LaunchDaily
11/18/2009
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins might be collaborating with Queen drummer Roger Taylor if Taylor gets his wish. Taylor called Hawkins "one of my best blood brothers," telling BBC 6 Music, "I've been thinking about doing a tour next year -- a very quick tour -- with Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters . . . So we might do that. That sounds like fun." Hawkins and Taylor, along with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, played an all-star drum jam together at Live Earth in 2007, while Hawkins has also played on Queen guitarist Brian May's solo track "Cyborg" and also sat behind the kit at the 2006 VH1 Rock Honors for Queen's "We Will Rock You."
Hawkins cites Taylor as a huge influence on his own drumming, and told us a while back that Queen has influenced Foo Fighters in several ways: "Us as a band, I would probably say our live shows have just, like, tried to -- you've got to play these huge places, and you kind of want to try and make a big place seem like a club, you know, that's the idea. And so I think as a band, it was probably their live performances. But musically, Queen were so musically diverse, you know, and I think that we, we don't want every song to sound the same on every album."
Taylor is currently promoting a new solo single called "The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)," while Hawkins is putting the finishing touches on a second album from his side band, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders.
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