Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died, the band announced on Twitter late Friday night. He was 50. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever,” the band wrote.Shortly after the tragic announcement, the band backed out of its scheduled performance at the Picnic Stereo Festival in Bogotá, Colombia.
pic.twitter.com/ffPHhUKRT4#ÚltimaHora Foo Fighters no se presentará en el Festival Estéreo Picnic. pic.twitter.com/2qDPBWkWxOHawkins joined Foo Fighters in 1997 after spending two years as Alanis Morissette’s touring drummer.
In 2006, he released his solo project Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders.The band just released their horror-comedy “Studio 666” in February.
In the film, the members poke fun at themselves in the haunted house they rented out to work on their 2021 album “Medicine at Midnight.”“It is something I never wanted to or expected to do.
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