Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey has paid fresh tribute to the “unstoppable” Taylor Hawkins while sharing some memories of touring with Foo Fighters.Goffey spoke to NME as part of this week’s special Big Read cover feature, which offers an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at this month’s star-studded Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in London.Supergrass played a three-song set at the Wembley Stadium event, with the likes of Queen, Liam Gallagher, Them Crooked Vultures and Brian Johnson all performing ahead of a touching closing show from the Foos themselves.“As a musician, [Hawkins] was sort of unstoppable,” Goffey told NME a few days before the concert. “His playing for three hours at breakneck speed was something to behold.
It was almost superhuman.”Looking back on the times Supergrass toured with the Foos, the drummer explained how Hawkins would “sit behind the drum kit shouting encouragement and laughing at my terrible dynamics and sloppy drumming”.Goffey continued: “He told me, ‘Don’t ever lose that, because that’s who you are as a drummer.'”The Supergrass sticksman went on to describe Hawkins a “just a dude” who was “always smiling […], always encouraging and was always positive”.“He was just a bright light,” he told NME. “Whenever we’d tour, he’d spend the whole time doing this terrible British accent.
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