Honoring his dad. Shane Hawkins carried out “My Hero” alongside Foo Fighters to honor his late father, Taylor Hawkins.
The 16-year-old joined his dad’s bandmates for the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance on Saturday, September 3, at Wembley Stadium in London. Dave Grohl launched him towards the top of the evening as one in every of many visitor drummers filling in for the musician, who died in March at age 50 in Bogotá, Colombia.
“We’ve got yet one more drummer that’s going to return up and play with us tonight. Let me let you know, I don’t assume I’ve ever seen anybody hit the drums as arduous as this particular person,” Grohl, 53, instructed the packed stadium through the present, which was broadcast on Paramount+. “However past that, he’s a member of our household, and he must be right here tonight with all of us. I feel it is smart that he’s going to return up and play with us tonight. Women and gents, would you please welcome, Mr. Shane Hawkins on the drums.”
The teenager kicked off the tune, which was the band’s 1997 hit “My Hero.”
Taylor shared son Shane (born Oliver Shane Hawkins) in addition to daughters Annabelle and Everleigh with spouse Alison Hawkins.
Numerous drummers stepped in for the late musician throughout Foo Fighters’ songs. Travis Barker performed throughout “Monkey Wrench” and “The Pretender. Rufus Taylor (son of Queen’s Roger Taylor) was behind the equipment for “These Days,” and viral 12-year-old drummer Nandi Bushnell jammed with the band for “Study to Fly.”
Earlier within the evening, Dave Chappelle took the stage to recount internet hosting Saturday Evening Reside in November 2020, when Hawkins and the band served as musical friends. He was later invited to their present at Madison Sq. Backyard.
“After the present I went backstage and frolicked with the Foo Fighters, and I met a child who should have been 12 or 13 years previous,” Chappelle, 49, defined. He met Shane and requested if he was a skater.
“He stated, ‘I don’t skateboard cos I don’t wanna damage my arms’,” the Washington, D.C. native stated. “I stated, ‘What the f–ok form of reply’s this? A easy sure or no would have sufficed.’ The child stated, ‘I wanna be a drummer, like my father.’”
It was a revelatory expertise for the comedian. He continued: “In that room in Madison Sq. Backyard, regardless that I had met the Foo Fighters many nights, I felt like I met them for the primary time. I’ve seen Taylor be a rock star many nights nevertheless it was my first time seeing him be a dad, and what a cool f–king dad. It was the primary time that Dave Grohl and I ever even talked about the title Kurt Cobain. It was the primary time we ever even talked about our love of jazz and go-go music and Taylor’s son Shane was soaking all of it in. He sat there, he requested one of the best questions – not about fame, at all times about artwork.”
Taylor Hawkins with an inset of his son Oliver Shane Hawkins. Shutterstock; Courtesy of Shane Hawkins/Instagram
Chappelle went with the band and Shane to New York Metropolis’s famed jazz membership The Blue Be aware and watched musician Robert Glasper carry out. “I listened to Taylor and his son the entire present discuss concerning the drummer,” he recalled. “I bear in mind Shane, Taylor’s son, say to his father as he was listening, ‘Dad you’ll be able to’t try this s–t.’ I’d by no means heard somebody discuss to a rock star that manner. And Taylor Hawkins, as humble as is, stated, ‘Son, these are actual musicians.’”
The comic concluded: “Taylor Hawkins is a legend of a person, he’s a legend of a musician and he’s a legend of a father and Shane, I’m very proud ’trigger I noticed you play in your father.”
Chappelle was removed from the one one singing Shane’s praises. Barker, 46, shared clips from the tribute through his Instagram story on Sunday night. “Oh, my God,” he says in a video taken from backstage whereas Shane took the stage.
Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan wrote through Instagram, “Shane….you floored us all at yesterday’s present. We watched from right here in Brazil…F#CK dude! Shredded it!”
Questlove posted a clip on social media, captioned, “Wow Man. Nice Job Shane.”
“That is so so lovely,” Sophia Bush wrote through her Instagram Story. “Completely beautiful.”
“So unbelievable,” Jxdn (born Jaden Hossler) commented through MTV’s Instagram submit.
John Legend and Promoting Sundown‘s Chrishell Stause each commented on completely different posts with a number of crying emojis. Tears have been abound. “And cue the weeping at 6 am,” Mandy Moore shared through her Instagram Story on Sunday.
The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance is on the market to observe on Paramount+ in its entirety, coming in at simply over six hours lengthy. There can be a second tribute present in Los Angeles on September 27.
Ticket and merchandise gross sales will profit Music Help and MusiCares. Each charities have been chosen by the Hawkins household.
