drummers celebrated and stepped in for the late Foo Fighters timekeeper. For the final song, however, the seat at the kit was empty. Hawkins could be seen as both eminently replaceable and utterly irreplaceable in the space of one show.
Bidini and the Rheostatics have had a number of drummers, including one early on who quit after the rest of the band told him his grandmother’s cookies were pathetically bad. Later, in 1995, when Don Kerr replaced Dave Clark, newcomer Kerr took some flak. “It was in the early days of online message boards,” Bidini recalled. “There were some real anti-Don Kerr fans, and it was really hard for him.”
The Rolling Stones, on the other hand, replaced Charlie Watts without missing a beat. Only one month after Watts died in 2021, the Stones kicked off a tour with Steve Jordan in place of their drummer of nearly six decades. Of course, the Stones are something other than sentimentalists: Just two days after former member Brian Jones drowned in 1969, the band hosted a free outdoor festival in London’s Hyde Park.
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