More than just bandmates. Take a look back at Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins' friendship over the years.
played together in Foo Fighters for 25 years, but their friendship also flourished outside the studio.
When the duo first met in the mid-1990s, Grohl was already world famous as the drummer for Nirvana. In April 1994, however, the band’s career came to a tragic end when frontman died by suicide at age 27. The Ohio native later initially thought he wouldn’t play music again after the loss of his bandmate, but by late 1994, he had started work on the project that would become Foo Fighters., blew up after its release in June 1995. The late musician and Grohl kept bumping into each other on the tour circuit.
Though the Queens of the Stone Age collaborator was impressed by Hawkins’ percussion skills, he was equally as intrigued by his personality. “When he joined the band, his drumming was the least important factor,” Grohl told in February 2021. “I just thought, ‘I want to travel the world with this guy, I want to jump on stage and drink beers with this person.’ That was my biggest concern.”
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