After hours of emceeing and enjoying numerous devices for different acts, Dave Grohl closed out the Taylor Hawkins tribute in London with the surviving members of Foo Fighters and shock visitor Paul McCartney.
Though nobody can substitute Hawkins behind the package, the Foos had been joined by various drummers throughout their set, together with Josh Freese on “Times Like These” and “All My Life,” Travis Barker on “The Pretender” and “Monkey Wrench,” Rufus Taylor on “These Days and “Best of You,” 12-year-old phenom Nandi Bushell on “Learn To Fly” and Hawkins’ 16-year-old son Shane, who was completely thunderous on “My Hero.”
“Pulling this whole thing together over the last three months, we met some really amazing people — people I’ve never met before,” Dave Grohl mentioned after “Best of You.” “One of them, I got to stand on stage with tonight and play the bass: Miss Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders, who I happen to think is the baddest motherfucker in the world. She brought a friend tonight.”
That pal was none aside from McCartney, who shocked the gang by dusting off The Beatles’ “Oh, Darling.” “God bless Taylor,” mentioned McCartney, who inducted the Foos into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. “Me and Chrissie are gonna do a song here that I haven’t done since I recorded it 100 years ago. I’ve never done it as a duet, but we’re gonna do it tonight for the first time, for you.”
McCartney caught round to sing lead on “Helter Skelter,” not earlier than relating an anecdote about being requested to play drums, of all devices, on the Foo Fighters track “Sunday Rain.” “This group has two of the best drummers in the world, and they wanted me to drum on it, so I did,” he mentioned with a smile of the observe, which appeared on the Foos’ 2017 album Concrete and Gold. “Quite a memory.”
The set continued with “Aurora,” which had earlier soundtracked an emotional pre-show photograph montage of Hawkins and, like the 2 Beatles covers, featured Omar Hakim on drums. “I think this next song was Taylor’s favorite Foo Fighters song, so we knew we had to do it tonight,” Grohl mentioned.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone hit the drums as hard as this person,” Grohl instructed the viewers when introducing Shane Hawkins after “Aurora.” “Beyond that, he’s a member of our family, and he needs to be here tonight with all of us.”
This was the primary time the Foos have carried out dwell with out Hawkins, who handed away unexpectedly in March on the age of fifty. Tonight’s live performance was the primary of two honoring the late drummer; the second is ready for Sept. 27 on the Kia Forum in Los Angeles with a lot of tonight’s performers, in addition to Alanis Morissette, Miley Cyrus, P!nk, Gene Simmons, Joan Jett, Nikki Sixx, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk, amongst others.
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