Dave Grohl Was Exceptionally Close To Taylor Hawkins And His Band Foo Fighters

In recent news, it was reported that the Foo Fighters’ Drummer “Taylor Hawkins” tragically passed away. On Friday morning, he was found dead in a Bogota hotel room. As the doctors received complaints of chest pain from the hotel so they sent an ambulance from the emergency center. After which a thorough investigation took place. And Hawkins had 10 substances in his system.

Upon receiving this tragic news, the band wrote:

The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and ultimately loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins. His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family. And we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in thus unimaginably difficult time.

Dave Grohl lost his Best Friend

The friendship of Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins was of 25 years. And they have innumerable memories together. They always talked about each other in interviews and appeared quite fond of one another’s company. In his memoir, Grohl wrote:

Upon first meeting, our bond was immediate, and we grew closer every day, every song, every note that we played together. I am not afraid to say that our chance meeting was a kind of love at first sight, igniting a musical ‘twin flame’ that still burns to this day. Together. we have become an unstoppable duo, onstage and off, in pursuit of any and all adventure we can find.

Grohl traumatized by Hawkins’s first Overdose in 2001

In 2001, Taylor Hawkins overdosed and went into a coma. This incident alone was enough to make Grohl walk out of the music business. Furthermore, Dave Grohl had lost Kurt Cobain 7 years before that. So, the wound was still very fresh. Now, in 2022 he has lost his best friend.

Because, to me, it felt like music equaled death. I started praying. I’ve never been to church in my life, and I’m walking ack from Taylor’s hospital to our hotel every night, praying out loud in the streets of London.

Dave also admitted that Hawkins was his best friend and life partner that he unfortunately lost.