Taylor Hawkins Drumming Masterclass

Taylor Hawkins has achieved a rock superstar status through his drum kit as drummer for the Foo Fighters for over 20 years he strummed his way through everything from the Reading Festival to live lounges to sell out stadiums shows but what does it take to become a drummer what inspires someone to pick up a pair of drumsticks in the first place and just how important is the drummer to a band the band together in this program Taylor takes us on a guided tour of the drums talking through his childhood his influences others the Greek symbol grabber the sounds of his drum kits there's like a piece of metal where the drum head on it what it's like drumming with both Alanis Morissette's and Dave Grohl this is a BBC Radio 6 music drumming master class with silo Hawkins the man the legend the punk-rock cozy powell for our times this generations dashing version of stewart copeland the one and only hey little dude come on man how i thank you for a great well let's let's see over the course of this ale because coming up some drumming tips and insights into what makes what makes for a great drummer but first we should do some context first background okay where did you grow up from when did you first get into music how awkward I grew up in Laguna Beach California I had moved there from Texas when I was five and I had a neighbor named Kent cleaner who had a rickety rackety drum set and a couple of beat-up acoustic guitars why and I just wasn't really good at anything when I was 10 yeah I wasn't particularly good in school I wasn't good at sport as you would say I was okay baseball but yeah I didn't found something yet I remember was 10 years old it was a summer in 1982 he was a couple years older than me but he and his drum set and I kept like he was trying to learn how to play guitar and it seemed too much like work like homework alright you know and he said just sit on the drums just try it I want to show you a beat you going one two three four on the high hat and then you cross your hand over here and then on the third beat I want you to hit this thing called a snare drum one two three four one two three four and on the one the first beat I want you to put the kick drum on there so you go so basically I want you to go one two three for and I went okay probably wasn't it's probably little more like I don't know not quite there yet but but he really literally said you know you're a drummer really yeah and he's and he was actually a pretty decent drummer and he had this he had a two-by-four holding up his TomTom I remember that anyways he just said you're a drummer he said and like I can tell you can tell really quick if someone's a drummer there's some people that just they I guess they can't ever be and I just took to it immediately and so I mean that day there was like a lightning bolt shot into me and it was like and I'm like I'm a drummer that's what I'm going to do and that sort of became my armor and then I just fell in love with it and then at the same time around that time my friend down the street Lisa Burton her brother went off to the army cuz he got in trouble so the judge is back in the 80s would be like well you either you know either dude you know six months or you go to the army and that was insane he went in the army left all his records and there was this record with this monster holding these guys in his hand this like cartoon monster and it was Queen news of the world I just fell in love with that record what do you think it was about that record is it is it because of the drama of I think it's a cinematic mystic because the first music I really liked as a kid besides the pop music that was on the radio was like Star Wars soundtracks yeah and the Superman soundtrack you know and all the John Williams stuff and I was really like emotionally drawn to those soundtracks as a kid and even like the King Kong sounds like you know all these seventies sort of sound tracks and I think there was something in Queen that had that cinematic approach obviously it still does I mean they have the biggest movie last year but there was something about it that was really good for a ten-year-old and it was also you had a hard rot you had you know a ballad and you how a hard rock song and then you had a bluesy shuffle II song and they really I mean me and then I really loved the Beatles I was starting to love the Beatles as well and I could see the cross between them and the Beatles and you know you got a queen record and you got everything you know you got a lot of all these styles in one record and you know they just were rock band there was just a garage band essentially that was just really great and they had all these styles on there and and then I looked and I said well which one's the drummer and it was the guy with the blond hair and I was like ding oh my god well I loved him and then I find out he's the guy doing all that yeah crazy high notes something he's he's ran you know the these big beautiful drum sets and I would draw Roger Taylor's drum sets really yeah and it would draw the stages and then then I got their other records and I'd look at the inside of Queen jazz and they'd have all the drums all their drums everywhere and associate those pictures on those albums from that era when they used to show the studio I've seen ah she saw you I mean there were the drunkest well Maximus radios were as big as the one we're in today was no foreign for a 10 year old you know music porn that sounds world but it really it was I mean I did I would sit there and look at every single drum and you know as I fell in love with oh and then my brother handed me a copy of police Zenyatta Madonna this was 1982 but he handed me this album and he goes if you want to be good you have to play it like this guy and all of a sudden [Music] Stewart Copeland yeah so my two first major inspirations and I would say probably the two guys that shaped a lot of what I do when I play drums in a rock band is Roger Taylor and Stewart Copeland and the funny thing is they're so far away from each other home the spectrum of drummers Rogers got this great big fat you know that's a little bit of somebody to love [Music] I can't let it stay [Music] [Applause] [Music] but they were so different from each other I felt like it was a good like looking back on it it gave me a pretty wide berth as far as styles so did you get your own drum cape then when was it was the point where you could go first so the first kit I got was it was the ragtag deal you know nowadays like if a kid shows any interest in music it's like oh why do you drum set the one like that when we were kids you know it was like your dad like you want to play write music why no drums aren't allowed no so I like it was that thing you know you go down the street you heard that some guy down the street selling a bass drum you know and then another guy you know has a Japanese copy snare drum of Ludwig and your snare and then I really literally bought symbols out of Sears a magazine like you know you'd buy you know you probably like your laundry machines because cymbals and drums are really expensive and when you're ten years old if a pair of hi-hat cymbals is a suppressor belt a year's worth of pocket money but I mean yeah I mean it was just on I didn't even know so I like I put a ragtag drum set together and yeah that was my first drum set and my dad was nonplussed to say the least about any of it if he were so going back putting yourself back there now so after the first beat that you were taught if we were trying to help some of our listeners show you've got their own first kit together where would you go next then what was your next progression what were the first beats that you sort of learned or the first well it's funny I I just it was that beat and then Phil's drum fills connecting you to think and it's learning how to play a song such as you play along to a lot of songs yeah it's the first thing I did and I mean the right away I was playing along the at the Opera and queen the game and trying to play those in yattaman Dada and trying to play to the romantics what I like about you and haircut 100 and and I literally would just turn on the pop radio back then like a litter like you know a dial radio and we'll just play everything and it didn't matter what it was and you know I didn't know half of it was drum machines back in the 80s so I was trying to figure out shout you know by via Tears for Fears is [Music] [Music] drum machine don't go knock on door but I would play along and it's funny cuz my son he's 12 and he's good at drums but he doesn't really care that much about it it was fun he can play play all this these drum fills and he can play beats and stuff but I'm like if you want to learn how to play you have to play a song he's that learning the discipline of playing a drum within early do you think the job of the drum arrays well the first thing I wanted to do the second I got that crappy kick and snare and hat and Sears symbol was start a band right away like that was there was no question so you were recruiting your fellow neighbors hood friends and stuff and literally just but you know try to get that dude's mom to buy him a guitar amp and then you put the vocals in the guitar amp and the guitar and then a bass amp what's a bass amp I don't know well they're like five hundred dollars you're like I never gonna have that ever there's never but you'd put it together and eventually you through just you know Christmas and small amount of thievery and whichever however you had to get it you got the gear you needed to try and start your first really horrible band I'm gonna talk about your first bands horrible or not in a second this is a terrific excuse though to play coin on six music [Music] is pointing on six music eights the choice of I guess Tyler white boy that particular Queen song what was it boy well as their first single wasn't it keep yourself alive yep I think they may have done a set at BBC session in this very room for it or somewhere right down the hall which is amazing just to be here in these amazing place anyways and that was the first time the public heard Queen and it was all there I mean it was still at that and but I love the sound of that first Queen record cuz they were still sort of students they'll sort of kids they were still figuring it out then totally learned how to layer their vocals perfectly yeah it was a little ragtag he stood like they you know they got better like and they kind of grew in the public eye which was awesome but there's something about that first record that is just it's you can hear them trying to like figuring it out on tape which is a beautiful thing that's art you know and there's a drum solo in the middle of their first song I mean only Roger Taylor would get that done I'm gonna put a drum solo here it's staying I learned that drum solo I tried you know funny enough when kids asked me today I'm in a band and you know what should I do how do I do it what's the deal you know I know what you got to play as much as you can in front of people and get the stage time and you know write songs that's good be creative but learn a bunch of other people's songs too cuz for the most part no one's gonna want to hear the first group of songs that you start writing when you're 12 or 13 years old it's fine yeah right um that's cool do that but also learn a bunch of covers because I mean the Beatles were a cover band before they you know really I mean the stones were just a cover band and and that's where you learn the craft of what a song is and how you get inside a song so a you're getting stage time in front of people cuz you're actually playing songs that they might want to hear no matter how badly you're playing them at least they pretty sure that's a clash song or they're pretty sure that's [Laughter] a song or they're pretty sure that's that you know whatever and Van Halen was a cover band jumpin forwards something eventually I suppose your first brush with proper fame almost is touring with Alanis Morissette which you mentioned earlier well I actually the first proper Pro gig if you will like actually someone handed me a paycheck besides a few weddings and a few beer parties and stuff you know in Laguna Beach was a lady named sass Jordan and she was from Canada did his manager was like you know I have this girl I just signed a management deal with and she just finished a record and most of its kind of loops and stuff like that it was mid 90s her name is al anis Morissette I'll introduce you to her so I met her and she was quiet and sweet and stuff and uh then next thing a couple months later he's like hey we're auditioning drummers so I auditioned I got the tape and the first song that it was on the tape was you out and you oughta know [Music] [Music] we did you ought to know I want you to know you know and thankfully Thank You Alanis I love you so much she gave me the gig she wasn't scared about how loud she wouldn't know she I think it was cool at her her and her manager were like it should be more of a rock band and that I don't think the producer was too stoked actually on me because I think he was hoping it was gonna be some guy playing along the computers and being very pure to the record we just threw the record out the window with Atlantis and turned it into a live rock band and that's what the manager had in mind and that's what Alanis was down for she's like that that was the record turned and she kind of gave us free rein really actually just bless her heart and we really did completely destroy those songs but we were a good little we're a good band and that's where I met Dave I was just about a sigh so enter Dave Grohl well around that time on tall yeah so basically we're over here doing actually I'd met Dave once in LA and the Foo Fighters albumen just come out [Music] and I was so blown away and I've just the energy and and I loved his vocals I loved it it was like Steve Miller on steroids you're like you know at a punk rock club you know there was this breeziness about him and then in the easiness about the way he he was saying and then he would scream really good you know he had that good-good scream as well but but his verses were pretty and like I don't know there was almost a Beach Boys II thing or something I I couldn't put my finger on why I loved it but I just fell in love with that record and then I met Dave at some radio show somewhere like in LA if the first time and he was really nice to me and I was like wow he was nice to me I'm not cool he was nice to me and then I and then we started doing the same festivals over here and a lot in the UK and we just just fell in love and but I didn't think anything of it because they had a drummer and I got on a plane with Alanis after doing a couple shows with the Foo Fighters and she said what are you gonna do when Dave Grohl asks you to join the Foo Fighters she's literally said that and I went well that's never gonna happen and I would never leave you darling but but he said drummer quit not in you know or it couldn't handle the job and it's a tough job but you know I it ain't easy you know living in those shoes was the columns like done yes so basically what had happened was so he had made the first record all by himself yeah which is I mean he did like in five days of course and being told oh yeah yes five days yeah the master the master of who gives a crap but oh look at what I did he's brilliant and then the second record they really wanted to get it really they knew it was a make he knew it was a make or break record [Music] and the drummer just couldn't handle it Canela pressure wasn't used to the studio you know studios a whole different trip it's not there's one thing to play bash it out live no one's sitting there scrutinizing each I mean the snares got to land in the same spot every time so that it's a called a groove you know the time has to be good or you play with click tracks or you know we do sometimes in the studio sometimes we don't but the drummer just he just chunked it and then Dave you know famously went back and rerecord his drum tracks and he didn't fire him nobody even nobody everyone thinks how he fired he didn't fire him he said dude you're just not ready to make a record yet and this records make or break and I've made records and I know what I'm doing and you know learn how to record and he couldn't handle it so that's I stepped in and I called Dave myself and I said I'm your drummer sorry and he's like but you're in Atlantis he's the biggest thing in the world and I'm like well you know Alanis is a solo act and you're this this is a band and I love your band and I want to play hard rock and and I think Atlantis was going and you know in a different direction I had heard yeah you know and which was great and you know me and Lannister fine we're friends now and which is great we just you know the capacity enjoy [Applause] [Applause] and amazing literally 18 straight months with Atlantis and just just discovering the world with her and it was beautiful and she gave me a lot of leeway and I think her forever for it and she was a great she was a great leader and a great boss and you know I have a great leader a great boss again so you walk it so you would join the Foo Fighters you get and the first time I ever recorded what the Foo Fighters was it wasn't in this exact room it was in studio for I believe oh well might have aisle forward just right going wow really was the last time yeah doing what set of songs can you remember yeah it's funny it's a funny story actually so I joined the band and one of our first trips was coming to England the UK to do a tour and one of the first things we did was come to Maine avail to do maida vale sessions I wasn't John Peel I don't think but it was it was you know who what it was called it was a Maine avail session yeah and we did Baker Street oh it was as [Music] [Music] the public requiem killing James were actually up [Music] was my first recording well it's loads of great 70s records yeah I have grown up with yeah yeah I mean there's a lot in there lively and they're fun and I hear those recordings and that's me the first time I ever recorded with the Foo Fighters then we got to that third record which was just before we go on somehow Requiem close yeah yeah it's pretty much that the whole time yes good it's great though sorry you were saying so you thank you Mike that was kind of like my first time in the studio with the Foo Fighters but then we went back and we started doing there's nothing left to lose which has learned to fly on it [Music] and I got in a similar similar somewhat situation as the first drummer I was just green and I was having a really hard time learning how to play in the studio because it's just such a different thing and really learning how to focus in on cuz I mean you know if you're gonna play drums on a record for Dave Grohl it's got to be really like top-shelf I mean there's a certain pressure their inherent pressure and it's not from him actually to be honest I mean he definitely knows what he wants but I think he was still struggling with can I let another drummer play on my record at that time I think that was another thing for him and because we had such a bro ship if you will in such a great connection live that he had to sort of eventually give up the reins so that it could be a real band he's an amazing drummer and then we have two different styles and so he does his thing and I do my thing and he adds so much to the songs that it's like sometimes too much [Laughter] I can see like other drummers being in the band a feeling weird feeling intimidated and whatever but we do two totally different things and I think we have a mutual respect for each other and it's it's awesome I mean it works perfect you know and there's no you could you could find a better drummer there's no way so it works out this time and so I I don't play like Dave I played differently so the first album I played on I played half the drums on and Dave played the other half and I was just sort of I remember at one point I was just like Dave just you play drums on it I'll tour III won't quit like I'll stay I'll learn I have to learn how to do this just you you know you're Dave Grohl you're a master already he's smells like teen spirit I'm I'm a dingdong I've never done this before and I'm scared and I had red light fever which is something that people use as a terms like whenever the recording lights are on you kind of freeze up and I was doing that in it and he kind of held my hand through half of that record and he did the other half of the tracks there's one song on there called Aurora which is the first song that I ever recorded I felt like there's some good stuff I played a breakout and I play on m.i.a and a few of these other tracks on there mmm but there's a song called Aurora which is the last song on that record and that was like that was the first time I ever went okay I can fit in this band as the drummer right not just the live drummer but I can I can be me and still fulfill the role of being Dave Girls rhythm man you know because he writes in rhythms not only in melodies but in rhythms so I have to meet him there the next album one by one we eventually got to and then that was I played all the drums on that record and I played all the drums on all the records since on traded some belief that's me [Music] [Music] Oh can't be story of the Foo Fighters and second which is coming back to given that you're here we're trying to learn something at the jumps because I have to get inside the mindset of a drummer for a start talk is talk is through talking surround your kit oh you need all you really need at the beginning is a kick drum a snare drum a hi-hat which are these two symbols one's upside down and you control that one with your foot as you do the kick drum and then you have a TomTom here in the front and if you're lucky you have a floor tom and if you're lucky you have a crash cymbal and if you're even luckier you have a ride cymbal and really if you have that you could pretty much play any song yeah every all the other stuff the roto Tom's and the timpani drum [Music] [Applause] and Brandt the other picks PMC's okay these are roto Tom's over here do not even a drum really they're just like a piece of metal with a drum head on it you can tune them with your hand and you know I must have been a seven he's like what is this and I love him Roger Taylor always had him on it next to his floor toms so he'd always do these great this is color you know I I'm drawn to with drummers bells and cowbells and timpani drums China symbols and stuff [Applause] [Music] anything three can surprise a listener I always loved that about Roger Taylor and I always loved that about Stewart Copeland yes Roger Taylor just throw a little cowbell thing in there and use leg line he's got a cowboy I need a cowboy he's got a cowboy [Music] we [Music] did you mention the difference between in a Roger and Stewart how different the rest of the style cent can you tell a van Halen from a Phil Collins oh yeah I mean there are so different do you want to give us a bit I think that's what I like about what's different or any way to play them yeah you can come on if we can't get Tyler to do Phil Collins up going over was that I know there's something going on Freda that's fell cars yeah he would have big concert Tom's over here Van Halen uh I wish I had double bass I was like I play double bass but van it thing about Alex Van Halen is he just couldn't not swing [Music] get batter what he was just always you know even Jamie's crime love Alex Van Halen al is such I've done enough Roger Taylor I'm sure Oh Julius another Roger was a great cymbal grabber he was so good at grabbing us he always looked great and sounded great in saying he was just he's the man he's a badass [Applause] [Music] very mullet [Music] [Music] I played that last night in Dublin in the middle of my drum solo I was pandering a bit sorry like plates of the crown yeah I was playing in the crowd there's no question larry was there it was like because you two were I thought you two was really they were such an inventive band and they're really important to me when I like Larry just had a very he really had a creative style and here's the thing back then before they were fixing everything with computers and putting you know unrealistic snare samples on everything and you really could hear a style of a drummer back in the day you know I'm sure there will be some sort of garage revival or some rock things like you know that's what I liked about that's what I loved about Jack White when the White Stripes came out everyone was like have you ever that girl play drums I'm like I love the way she plays drums it's so unique it's been found down and then when she kicks into the beat [Music] the way she plays is literally just you know I can't do it that's how unique [Music] drummers are a separate species I think a lot of people say this would you agree yeah III know you mean it doesn't matter whether they're Keith Moon or you know even Dave Grohl but they're a separate or yourself there are separate sort of species what sort of temperament is a good temperament for a drummer what you need it's so it's so hard to say I mean I guess I guess you need to have energy yeah definitely in our freakin band that's for sure I mean you gotta be you gotta be fit you got to be fit [Music] you know okay in your 20s you may be you know live fast and you know do all that guy said if you want to play at drums well once you start getting under your late 40s or even you know beyond health becomes an issue it really does I mean you can't you can't be out all night and then go play a three-hour foo fighters set you just can't do it and mentally as well what what do you think is you you've gotta hold the band together ah there's no computers up on stage let's see there's so many bands now that you know they get up on stage and the drummer puts his in ears in and they press a button and it goes what do wait for it and then he plays along to a click track while all this stuff is coming out of speakers that are on some computer behind the stage that's fine if that's what you want to do that's not what we do we don't do that at all so the tempo of learn to fly is gonna be slightly different every night depending on how scared or excited or you know hung or not on a jet-lagged [Applause] that's why we go to like X now let's follow a tour it is always different every night and because it's not predictable and you don't go to a gig to hear the record that's why I really truly think I mean you know Dave said last night to the crowd of however many people which was a lot of people which you're so blessed to have these people come to our show still can't believe that we play stadiums now and I mean it didn't start out like that and when I joined the band certainly wasn't that way we're playing clubs and opening slots for prodigy and in the Red Hot Chili Peppers yeah awful ability writing halfway up the billet reading and we just kept at it and people kept telling us rock and roll is dead I mean they kept telling us I remember 99 doing the promotion tour for for nothing left to lose German why do you play a rock and on his dead they're like well it ain't dead at our house man [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] but as you to your question yeah when I walk up on stage at one of those places I have major butterflies I'm scared crapless every time if there's 30,000 people that paid good money social responses your responsibility for me to hold the band together and sometimes if David doesn't want to rehearse I'm like I will rehearse without you we weren't here to make you look good and I'm a drummer whose job besides showing off sticks around and doing drum solos and being a show-off which I am a lot of the time is to lay down some version of a solid foundation for the band to play to so that's the perfect drummer then there's the sort of the trying to work out why doesn't presents presents because even Nick Mason presents some responsibility a bit a bit of showbiz showbiz but if you watch Nick Mason from Pink Floyd obviously on you know the life of Pompeii [Music] he still has a great dramatic missed in his drumming like Roger still his he still hasn't about kind of Saint Nick Mason's a showy drummer but he is in a way and he's got a presence and it's a presence [Music] did you practice to practice a lot when you were you know given so you're about two three years into playing drums what sort of things would you practice at home I was I didn't practice properly I did I played along to the radio or I played along to records what were you doing around that don't you remember what was I playing along to yeah yeah I remember playing along to unforgettable fire by u2 and and all and and October and I remember plundering to play like some of the crazy police stuff that I remember trying to play murder by numbers and I just couldn't figure it out and then there was like stuff on the radio like like Rosanna by Toto which basically he was doing fool in the rain double time which is all these grace notes and all this crazy stuff [Music] I was had no idea how he was doing it and I wasn't interested in some dude coming over for 50 bucks to try and show me how and they didn't have YouTube back then so I couldn't like look it up on YouTube how do you play the shuffle tell Rosana or fool in the rain I still can't play that so slow that's a tough one that's a tough one that's when you know bottom is just the greasiest [Music] you mentioned writing obviously within the group now you contribute to the writing process is is there a particular favorite Foo Fighters song that you've been involved with from you know base level upwards I would say the first song that I'd like actively like me and Dave sat down and worked out because there's a lot of stages to the way the Foo Fighters write and the home studios are getting so good Dave's really good at you know just popping in with demos that are you have to work really hard to beat but he's always constantly evolving the songs so he brings a demo in and then we learned like her we learned it like that and then we start ripping it apart and and sort of deconstructing it and then reconstructing it back to and then the producer comes in like butch vig or or Gregg who did the last record and and then they go well you know maybe he should add do two courses there and you know maybe that bridge isn't quite working or whatever so there's a lot there's a lot of layers as to way things are written but the song that the first song and I have felt like a real part of the process was all my life [Music] [Music] [Music] the lady to a record which is coming which you know you get the money except what is cold yeah get the money yeah there's a track on the album called get the money and it's actually I to do it singing me and Chrissie Hynde from their protest see ya and Joe Walsh was playing guitar no couple do adds a couple vocal duets with ladies actually and dave sings one with me on there as well and but a couple ladies I did actually a really this super psychedelic stoner II trippy song called see you in Hell which this girl lives in my neighborhood and our kids went to my kids school and I'm and it was LeAnn Rimes remember you know it sadly an rhyme yes she's still around she so the other thing and she's this great Patsy Cline ish country singer and I saw her at this some skill a school function for our kids and I'm like will you come sing on my record and she's like sure where I'm like in my neighbor ID I have a studio in my house and she came over and I played her this really tripped out sort of Soundgarden meets Pink Floyd meets you know Sabbath tune and she's like you want me to sing on this one like yeah just like alright let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music] now I'm very lucky to do this but as you're a cheater and you're here and I think we've got a few minutes even given that I have no rhythm can you teach me how to hold a bleep if I come over there I can okay Steve this is what I used to do with girls in high school give them drum lessons ah not gonna be quite the same with you Steve sorry right alright put that one where's that one under there I want you to count to four hitting that in the hi-hat one two three four one two three four now put your foot on that pedal over there the kick drum pedal there you go come on give it a good proper kick there you go there you go now on the third beat you're counting to four still this this little bugger you hit that it's called a snare drum man chiming no one on the kick drum start out with just high up by itself one two three four one two three four [Music] Steve guess what the beauty of today is modern recording that would have been enough we'll put it together for you you'll love it it was the shortest recording career known to man it's been the best piece of tutoring thank you very much this oddly anyone down here people behind the cameras and a couple of producers but could you all stop what you're doing please and give a massive round of applause and a thank you to Taylor Hawkins those two gentlemen bless you it's been an absolute pleasure

Channel: BBC Radio 6 Music

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Rating: 4.8806005 out of 5

Keywords: BBC, Music, Taylor Hawkins, Foo fighers, Alanis Morissette, all my life, 6 music, steve lamacq, Drums, drumming, drum tutorial, masterclass, drummer, roger taylor, u2, queen, dave grohl, interview, tears for fears, The police, All my life, Reading festival, Leeds, Festival

Id: PwjEc8S0PRo

Length: 48min 20sec (2900 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019

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[u/JardinSurLeToit]

He's adorable and this is a valuable and powerful statement of his authentic self. His success is richly deserved.

[u/cfowen]

Unknowingly met him at a titty bar in NOLA several years ago. I had no idea who he was and he was sitting next to me at the bar. Couldn’t have been nicer or more genuine. Never told me who he was and I only found out after my friends came up to me with the “Do you know who you’ve been talking to for the last hour?!?!”

[u/bueno_bravo]

Just watched this the other day, popped up in my recommendations. Such a fantastic watch.

[u/MadeMeChortle]

His band was scheduled at a small local fair near me and the Foo Fighters ended up coming to play instead. What a legend

[u/Elfman72]

Check out his solo stuff too - Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders

[u/Momjeans77]

Thanks for posting this. It made a great start to my weekend.

[u/ElPapaDiablo]

6 music is permanently on my house. If anyone doesn’t listen to it then give it a try.

[u/ZachAttcak]

I didn’t think I’d watch the whole thing but I’m glad I did.

[u/ilikesidehugs]

Was not expecting to take time today to watch a short doc - so glad I did. Thanks for posting