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Taylor Hawkins
12+ albums
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Taylor Hawkins (born Oliver Taylor Hawkins at Harris Hospital, Fort Worth, TX, on 17 February 1972; died 25 March 2022) was an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters. He released a solo EP, "Kota", in 2016 and also recorded as Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders. He was voted "Best Rock Drummer" in 2005 by the United Kingdom drumming magazine Rhythm. Hawkins has said that his drumming was influenced by Roger Taylor of Queen and Stewart Copeland of The Police. Prior to joining Foo Fighters in 1997, Hawkins was the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill tour, as well as the drummer for a short-lived experimental band called Sylvia. In 2004, Hawkins formed his own side project, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, in which he played drums and sang, and, in 2014, The Birds of Satan. After touring through the spring of 1996, Foo Fighters entered a Seattle studio with producer Gil Norton to record its second album. Conflict erupted between Dave Grohl and then drummer, William Goldsmith, eventually causing Goldsmith to leave the band. The band regrouped in Los Angeles and almost completely re-recorded the album with Grohl on drums. The album, The Colour and the Shape, was released on May 20, 1997. In need of a drummer, Grohl contacted Alanis Morissette's touring drummer Taylor Hawkins to see if he could recommend anybody. Grohl was surprised when Hawkins volunteered himself. Hawkins made his Foo debut in time for th
