Machine Gun Kelly shares message to Taylor Hawkins’ children: “Your father is a great, great man”

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Machine Gun Kelly has shared his memories of the late Taylor Hawkins and said that he wants to tell the drummer’s children that “your father is a great, great man”.The Foo Fighters drummer passed away last Friday (March 25) at the age of 50 in Bogotá, Colombia while the band were on their South American tour.Speaking on The Howard Stern Show this week, Kelly recalled meeting Hawkins in Paraguay, where they due to play at the same festival together before bad weather conditions forced the cancellation of the event, two days before the drummer’s death.“It sucked because that day was the day the Foo Fighters were playing with us on the same stage,” Kelly said. “I had texted Dave [Grohl] and he was like, ’Yes, I’m gonna come watch the show’.

They had never seen the show and that was the day where it was like, ‘Oh my God the Foo Fighters are gonna come watch our show!’“We were so excited, man. [But] the rain came and I saw lightning start to happen,” Kelly added, which forced the cancellation of his show. “So I’m texting Dave and we’re super-bummed, and he’s like, ‘Come over to the hotel, we’re going to shut the rooftop down and we’ll have some drinks.'”Kelly continued: “We got out of the elevator, all 20 of [his entourage], and Taylor, Dave, the whole Foo Fighters team… but specifically Taylor, he went up to every single one of us and gave us each our moment.

Like, every single one of us, man, down to my assistant – they’re relating over, ‘Oh you’re from Topanga? I’m from Topanga!’ It was like, dude, he’s such a beautiful soul, man.”Kelly said that, during the night, Hawkins “stopped at every single person and gave his heart”, and that when they left the hotel “the kids in us came out: ‘This is the greatest night of our.