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coyote wrote:Not trying to disrespect Taylor Hawkins, rip.

Did not realize the drummer of Foo Fighters was a household name. I’m pretty out of touch, just assumed Grohl was the frontman and the backing band was full of largely unknown or unrecognized players?

I guess I just have no idea what’s going on in the world, lmfao. Thought Foo Fighters weren’t even a popular band nowadays.

Huh. Nirvana meant so much to me as a youngster that I always kept up with - even though I don't really like - Foo Fighters. The first record was all Dave Grohl, but he brought a band on to tour it - the bassist and drummer from Sunny Day Real Estate and Pat Smear, who (you know this, of course) played with Nirvana and was in the Germs. The drummer from SDRE was kicked out and Taylor Hawkins - who was Alanis Morrissette's touring drummer for the whole Jagged Little Pill thing - was brought on board near the end of The Colour and the Shape. Smear left after Colour - which is also when I stopped listening to their music - and some other dude who was in a band w/ Grohl before Nirvana came on board for a hot second. Then Chris Shifflett - Schiflet? Shiflet? dunno - joined the band soon after that guy left. Chris was in No Use for a Name and Me First & The Gimme Gimmes and he stayed in the band even as Pat Smear returned. I bring all this up because I've always understood the "backing" band of Foo Fighters to be full of real rockstars that joined Dave Grohl in his band, kind of the exact opposite of your understanding. They also sold out 2 nights in a row at Wembley in 08 - which fits something like 100,000 people - and I think they've only become more popular since. Anyway, not trying to disagree with your opinion, and I don't really care about Taylor Hawkins dying, but they're a pretty big band with some pretty notable names beyond Dave Grohl. Reality is, you listen and pay attention to way better music than this so you're not missing out at all.

FWIW, never heard of Taylor Hawkins one time in my life until I saw he had died. If you wanted a sense of the generational lines on this one.

Mira Calix

chrondog wrote:FWIW, never heard of Taylor Hawkins one time in my life until I saw he had died. If you wanted a sense of the generational lines on this one.

well ain't that something

To support the generational divide theory I never cared about the Foo Fighters and thus have no earthly idea why I know who Taylor Hawkins is.

Yeah, I'm on the wouldn't have known the name "Taylor Hawkins" without "Foo Fighters" attached to it team, yeah.

Definitely a bummer though. The drummer from Foo Fighters seemed like a good dude so no wonder he spent his life being the drummer from Foo Fighters. A Solid Bro profession if ever there was one.

Drummer from the Foo Fighters singing a Cheap Trick deep cut on David LETTING show or whatever it was called
https://youtu.be/8Rau4jcYIvI

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies

I am completely shocked that Jamie branch passed away. I literally just listened to Antelopers new alb while I was cooking and she was gone. I’m really sad about this one.

Pharaoh Sanders is one of my favorite musicians of all time. The Creator Has A Master plan is one of my favorite songs of all time. His playing is like the feeling of having someone comfort you when you’re real down. He had a ‘knowing’ in his playing that I haven’t heard anywhere else. May you rest eternally you beautiful human soul.

Coolio!

At Lollapalooza - the original touring Lolla not this shitty version in Grant Park - during Cypress Hill’s set Coolio ran through the crowd with super soakers and it was fun as hell.

Strong smell of weed in the air, crowd going wild and the dude responsible for “Fantastic Voyage” spraying us with super soakers.

Man, loved Coolio back in the days.

RIP Norm Chambers of Panabrite. I won’t lie and say I was a huge fan but one of his albums was part of that giant constellation tatsu discography that I bought earlier this year and it’s quite good. Sad loss.

BGwaves wrote:RIP Norm Chambers of Panabrite. I won’t lie and say I was a huge fan but one of his albums was part of that giant constellation tatsu discography that I bought earlier this year and it’s quite good. Sad loss.

I recently read that he was ill.

Don't remember who introduced me to his music, I didn't get deep into his discography but Soft Terminal was one of those key let me bury myself into one of these desks back in the quietest corner of the library and see if the Adderall works today-albums.

Not who I expected to read about when I saw this thread was bumped.

undo wrote:Not who I expected to read about when I saw this thread was bumped.

I was thinking DH Peligro.

Guess I'll mention how fucked up it is Takeoff died.

Yeah DH was another sad one. Jello wrote a nice tribute to him.

Takeoff dying is sad but I didn’t listen to Migos and figured someone else would be better suited for that post.

RIP Mimi Parker. Very sad news about her passing away. Low have always been an incredible band IMO and their last 2 albums perfectly soundtrack the chaos our world is descending into while still capturing beauty and optimism.

That is sad. Their performance at the Pitchfork festival this year was one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Zappo’s FB post on Christine McVie says so much more than I ever could. Damn.

I think McVie and Nicks don’t get enough credit for laying the seeds of what would become dream pop. I can hear it in their lush harmonies, use of eastern tinged melodies, and an overall soft production style. Doing the rounds are McVies contributions Tell Me Lies and Everywhere. If either of these songs had cavernous reverb we would be calling them indie classics.

RIP

Angelo Badalamenti, the genius behind the score for National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, has died

Manuel Göttsching

Should probably have checked this dude out beyond E2-E4