LOS ANGELES --
Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and greatest good friend of frontman Dave Grohl, has died throughout a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50.
There have been few instant particulars on how Hawkins died, though the band mentioned in an announcement Friday that his loss of life was a "tragic and premature loss."
Colombia's Prosecutor's Workplace launched an announcement Saturday saying toxicological exams on urine from Hawkins' physique preliminarily discovered 10 psychoactive substances and medicines, together with marijuana, opioids, tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines. It didn't present a reason behind loss of life and investigations are persevering with.
Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at a pageant in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday evening. Hawkins' remaining live performance was Sunday at one other pageant in San Isidro, Argentina.
"His musical spirit and infectious laughter will stay on with all of us eternally," mentioned a message on the band's official Twitter account that was additionally emailed to reporters. "Our hearts exit to his spouse, kids and household."
The Bogota municipal authorities issued an announcement Saturday that the town's emergency middle had obtained a report of a affected person with "chest ache" and despatched an ambulance, although a non-public ambulance had already arrived on the lodge in northern Bogota.
Well being employees tried to revive him, however had been unable to take action.
"It was a band I grew up with. This leaves me empty," Juan Sebastian Anchique, 23, instructed The Related Press as he mourned Hawkins outdoors the lodge.
The U.S. Embassy in Bogota additionally expressed its condolences in a tweet.
After Grohl, Hawkins was essentially the most recognizable member of the group, showing alongside the lead singer in interviews and enjoying outstanding, normally comedian, roles within the band's memorable movies and their latest horror-comedy movie, "Studio 666."
Hawkins was Alanis Morissette's touring drummer when he joined Foo Fighters in 1997. He performed on the band's largest albums together with "One by One" and "In Your Honor," and on hit singles like "Better of You."
In Grohl's 2021 e-book "The Storyteller," he known as Hawkins his "brother from one other mom, my greatest good friend, a person for whom I'd take a bullet."
"Upon first assembly, our bond was instant, and we grew nearer with day by day, each track, each observe that we ever performed collectively," Grohl wrote. "We're completely meant to be, and I'm grateful that we discovered one another on this lifetime."
It is the second time Grohl has skilled the loss of life of a detailed bandmate. Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana when Kurt Cobain died in 1994.
Tributes poured out on social media for Hawkins.
"God bless you Taylor Hawkins," Rage Towards The Machine guitarist Tom Morello mentioned on Twitter together with a photograph of himself, Hawkins and Jane's Dependancy singer Perry Farrell. "I liked your spirit and your unstoppable rock energy."
"What an unimaginable expertise, who did not additionally must be so type and beneficiant and funky however was all these issues too anyway," tweeted Finneas, Billie Eilish's brother, co-writer and producer. "The world was so fortunate to have his items for the time that it did."
On the pageant the place Foo Fighters had been scheduled to carry out, information of the loss of life leaked out slowly, mentioned Diego Baez, a 33-year-old fan.
A live performance organizer first introduced the efficiency was cancelled for medical causes. Minutes later, followers discovered from social media of Hawkins' loss of life.
"Some cried. Others had been unhappy, astonished, moved. It was a really highly effective second," Baez mentioned.
A display screen projected the phrases "Taylor Hawkins eternally" whereas the track "My Hero" performed.
Born Oliver Taylor Hawkins in Fort Price, Texas, in 1972, Hawkins was raised in Laguna Seashore, California. He performed within the small Southern California band Sylvia earlier than touchdown his first main gig as a drummer for Canadian singer Sass Jordan.
Hawkins instructed The Related Press in 2019 that his early drumming influences included Stewart Copeland of The Police, Roger Taylor from Queen, and Phil Collins, who he mentioned was "one in every of my favourite drummers ever. , folks neglect that he was an excellent drummer in addition to a sweater-wearing good man from the '80s, poor fella."
When he spent two years within the mid-Nineties drumming for Morissette, he was impressed primarily by the enjoying of Jane's Dependancy's Stephen Perkins.
"My drums had been arrange like him, the entire thing," Hawkins instructed the AP. "I used to be nonetheless form of a copycat at that time. It takes some time and takes a short while to form of set up your individual form of model. I did not sound precisely like him, I sound like me, however he was a giant, enormous affect."
He and Grohl met backstage at a present when Hawkins was nonetheless with Morissette. Grohl's band would have a gap quickly after when then-drummer William Goldsmith left. Grohl known as Hawkins, who was an enormous Foo Fighters fan and instantly accepted.
"I'm not afraid to say that our likelihood assembly was a form of love at first sight, igniting a musical `twin flame' that also burns to at the present time," Grohl wrote in his e-book. "Collectively, now we have change into an unstoppable duo, onstage and off, in pursuit of any and all journey we are able to discover."
Hawkins first appeared with the band within the 1997 video for Foo Fighters' hottest track, "Everlong," though he had but to affix the group when the track was recorded. He would, nevertheless, go on to pound out epic variations of it a whole bunch of instances because the climax of Foo Fighters' concert events.
In one other spotlight of the group's stay reveals, Grohl would get behind the drums and Hawkins would seize the mic to sing a canopy of Queen's "Someone to Love."
"The perfect a part of attending to be the lead singer of the Foo Fighters for only for one track is I actually do have the best rock `n' roll drummer on the planet earth," Hawkins mentioned earlier than the track in a March 18 live performance in Chile.
Grohl could be heard telling him to close up.
Hawkins additionally costarred in Foo Fighters' not too long ago launched movie, "Studio 666," by which a demonic drive in a home the place the band is staying seizes Grohl and makes him murderous. Hawkins and the opposite members of the band are killed off one after the other. The premise got here out of their work on their tenth studio album at a house in Los Angeles.
He additionally drummed and sang for the side-project trio Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders. They launched an album, "Get the Cash," in 2006.
Hawkins is survived by his spouse Alison and their three kids.
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Related Press Writers Astrid Suarez and Manuel Rueda contributed to this report from Bogota, Colombia.
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