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Taylor Hawkins’ son honours his father with cover of My Hero
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11 Jul 2022, 13:37
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Taylor Hawkins’ son, Shane Hawkins, has honoured his father with a cover of Foo Fighters song My Hero when he performed at a Laguna Beach block party last week.
On Monday 4 July, the 16-year-old joined the band The Alive during their performance from a roof in the Laguna Beach neighbourhood to play the infamous Foo Fighters track.
In video posted to TikTok, the caption reads: “When Taylor Hawkins’ son gets on the drums and dedicates the song ‘My Hero’ to his dad. The hawk would’ve been proud.”
The Alive also posted a video to Instagram to capture the moment and wrote: “Thanks to the Laguna Beach community, police (for not shutting us down), @spliffriff_ and the @marcusskenderian family. Special thanks to @shane_hawkins_22 for sitting in.”
The band had their own connection to the late drummer and have previously opened for Chevy Metal, Hawkins’ cover band, and for Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza in Chile just a week before he passed away.
Hawkins also grew up in the Laguna Beach area and many of his close friends and family attended the performance.
Shane himself is a drummer and previously played with his father on stage along with Dave Grohl when they covered the Rolling Stones track Miss You during the 2018 Chevy Metal show.
In March this year it was announced that Taylor had passed away at the age of 50 after he was found in his hotel room in Bogotá, Colombia only hours before the Foo Fighters were due to play a show as part of their South American tour.
The news rocked the music industry and many people, including Paul McCartney and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, paid their tributes to the drummer.
In September, the Foo Fighters will be putting on two tribute concerts in Los Angeles and London with the likes of Brian May, Roger Taylor of Queen, Chrissie Hyde, Josh Homme and Miley Cyrus all attending as guest performers.
Watch the video of Shane Hawkins performing My Hero here.
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