Taylor Hawkins: A wild light blinding bright

Manchester, November 16, 2002. Cave In are on the first date of a UK arena tour with Foo Fighters. Nerves, as you can imagine, are at an all-time high. Drummer John-Robert Conners (known as J.R.) walks into the venue then known as the Manchester Evening News Arena and is greeted by the sound of someone thundering away behind a kit as if their life depended on it. “I sneaked up on the side of the stage like a little kid and, sure enough, Taylor was laying down a sick beat,” recalls J.R. now. ​“He finished playing while we were loading our gear in and we crossed paths backstage. I complimented him on the beat I’d heard him playing and he told me it was something he was trying to learn, part of a song from the Genesis album, [1974’s] The Lamb Lies Down On Br...

Foo Fighters

1.This Is a Call 2.I'll Stick Around 3.Big Me 4.Alone + Easy Target 5.Good Grief 6.Floaty 7.Weenie Beenie 8.Oh, George 9.For All the Cows 10.X-Static 11.Wattershed 12.Exhausted

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