Stewart Copeland Celebrates Fellow Drumming Great Taylor Hawkins: ‘We’re Talking Charlie Watts Sublime Here’
variety.comJonathan Cohen Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25 at age 50, took every opportunity to salute his musical heroes, the most frequently name-checked of whom were Rush’s Neil Peart, Queen’s Roger Taylor and the Police’s Stewart Copeland.
Hawkins, Dave Grohl and their Foo Fighters bandmates loved nothing more than to jam with their idols, whether it be in front of 80,000 people at a London soccer stadium or in front of friends-and-family audiences at the band’s cozy Studio 606 in Los Angeles.
Copeland, 69, experienced that fun firsthand on a number of occasions when he sat in with the Foos, and came to know Hawkins well as a friend over the past 15 years both on-stage and off-.
He spoke to Variety about some of these experiences, and why Hawkins’ sudden death is such a major loss for the tight-knit musical community they’d helped forge. I understand you had just finished a show with your Police Deranged for Orchestra project when you heard the news about Taylor?In fact, I was just coming off stage with the Nashville Symphony.
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