Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters gathered their friends and family, including Miley Cyrus and Dave Chappelle, Sept. 27 to wage tribute to the band's precocious drummer Taylor Hawkins.
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For 1 night, Los Angeles' Kia Forum was the epicenter of stone 'n' rotation arsenic Dave Grohl gathered his friends to erstwhile much grant the late Taylor Hawkins in an epic six-hour agelong celebration.
On Sept. 27, Grohl took the signifier to unfastened the show, paying tribute to the California native, who was recovered dormant successful a Colombia edifice country successful March. "This is the hometown s--t truthful you gotta marque it large and crook it up," the affectional rocker said, noting Hawkins' quality to "make you f--king grin and creation and laughter and sing."
"What we truly wanted to bash was to wage tribute to Taylor successful a mode that you could benignant of walk immoderate clip successful his philharmonic mind," helium added, "which could beryllium a beauteous terrifying place, actually."
So helium gathered rather the lineup to grant Hawkins' legacy.
Joan Jett and Blink 182's Travis Barker performed rousing renditions of "Cherry Bomb" and "Bad Reputation," Miley Cyrus went note for note with Def Leppard's Joe Elliot connected "Photograph" and Pink joined if we are bolding the different bands, let's bold queen Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor to beforehand "Somebody to Love," a opus Hawkins often performed astatine Foo Fighters' concerts.
At the petition of Hawkins' wife, Alison Hawkins, May sang an acoustic mentation of Freddie Mercury's "Love of My Life" and Alanis Morissette—who Hawkins played for her set earlier helium joined Foo Fighters— delivered 1 of the astir emotionally almighty moments of the amusement with a passionate show of "You Oughta Know."
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To adjacent retired the 53-song night, which comes 24 days aft the set honored him successful London, the Foo Fighters took the signifier for a 12-song acceptable featuring impermanent drummers, comedian Dave Chappelle and Hawkins' 16-year-old lad Shane Hawkins.
"I person to say," Dave said, "this performance compared to the London concert, this f--cking rocks harder."
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