Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins reportedly admitted that he “couldn’t f****** do it anymore” just months before he died.
Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron was a close friend of Hawkins’ and claimed that the musician said those words prior to his death.
Matt recorded music with Hawkins under one of his side projects, Night Time Boogie Association, and said that he had a “heart to heart” with Dave Grohl.
However, a representative for Foo Fighters denied that Taylor raised those issues and said there was “never a heart to heart” or “any sort of meeting on that topic”.
Taylor’s friend and former boss Sass Jordan said that she “thinks he was just so tired” of “the whole game”.
A friend who asked to remain anonymous told Rolling Stone: “The fact that he finally spoke to Dave and really told him that he couldn’t do this and that he wouldn’t do it anymore, that was freeing for him. That took f****** balls.”
They continued: “That did take a year of working up the guts to do.”
A representative for Foo Fighters said: “He never informed Dave and [management] of anything at all like that.”
Taylor joined the band in 1997 and recorded nine studio albums with them.
In 2004, he created a side project called Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, with whom he was a vocalist and a drummer.
The band released three studio albums between 2006 and 2019 and he formed a “supergroup” with Jane’s Addiction band members Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney.
The band’s only album is due to be released this year.
(Image: Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
Hawkins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 2021 while part of the Foo Fighters and was voted Best Rock Drummer in 2005 by Rhythm magazine.
Taylor died on March 25 when emergency services were called to the hotel he was staying at.
Hawkins was suffering from chest pains at the Four Seasons Casa Medina hotel in Columbia where responders performed CPR on the musician, only to find him unresponsive and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was 50 years old when he died.
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