{"id":2290325,"date":"2026-02-20T03:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2290325"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:41:26","slug":"foo-fighters-dave-grohl-on-life-without-taylor-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/foo-fighters-dave-grohl-on-life-without-taylor-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters&#8217; Dave Grohl on life without Taylor Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"d4ae3571-9c80-4a14-8c53-096612eaafd8\">Earlier today Foo Fighters announced the release of their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/foo-fighters-announce-new-album-your-favorite-toy\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/foo-fighters-announce-new-album-your-favorite-toy\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/bands-artists\/foo-fighters-announce-new-album-your-favorite-toy\">twelfth studio album, <em>Your Favorite Toy<\/em><\/a>, on April 24, and now <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/dave-grohl-best-albums\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/dave-grohl-best-albums\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/dave-grohl-best-albums\">Dave Grohl<\/a> has revealed that the spirit of late drummer Taylor Hawkins still influences the band&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had Taylor Hawkins as our drummer for 25 years and, beyond being an amazing drummer, he was this incredible spirit,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/station\/apple-music-1\/ra.978194965?ct=loudersound-gb-1429548120490155627&amp;itscg=30200&amp;itsct=music_box_link&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/station\/apple-music-1\/ra.978194965\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/station\/apple-music-1\/ra.978194965?ct=hawk-custom-tracking&amp;itscg=30200&amp;itsct=music_box_link&amp;ls=1\" data-merchant-name=\"Apple Music\" data-merchant-id=\"189413\" data-merchant-network=\"Generic\" data-merchant-url=\"music.apple.com\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">Grohl tells Apple Music 1&#8217;s Zane Lowe<\/a>. &#8220;He was this incredible human being and he was our brother. He was our best friend. So, continuing after Taylor was really complicated, not just for us, but for any drummer that was going to come in to like, you know, fill his shoes.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"d4ae3571-9c80-4a14-8c53-096612eaafd8-2\">&#8220;You know, we&#8217;re having this conversation on Taylor&#8217;s birthday. It&#8217;s Taylor&#8217;s birthday today. And so, we wake up in the morning and everybody just texts about how much we miss him and how the world&#8217;s not the same without him, but we still feel him very much. We always talk about him every fucking day. In everything we do we want to have that energy \u2013 we want to have that energy for Taylor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Grohl talks about how the follow-up to 2023&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/reviews\/foo-fighters-but-here-we-are-album-review\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/reviews\/foo-fighters-but-here-we-are-album-review\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/reviews\/foo-fighters-but-here-we-are-album-review\"><em>But Here We Are, <\/em><\/a>came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last year and a half, I was spending a lot of time in my studio just writing and experimenting and demoing things, and I&#8217;d come up with maybe like 30 or 40 different ideas. One night, I was listening to all these ideas, and just randomly, there were these 10 songs in a row in my playlist that were all just like noisy, loud bangers. Up-tempo, like back to the old days.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I was like, wait a minute, maybe this is the record. There was other stuff that sounded like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/every-led-zeppelin-album-ranked\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/every-led-zeppelin-album-ranked\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/every-led-zeppelin-album-ranked\">Led Zeppelin<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Presence,<\/em> and then there was stuff that sounded kind of mellow acoustic, but I was listening to this playlist and these 10 [songs] in a row, and I&#8217;m like, this is the record right here.&#8221;\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>The 10-track album, which will be released on April 24, was recorded at Dave Grohl&#8217;s 606 studio and co-produced by Foo Fighters and their in-house engineer Oliver Roman, formerly the frontman of LA rock band Jaw Talk. 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