Oliver Shane Hawkins, son of the late drum icon Taylor Hawkins has performed a cover of the Foo Fighters My Hero in tribute to his father. Oliver took the throne at a Laguna Beach block party over the weekend. Some footage from the event, which saw Oliver temporarily unseat the drummer of the local act The Alive can be watched below.
@lagtownsfinest The hawk wouldve been proud 🦅 #taylorhawkins #foofighters #fyp ♬ original sound - Lagtownsfinest
The tribute follows the elder Hawkins' untimely death earlier this year. Taylor Hawkins' passing has had a profound impact on the music community, in May 1000 musicians came together to pay a moving musical tribute to their brethren and hero, Taylor Hawkins, playing a 1000-member cover of the Foo Fighters' track My Hero. The performance took place as part of the Rockin' 1000 concert in Paris at the Stade de France, featuring notable musicians Fever 333's Aric Improta and Telephone drummer Richard Kolinka performing alongside 998 others.
The moving tribute is made even more significant when you consider that the origin of the Rockin' 1000 group was 1,000 musicians coming together to learn and perform Foo Fighters' Learn to Fly in hopes of reaching Dave Grohl and inspiring him to play a Foos show in Cesena, Italy at which some of the band members ended up being invited to play the track with the Foos.
If these heartfelt tributes have you wanting to reconnect with the music of Taylor Hawkins and you're not sure where to start, there are worse places than our Best Of Taylor playlist. Hawkins' last known recorded output was the Foo Fighters 2021 record Medicine At Midnight, which picked up three Grammy Awards in April.
Hawkins was last seen in Australia playing a massive one-off show at GMHBA Stadium in Geelong, Victoria, earlier this month where he was his usual energetic, captivating self, dominating behind the kit and then leading the crowd in a massive cover of Queen's Somebody To Love on vocals.
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