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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins

Foo Fighters, the band of former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, have finally found who will replace the late Taylor Hawkins, who was found dead in March 2022 in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia, on drums. 

Specifically, the new member of the band will be Josh Freese, free from commitments with Offspring and Danny Elfman and ready to make his mark with the new line-up.

The announcement came with a video during a live broadcast on Veeps Preparing Music for Concerts, where the band rehearses in their Californian studio 606 some songs they will take on tour.

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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters, the band of former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, have finally found who will replace the late Taylor Hawkins, who was found dead in March 2022 in his hotel room in Bogota, Colombia, on drums.
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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
Specifically, the new member of the band will be Josh Freese, free from commitments with Offspring and Danny Elfman and ready to prove himself with the new line-up.
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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins was one of the most important members of Foo Fighters, recruited by Grohl in 1997 to replace William Goldsmith on tour and in the studio. With the group, Hawkins would also take on lead vocals, in 1999 for a cover of Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar (included as the B-side to Learn to Fly), in 2005 on Cold Day in the Sun (from In Your Honor), in 2017 on Sunday Rain (from Concrete and Gold) and in 2021 on a cover of Andy Gibb's Shadow Dancing (from Hail Satin).
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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
John Freese can look back on a legendary and very long career. He has more than 2,500 studio-recorded tracks to his credit, and has collaborated with the likes of Avril Lavigne, Bruce Springsteen, Zucchero Fornaciari, Michael Bublé, Eros Ramazzotti, Anastacia, Miley Cyrus, Bryan Adams, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Cher, Kelly Clarkson, Joe Cocker, Guns'n'Roses and many others.
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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
The revelation came in a classic skit worthy of Foo Fighters. The five musicians were talking in the studio, and a series of great drummers, such as Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tommy Lee and Danny Carey of Tool, entered. At one point, the camera pans, framing Freese, who has always been seated at the drums, as he asks: "So, shall we play a couple of tunes?"
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Foo Fighters announce new drummer: here's who will replace Taylor Hawkins
During the live streaming the band played the first two singles from the new album But Here We Are, due out on 2 June, and presented an unreleased third track entitled Nothing at All
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