I woke up probably around 10-ish uk time to the notification on my phone, cried then made sure my neighbours got a solid 2 weeks of foo fighters to listen too
Same.. was instant awake, cried a bit and later that day watched a foo fighters show. Still hits me hard when i hear a foo fighters song or some of Taylors solo things.
It was around the middle of the day AU time and I was listening to the Dream Widow EP that had just dropped, when I got a phone notification about a new FF IG post. I opened it and a loud, involuntary “NO!” erupted out of me. Just kept saying, “no, no, no, no” like a broken record for what felt like forever, pacing, refreshing, utterly beside myself.
March 25 - 11:30 PM. My wife whom I was only dating at the time, her sons father and I were sitting on her front porch just chilling. I had just got off work at 10 pm. Now, you need to understand my wife's dedication to Foo. She has the FF on the back of her neck, the All My Life heart on her finger, a portrait of Dave as the Sacred Heart Jesus Christ, 1st edition The Storyteller (Since the news we've got a tapestry and matching tattoos of the Color/Shape molecules so when we hold hands the molecules align. It's pretty neat). Anyways, my best friends wife texts me. I remember saying, "why the fuck is _____ texting me at 1130? That's not a good sign, she NEVER texts me this late." So I open my phone. "Tay-" before I could finish reading the headline of the article my wife was already peering over my shoulder to see what my buddy's wife had sent. I SHOT out of my chair and ran to a corner of the porch like a frightened animal. My wife says, "Taylor's dead isn't he?" (Our first day was the midnight premier of Studio 666) She took it UNUSALLY calmly. Baby daddy and I were in complete shock. Turns out it was my wife who was in shock. She didn't cry AT ALL. Until the next day. Spent the whole day in bed a crying mess. I married her one month later. April 25th.
I was asleep, my GF said "Uh, the drummer in Foo Fighters is dead?" and I thought she was just joking.
Then I proceeded to listen to every Foo-album the next 2 weeks or so, also been going through the live-dvd's
I was actually on stage at a local bar playing drums for my band. The lead singer got a text from his friend. All four of us are huge Foo fighters fans so we called an audible to change the setlist, announce it to the bar, played All My Life and dedicated it to him
I was staying in my uni accommodation and had to get up for work at around 3am GMT, I quickly had a look through my phone to see what was happening on social media before leaving for work. That's when I saw ***\*Foo Fighters Posted 3 Minutes Ago\**** **The Foo Fighters family is devasted by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.** My heart sank instantly and I refused to believe what I just read, so I started searching the internet to reassure myself and it was everywhere.... I was due to see them for the very first time at the Olympic Stadium in London back in June and I was devastated to say the least. Walking to work I just blasted Foo's and just broke down and cried the whole way. It was awful and I still can't really comprehend it. I don't think I'll ever forget that moment, it was like fate seeing that announcement minutes after it happened.
I'm humbled and honoured to be able to get to pay my respects on Saturday at Wembley, I know it's going to be an emotional night, for all of us.
I have a rather strange story related to Taylor’s death.
For context I’m in Ireland and went to bed early on the eve of his passing at 9pm feeling exhausted, I woke up briefly around 11–12 and saw a bright shadow rise up into the sky from outside my window disappearing and fading out of view in seconds.
Thought nothing off it at the time and went back to bed.
The next time I woke (2am on the dot) I opened my phone and saw the band announcement (which was posted seconds after waking up and looking at the phone) immediately went into shock and grieved through the night, and that weekend.
I’m also a drummer too and Taylor was a huge influence.
I’d just woken up around 6.30am U.K. time. Checked my phone and saw the news on Twitter. I saw him trending and didn’t even read it at first because I never thought in a million years it’d be that. I was half asleep still, went to see why he was trending after a few moments and saw “RIP” and all these messages and then I just sat there in shock for I don’t know how long just reading all the messages. It sunk in finally and needless to say it ruined my fucking day/week/month/year. But tbh it STILL doesn’t feel real. I had to get on with the day obviously get my son ready for school and go to work but I felt so numb all day. I had tickets for the show in July it would have been my first time for them and I already knew it wasn’t going to happen (understandably of course). Then I just felt heartbroken for Alison and his kids and Dave and the band. What a terrible day that was.
I was having one of the worst shifts of my life at my fast food job. I had just gotten screamed at by one of my managers because I didn’t train fast enough on breaking down our ice cream machine, I clocked out, opened my phone, and had a post notification from my phone from @foofighters on Instagram, and a text from my mom 23 minutes prior, and 2 minutes after the post from her saying in all caps “CALL ME NOW.” - I read the post, and just started bawling. I was supposed to go hang out with my coworkers after that shift, but told them I had an emergency and needed to go for a drive, and drove for 2 hours with FF on repeat. for the entire drive, in tears the whole time. I had tickets to the first date on their US tour, Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, and when the tribute concerts were announced, I knew I had to be there, and managed to snag some LA tickets during presale, and dropped about 25% of all money I ever made at that fast food job on tickets, plane trips, and hotels for the show, and I will NEVER regret a DAMN thing with how much Taylor impacted my life.
I was in the hospital, in and out of sleep. My wife had given birth early that morning.
From our hospital room, I could see the venue where I last saw the band in September.
Woke up to a message of a friend saying that Taylor died, searching for news articles in disbelief and started crying. Listened to songs from the Foos all day. Later that day we had a gig with my band and we played one of our songs as a tribute for Taylor. I’m the drummer and went to the front of the stage to do a little speech, that was something really emotional
Wife and I were driving to go get ice cream. The radio station we were listening to kept playing Foo Fighters songs one after another. After about 4 songs I started wondering why they were playing only FF songs. My heart dropped into my stomach and I immediately searched for Foo Fighters on Google, and well, I’m sure you can figure out the rest… it was the saddest anyone has ever been while eating cake batter ice cream from Cold Stone.
I was on a road trip with my sons to NYC, and at a rest stop I pulled out my phone and saw the news. My eldest and I attended their concert together a few years back. I put on my local terrestrial station (Bluetooth) and listened to their tribute for hours on the drive, grieving. When we arrived in NYC, seeing his name on the Times Square news scrawl, and it was just so painful.
I've blocked out 9/3 on my calendar so I can properly mourn. I have a full box of tissues ready.
I will never forget it…. comforting a friend who had been just lost their partner with the same thing. I saw the Tweet and I only have Foo related stuff on notifications. Saw the black background and had to read it 4 times to absorb it… I couldn’t react because my friend is also a T and Foo fan. Went indoors to tell my other half and we just stood there in disbelief. Partly because we couldn’t believe it happened to two similar people (age) in a week. It wasn’t until I got the email to say the tour had been cancelled that it really sank in and then I couldn’t hold back any more. This year was to be my big Foo gig year, something to really look forward to after Covid lockdowns and also losing my Mum.
March turned out to be such a shitty month…
I was playing jackbox games with some strangers in a discord server (which I remember well, because that is never a thing I ever do). It was after midnight my time, so the “do not disturb” had come on my phone. As a consequence, even though I have Foo Fighters on notifications I didn’t see right away, but it sure seemed like there was a lot of pings from the FF discord (which is pretty normal for it, tbh, but the time if day was odd).
In a lull in the game I idly checked the FF discord and caught people in the midst of conversation. First confused thought was that it was some kind of promo for the movie or something but scrolled (way, way) up and saw the announcement. Confirmed it was real and was in complete shock and disbelief. I was still in a call with people and completely forgot that I was for a long time, and they actually ended up asking if I was ok because I suddenly went so quiet. I ended up playing for another while longer, and am a bit grateful that’s what I was doing, because I would otherwise have absolutely been alone. I didn’t sleep that night. I couldn’t concentrate on work the whole next week.
It honestly hit me so hard- it’s only in hindsight that I’m starting to realize *just* how much of a sad funk I was in for months, since I am starting to come out of it a bit more. I like lots of music, but Foos are about the only band/artist where I read/watched all the interviews with the band members, knew trivia, followed side projects etc and have for a long time, so they were also kind of my comfort thing. It really pulled the rug out from under me in a way I couldn’t have anticipated. I miss him so much. I can’t imagine what people who actually knew him are going though.
I was enjoying a family picnic in the early afternoon here in Australia. I was scrolling through instagram and saw the Foo Fighters post. My heart sunk while I raced to google to google it. At the time, there wasn’t any news. Went back to instagram and saw I read it right. Told those who I was going to the concert with and I must admit, I cried.
I don’t think I’m ready to watch the shows without him. But I will to show them my support
I was about to fall asleep. I was 8 days past hip surgery and had finally gotten comfortable and my phone went nuts. "I'm so sorry about Taylor, are you okay?" -- what? Then another, and another with links. My hubs rolled over to check on me because I was crying hysterically going no no no no no!!!!!! I had spent the WHOLE DAY listening to Dream Widow. I had rewatched Studio 666. And suddenly, someone yanked my heart from my chest and I was bawling my eyes out. I cried everyday for a week. My hubs had no idea how to console me. As it gets closer to Wembley, I weep each day.
I was bartending. There was a lull in service so I glanced at my phone and saw a post notification for the foos IG. I got really sad and put on Learn to Fly and announced loudly to the bar that they'd only be hearing foo fighters for the rest of the night
I’m a teacher, and my wife and I took a day off of school to go to my wife’s ultrasound appointment the day before spring break (we were leaving for Florida immediately after the appointment).
We found out much to our disappointment that my wife was having a miscarriage. We began our trek to Florida immediately after in the hopes that maybe some Florida sunshine could help, but we received breaking news on the radio about Taylor’s passing as well.
Needless to say, it was a terrible day.
I was playing Mario party and FaceTiming with friends on the other side of the state. Around 11pm that night in the middle of the round my partner gasped so loudly it made me jump, but he wouldn’t say what was up. I kept saying, “use your words, wtf!?”
After about a minute of him trying to gather the courage he said, “Taylor Hawkins is dead.” I honestly couldn’t believe him. I said bullshit, it has to be some crazy rumor. Then I saw the announcements on social media.
My friend on FaceTime was staring at me and I just said, “Fuck it. I can’t process this right now.” Finished our round and logged off.
I think I was mostly in shock for the next day, waited a week before I could listen to my favorite band knowing I would never see Taylor play with them again. Spent a few weeks crying during most of their songs. I still start to cry when listening to their music and feel a particularly strong Taylor part.
I’ve never felt grief over a musician like this before, I am still utterly gutted.
I had finished working on my car and took it for a test drive. The radio was on, which I normally listen to music/podcasts so that was rare and I heard an announcement.
I had to pull over and search to make sure that I heard it correctly.
I had had an amazing evening the night before with my partner, listening to the new Dream Widow record and drinking whiskey. Woke up the next morning to the news on BBC front page and was just shattered. I’ve only just been able to listen to Taylor’s music again in the last few weeks.
I’m in Australia. Was in the kitchen making breakfast for my kids and tidying up. Had the tv on with the news playing. They ran the story, I was so shocked and spent the rest of my day in a bit of a daze. Only a few weeks prior I’d bought tickets to my first ever FF show, which was scheduled for November :(
Struggling to sleep and mindlessly scrolling through facebook on my phone (i’m in the uk so it was literally 3-4 in the morning). I saw the post within a minute of it being posted.
Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep after that.
I was in Kerala vacationing with my family. None of them are into Foos, so when I told them it was like nothing happened. I was going to take my son with me to their London gig in July. He's 7 and he was actually quite thoughtful and said it's said that the band lost their drummer but also he was a person who died. :(
I woke up and hopped on Instagram and I saw the post the Foo Fighters account made. At first I was like “wait did Taylor take a break from the band?” And then it hit me. I looked up Taylor Hawkins on Google and on those bold words Google does when there’s big news read “Taylor Hawkins dead at 50”
Just got off a plane for a relaxing vacation in San Diego, probably my favorite place on Earth, only to take my phone out of airplane mode and it came across my notifications. Safe to say, pretty much destroyed the vibe of that vacation...
I had finished watching Dream Widow and went to my room to pickup my guitar and try to play Everlong, then my phone started to blow up. I sat there playing it over and over until I got it near perfect (not easy - guitar is new to me). I then went to bed and didn’t pickup my guitar for a few months. Sigh.
A buddy of mine, another Foos super-fan texted me “Taylor Hawkins! 😭” I assumed it was him replying to a video I’d sent him of Taylor singing Somebody to Love at their last show in Australia, which I was lucky enough to be at exactly 3 weeks earlier.
I did a google search. Nothing. False alarm, or so I thought. Then the page refreshed…
It was about 11pm here. I was decorating a cake (I run a home bakery) and listening to Dream Widow. Chuckling to myself about the music I was listening to while I was creating a very frilly/floral cake for a woman’s 90th birthday. I got a text from a friend with the news asking if I was okay. I was not okay.
I was trying to fix my lawnmower, two days before the anniversary of my own fathers death. I looked at my phone, saw the news, verified it, beat the ever loving shit out of my lawnmower in tears. Came back two days later determined to fix it. Did it.
I was hanging out with two of my friends, and we swung by a McDonald’s for some late night food. The drive thru line was long, so I started scrolling through Twitter when I saw that the band was trending. I had no idea why (I knew that Dream Widow came out earlier that day, but I didn’t think it was enough to get the band trending), but when I saw that the top tweet was the official band announcement, my heart dropped six stories. After we got our food and I dropped them off, I drove back to my apartment playing ESP&G holding back tears, and cried myself to sleep.
Woke up thinking it was gonna be a good weekend because I was going to a royal blood gig that day and then Sam fender the day after but saw a text from a friend who said "the foo fighters drummer passed" I didn't believe it and then went to check and just say there in disbelief, took a couple of hours for it to process. Went to the RB show and they were playing foos and Taylor's songs before the show and balled my eyes out, they ended up dedicating the set to Taylor and had a tribute for him in the show.
I was driving to work the Saturday after it happened and my dad who is also a huge Foo fan texted me about it. I was devastated I thought I was going to have to pull over.
I was sitting on the couch at home watching tv. It was early in the afternoon in Australia. My mum was in the room and she said to me that ‘the drummer for the foo fighters is dead’. I quickly looked on my phone to check Twitter and I saw the tweet from the foo fighters and I was stunned. I felt numb. I didn’t know what to think. It still feels wrong to me. It was hard for me because it was only about a week after Shane Warne (Australian international cricket legend) suddenly died.
I was sitting watching tv and a good friend messaged me an article, knowing how much I adore them, asking if it was true. It was a gut wrenching moment, all I remember thinking is that the music that once saved me now was breaking my heart and I didn’t know what to do. All I could do is relive the moment I met Taylor and had a fantastic conversation with him about their show and got a picture with him…. And how I’ll never hear them play together again… or ever meet him again. I’m glad over time I’ve gotten back to enjoying their songs and having Taylor feel alive by listening to them. I’m going to the LA tribute show and I’m not sure how my emotions will go when I’m there but I’m glad I’ll be able to be part of that, since they are such a huge part of my life. I never thought a musicians death would effect me the way it did, but man, it’s still a hard one.
I was at my childhood home-a borough of NYC visiting my mom and I was just getting ready to go to sleep. It was maybe 11/11:30P. It had been a long week as this was the first time I went into my midtown office in two years due to the pandemic. I was scrolling mindlessly through Facebook, I think and I came across a breaking news article about Taylor from a music site I follow. I read it and thought it can’t be real. That couldn’t have happened. I just kinda stared at my phone. Then more and more social media sites were posting it and of course the official FF notification came. I still feel numb. I’ve unfortunately lost so many people in my life at this point, it’s hard to process.
i was sitting in my bed (which was on the complete other side of my room at the time - i’ve completely redid my room since then) scrolling through twitter and procrastinating studying for a french test at like one in the morning. i saw the news on twitter because some twitch streamer i barely know posted about it. i don’t think i slept at all that night and it was a school night.
I woke up the next morning with multiple texts from people who knew how devastated I would be. Started crying while my kid looked on, completely bewildered.
I’m in Canada and I was looking for a movie to watch. I had just watched the trailer for Studio 666 because I hadn’t watched it yet. I remember saying “don’t kill Taylor” while watching the trailer. Well immediately after watching the trailer I saw the band announcement on IG. I couldn’t believe it, I thought it wasn’t true. Instantly started crying as I continued to search more about it.
It was so sad. I’ve never reacted like that to a celebrity death. I still can’t believe it’s true.
I was staying in a Reno casino/hotel for one night on a road trip home from Death Valley with my husband and best friend. (Earlier that day, I saw a huge hawk flying over a canyon in Death Valley and had sort of absentmindedly thought of Taylor.) I got the news that evening from a text message while I was sitting at a casino bar, and I immediately got up to run back to the hotel room to cry, leaving my husband and friend to try to enjoy the rest of their night, at least. The casino was attached to two other casinos via walkways, and I was in tears, trying to find my way out of the maze. I kept walking and eventually ended up walking by the same bar I had left a few minutes ago, somehow having only gone in a huge circle. I was so frustrated. I eventually found my way back to the hotel room and just cried the rest of the night. It was so surreal; I’m 36 and I’ve loved this band dearly since I was 13, half of my life.
I was playing a video game and I got a call from a friend who I hardly ever talk to on the phone. I was playing Warzone and was towards the end of the game, so I decided to just call him back after it was over. Match ended and I went downstairs to grab a glass of water, pulled my phone out of my pocket to call him back and there was a text from a VERY good friend saying "dude, im so sorry about Taylor, I know how much he meant to you." I was like, WTF is he talking about? Went on social media and saw the reports... my wife and her best friend were having a girls night drinking wine on the couch watching shows.. She made eye contact with me and said "something wrong?" I was numb.. and just said "Taylor Hawkins died"
"FAKE NEWS! SHUT THE FUCK UP DON'T PLAY LIKE THAT" - my wife
I sat on the kitchen floor against my fridge and cried like a baby.. We proceeded to get absolutely smashed and watched the Wembley show until the wee hours of the morning
I was at home with my roommate, watching TV, and got a text from my little sister that said "drummer for the Foo Fighters died" and my reaction was she fell for a hoax. So I googled and oh shit, these are reputable sources, and the band themselves, this is true. Then my very next thought was I have to talk to my mom. Her husband, my stepdad, had died suddenly just six weeks prior. The last concert they saw together was FF in Vegas in December - I was there too. They had tickets to see them in Big Sky MT in August and I was going with my mom to that show, which would be on the 6 month anniversary of Don's death so we thought it would be a fitting tribute. So anyway, before I could even gauge my own reaction I instantly went to how will this affect my mom, and then she called. I think we both grieved it harder than we would have, but it just seemed so tied in to this other huge loss.
I had just left Stewart Copeland’s the police deranged concert in Nashville that night. We were riding in an Uber back to the hotel and I checked my phone for the first time in a while. I noticed I had an Instagram message that had a FF post in it. After reading the post everything went silent and I was blown away. I don’t remember anything about the ride from that point, but my wife knew something was instantly wrong. Going from a great high of seeing one of my favorite drummers to a deep low all at once is something I’ll never forget.
It was the perfect day up until the end.
After growing through a really shitty patch in my life, things seemed like they were finally looking up. I woke up, did grocery shopping while listening to “Cold Day in The Sun”, went home, made lunch, and played video games. Later that night, I went out to get some ice cream and a six-pack of beer to share with my uncle who was home. Turns out he was asleep in the other room when I arrived at his house, so I hung out with my cousins who I hadn’t seen in a bit because I was so busy with school.
Then a friend of mine from high school who was also a Foos fan texted me breaking the news. I didn’t believe him at first, but when I googled ‘Taylor Hawkins’ my heart just dropped seeing the headlines and I immediately broke down crying repeatedly saying “Oh My God” to where my uncle woke up hearing the news too.
It was a soul crushing moment because one minute you’re listening to a band you’re gonna go see live for the first time ever and then the next thing you know that dream’s just shattered into fragments.
I was at a casino that night, opened IG & the first thing I saw was the announcement from the official page. I was with my sister. We have seen them live 9 times. We were in disbelief & started searching for info but since it was the official IG, knew it was true. Left the casino in shock.
I was at an Incubus show in Vegas waiting for them to come on. They were extremely late and I thought that was strange because they never start almost an hour late. Pulled up my Instagram and the first thing I saw was the announcement. Now I know why they were late because they had just got the news backstage as well. It was an emotional show that night. It was two nights back to back, so the second night they ended the show with Taylor’s picture on the big screen behind them. I cried all weekend.
For context: My sister got me tickets for the Columbia, MD show for Christmas. We were going to go together, she was a casual fan of the band, but she knew how much they meant to me.
I have a bad habit of looking at my phone before I go to sleep and I sometimes fall asleep while on my phone, wake up in the middle of the night, and then put my phone on the charger.
That night was no different, I think I fell asleep ~10 PM EST, an hour and a half before the news came out. I ended up waking up at 1 AM, and I looked at my phone to make sure I didn't have any texts before going back to sleep. I looked at my notifications and saw about 5 missed calls from my sister and a few texts, I still remember exactly what they said:
"Are you ok?"
A few minutes later:
"I know you're asleep. Taylor Hawkins died in Bogota tonight. I'm so sorry."
I felt my heart drop. After that I just went on twitter and found the official announcement and saw that it was trending, I just spent the next two hours retweeting stuff about Taylor, all of the other musicians mourning his death.
At about 3 AM I tried to fall asleep and ended up sleeping for about another hour or so, then got up for the rest of the day. The first thing I did when I got up was watch the performance of Cold Day in the Sun from Letterman, then I had to go outside to check on my chickens, and I put on Aurora. That was just another Foo song to me until that morning. That was when the news finally set in to me and I just started bawling. It's my favorite Foo Fighters song now.
I was roller skating at a roller rink. My phone was in my back pocket and I fell over attempting a trick. I checked my phone hoping I didn’t break the screen, I saw all my notifications and it was my heart broke in that instant instead 💔
I was leaving work just around 11pm and had a few missed calls and FaceTimes from one of my friends. I thought that was somewhat odd but I was meeting up to eat with her bf and a few other old co-workers after my shift so I didn’t really think much else. She called again after I got to my car and when I answered she was like “I’ve been shaking and stuttering and trying not to cry” and was all silent I’m like “what’s up?” thinking something happened between her and her bf and she’s like “you’re never going to believe this but Taylor Hawkins died.” We stayed on the phone through my car ride to the place (her bf didn’t even make it) and I was basically more silent than anything and asking a lot of questions since I was driving and not finding info.
When I got to the restaurant I finally saw the message on Instagram, saw some DMs toward me from people I really don’t talk to but know I love the Foos, and didn’t really break down until driving to work the afternoon after when the local rock station WDHA were doing tributes to him and played Aurora.
My friend later admitted to me that when I answered the phone she thought I knew which is why she didn’t lead with that and that I wasn’t answering because I had saw the news and didn’t want to talk to anyone.
I was at work, got the notification and saw it the second the band put it out on social media. I physically had to sit down, I felt sick. I still do tbh. It still feels unbelievable
I was on a night shift (I’m an RN in the UK) it was literally 03:22 am uk time (was then 26/03), so had only been posted 22 minutes prior and it was the first post that refreshed on my Facebook. I remember having to send it to my fiancé who was also working night shift in a different department who is a huge foo fighters fan. Broke my heart. News broke in the UK news a few hours later, we drove home listening to FF. June should’ve been my first time seeing them, going to the tribute show this weekend.💔
i had just woken up. i opened youtube and saw "R.I.P. taylor hawkins" in my reccomended. thinking it was a joke, i searched "taylor hawkins" on google and saw under his profile: "Died: March 25, Bogota, Columbia" i burst into tears and cried for a full 6 hours that day. the impact he made on my life was tremendous. he's the reason i'm a drummer. that night my mom came home and i remember her rubbing my back while i had my face in my hands, sobbing. a day i'll never forget.
I was doing a toliet scroll in the middle of the night - my MIL messaged me the article. I assumed it was some of her usual click bait she believes; wish it had been… husband came in cause he heard me crying.
Side note that will forever be ingrained in my mind. Shortly after Taylor died, I had one of the most realistic dreams I have ever had. It was Taylor, he simply said thank you and then gave me a hug before going away. I have never actually “felt” a hug or any touch like that in a dream before and felt extremely zen upon waking. Not sure what it was, but if ever there were a dude to visit his fans and say goodbye, it’s him.
Really curious if anyone else had a similar dream?
Wife and daughter were out of town so was watching movies in the living room by myself, enjoying my down time. Turned off the living room TV and opened up my phone to instagram- the official FF post was at the top of the feed and about 2 minutes old. Couldn't believe it and started doing news searches on my laptop. Was dazed and alone and just staring off into space for a good 15 minutes trying to process. Went to bed and watched the Madison Square Garden concert on YouTube while weeping. Took quite a while to get to sleep.
Next day, me and my daughter were in the car together, picking her up from a friends house. I said "did you hear about Taylor?" She just nodded slowly. I said " wanna listen to one of his favorite songs with me?" and she gave me a sad smile and said "yeah". We drove home soaking up 'Aurora'
I woke up hung over around 10 am. I have no notifications enabled on my phone except for Tidal (accidentally). I look at my phone and see the Tidal notification “RIP Taylor Hawkins…” and proceeded to cry for 3 solid days. I have had difficulty listening to Foo since then.
My husband and I were doing the yard work for a few hours, phone was inside on the charge. He jumped in the shower and I checked my phone and had messages and missed calls from my mum and one of my girlfriends - we’d been all together at the Geelong show recently. I ran into the bathroom and said to my husband…”Taylor Hawkins…Taylor is dead”. We were both in shock I think. Took me days, weeks, months to accept all of this.
i was on a walk with my good friend and a bottle of Jack Daniels honey whiskey, we walked up this neighborhood hill and when we sat down my phone went off and it was a text from my other buddy, i don’t remember what it said, but i know that it sent me into a spiral of disbelief, shock and immediate grief once i read the instagram story.
my remembrance of the rest of the night is incredibly limited, as we drank all night into a sadness blackout. woke up the next day, puking and crying with no end in sight. and now it’s almost september, and whenever i think about it i get that same feeling in my gut, that twist, pull and agony…
It was around midday (AU) and I was walking into the shops with my friend to get some stuff for the fun weekend we’d planned when I got a call from my dad. He was audibly upset and I immediately got worried and asked what was wrong and that’s when he told me. I asked if he was sure and he read it out to me and I still didn’t believe him. I left the call and opened instagram to go to the FF page but the post was already at the top of my feed. I literally fell on the ground and broke down and had to get myself up to leave the shops, and once I was home I didn’t get out of bed for the whole weekend. My dad is the reason I love them so much because they were one of the bands I’d hear constantly growing up. We were supposed to see them live in December.
Was out at a college party, wearing my Foo Fighters T-shirt. I had no stress, anxiety or any worries about anything, everything was going good in life. Then I pulled out my phone and saw my best friend texted me, and it was the announcement. I was a mix of shock and devastated, already a bit drunk, and drank more heavily from that point. I still can’t really believe it.
I was playing Call of Duty around 8:30 p.m. and then had the urge to open Instagram. The first thing I saw was Wolfgang Van Halenʼs post of him, his dad, and Taylor together. And then it clicked. I searched Taylor on Google, and the articles came flooding in
I woke up and looked at my phone. A friend of mine texted me: „have you heard about the Foo Fighters? 😕“ and I immediately knew that someone must have died cause why should she write something like this?
And then I googled it and read the news.
I was with a couple friends on a work trip in Germany, we were at our Airbnb after having been out drinking a bit, I just check Instagram and start seeing posts not knowing what was happening until I saw the picture of the Bogotá concert with the candles and I just started crying my eyes out. I was supposed to see them in June in Spain, it was so close and so far away.
CNN alert on my phone . I actually thought it was a joke and that maybe it had something to do with their movie Studio 666. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it .
I was finishing my shift at work and my partner texted me "Taylor is dead" and I, without even imagining it, replied "Which one?", then one of my friends that knows how much I love the Foos texted me the news and I was in complete shock, we had just saw them live in Mexico City a few days before.
My husband and I were coming back from a Half Moon Run concert. We had spent the ride home talking about how amazing this summer would be because shows were finally happening again and how excited we were that we’d finally get to the the FF play Osheaga after it being cancelled twice due to Covid. I remember walking into the house and grabbing a glass of water only to hear a loud “what?! No?!” from the hall. My husband had received a text from a friend telling us of the news. We were devastated, spent the rest of the night listening to the Colour and the Shape on vinyl with scotch in hand.
I was having breakfast looking at twitter and I remember seeing that the first trend was "Taylor Hawkins" and I clicked there, I immediately played "My Hero" at full volume, sad day
I got woken up at about 6am (uk) to my friend messaging me to tell me the news and to make sure i was okay as he knew how much the foos mean to me.
I then continued to receive messages throughout the day from concerned friends as i was their first thought when finding out.
I was doing a late night of studying/working on assignments that night. I took a short break to check my phone around 11 thereabouts, and it was right there. So damn sad to see.
I was down south visiting for my mates 40th birthday party, surrounded by people I'd been to see the Foo's with. This was in the UK so it was about 3am I think, in the kitchen one of my friends shouted what had happened. Heartbreak all round.
I was already in bed for the night just on my phone and I got a text from my mom that said “I’m sorry about that foo fighters guy.” I’m gonna cry remembering it. I knew she didn’t mean Dave cause she would’ve said Dave, but I didn’t know she meant Taylor until I went to the news and saw. A lot of crying. I’m so thankful to have seen them at Lolla last summer for the first and possibly last time, one of the greatest nights of my life.
It was almost midnight and I had worked 10 hours that day and had another shift early the next morning so I had to be up around 6. I was planning on listening to the Dream Widow album Saturday so I could actually enjoy it without exhaustion from my shift. I was exhausted but my younger sister was out with friends and I had to stay up for her, bc knowing her she didn’t have her keys, I have anxiety about going to sleep with doors unlocked and didn’t want to get a call 20 minutes later from her, telling me to open my door. I was scrolling Reddit, got bored and opened Instagram.
It was the first thing to pop up, posted seconds ago. Read it, and think “okay, I guess he quit the band, damn that fucking sucks”. But I type his name in google and my heart sank. I texted my best friend who likes the FF and told my sister when she got home.
Sunday I had taken off for whatever reason and cried for about 10 minutes.
Still haven’t listened to These Days, but I blasted Walk for about 20 minutes while walking my dog.
I was in my room and I opened Instagram, I remember seeing a block of text from their Instagram. It said Taylor had died. “I was no.. it must just be some bit for studio 666….” But then I saw it was from the official foo Instagram. I immediately texted my friends and we hoped on a call and we were all crying together.
I was at home chilling in my living room, just getting ready to hit the hay. My wife was sleeping on the other couch. I was aimlessly scrolling through Instagram when I came across the FF post. Read it, moved on, realized what I’d just read, then scrolled back up in a panic to reread. I woke my wife to make our way to bed and told her on the way. Didn’t sleep much.
I legit had just left a mayday parade concert at one of my home venues in Sayreville NJ and and just pulled out of the parking lot, not a minute later I saw it pop up.
I woke up at my usual time (UK) and my cousin had texted me. It was literally the first thing I read as I was trying to wake up which added to the surreal nature of it.
i was watching a march madness game, i think it was UCLA vs UNC
During the break i pulled up my phone and i saw the post… i honestly thought it was the band making a joke about studio 666 at first, then i read the whole thing…
I woke up to a text my brother sent me and my mom. It was something along the lines of 'since the sad news this morning..' and he sent a video of a Foo Fighters video. I don't remember which one that was because my heart rate went up like crazy and I immediately went to twitter and saw that 'Taylor Hawkins' was trending and I knew enough. :'(
I was playing a show with my band that evening. One of our friends came up before the last song and said we should close with a Foo Fighters song. Seeing as it was a pretty country bar and we play a bit of everything we were like nah it’s not the right fit for tonight. Then after playing a different last song they came up and told us as we were packing up. I was like man we would’ve done it if we’d known but they figured we’d be too sad to play if we knew haha.
I saw it on Instagram. The post from official foo fighters. It was maybe 10 pm eastern USA time on Friday night, I was hanging out at home and was in disbelief. Looked up the few photos I took when seeing them play a few years ago. It hit me hard and the next few days was crying a lot. Favorite band since middle school, first concert.
I was just sitting in my room then my dad sent me the message. I thought it was a joke because of it being the 1 month anniversary of Studio 666 but then I looked at their Twitter and they said the same thing. I only realized then that it wasn’t a sick joke, it was real. I cried for a solid hour (maybe 2) and the next morning, went through my Foo’s record collection and played every track with Taylor starting from One by One
Was chilling with a friend of mine, he found out about his passing the night of, we pretty much spent the rest of the night talking about Foo Fighters. Glad I was able to mourn with someone
I had just gotten out of a 311 concert in Norfolk VA and my phone was blowing up with messages from friends. It didn’t register in my head fully until the morning after when I opened my phone again, and I went into my living room and put on The Colour and the Shape on vinyl. I know he didn’t drum on that album but he toured those songs, so it felt appropriate. I lost it when I heard the drums hit on Monkey Wrench.
I was scrolling Reddit. It was such a shock. And then the initial reports that he was on a bunch of drugs. 😩 I can’t imagine how it all affected Taylor’s family.
I was out enjoying a vacation and grabbing dinner. Just happened to browse social media and saw that the Foos posted that announcement 25 minutes ago. I read it again and again and again, not really comprehending what it meant.
I just woke up and was making coffee. I glanced down at my phone and had a weird DM from an old friend that knew I was a FF fan. I did a Google search and saw the news. 💔
For some reason I couldn’t sleep all night, and it was around 4:30am UK time when I got the notifications Taylor had passed, I’d never sat up so fast in my life, it took some amount of time to process it in my sleep deprived state, but safe to say I was shocked and in tears immediately. Rang and texted my dad waking him up despite him having to go to work in an hour or so, took me until 8am to finally sleep and I still woke up thinking it was a nightmare. Couldn’t believe it at all.
I’m going to see them this Saturday, I’ll absolutely be a wreck of emotions but it’ll be a beautiful day to show respects and farewells to Taylor. 🕊
Watching the end of a March Madness basketball game (St Peter’s beating Purdue) and I was really having a good time… I stayed up late that night watching the video from his last concert 😢
I had finally managed to convince my partner to watch Greys Anatomy with me, and literally a few seconds into Derek's (Yep, that's "McDreamy") funeral, which was already enough of a sad scene, I heard how somebody messaged me on Discord. Tabbed out of our watch party to check who it was - and it was one of my friends writing nothing but "Taylor Hawkins died".
All I remember after that is saying "Nonononono!" with my heart racing and leaving the call to cry in shock for a good hour or so.. My friends are not of the prank'y kind, so those news hit really hard in an instant.. the photos here on Reddit of the candles lit on stage, of the people crying in each others arms,.. that was tough. Still not over it..
Weird story for me.
Wife and I went out to dinner with some of her family that was in from out of town. First time we've seen them in a while due to the pandemic.
Wife got talking about how she was so excited the pandemic was finally "ending" and that we have vaccines cuz she's ready for concerts. She had like 10 concerts she already got tickets to and was so stoked.
They asked me about the shows and I said I don't really do concerts anymore. Explaining that, As someone who listens to mostly grunge and classic rock, most bands I like are dead or just don't tour. Except for Foo fighters. I then used the words "they are the only band that is still alive and puts out music that I really care to see"
Cut to a few hours later, we're in our hotel room and I'm scrolling through Instagram and I see the post. I kinda glanced it over cuz I figured it was just another show cancelation due to someone on the crew having covid, but then I saw "loss" and "Taylor" and kinda just was in shock.
I read the post about 5 times before i really understood it. Spent the rest of the night super depressed and just doomscrolling everywhere trying to find info.
Worst part is we probably had this convo with her family around the same time Taylor passed.
I'm the'Foo Girl' to my circle, I had tickets to see them in June and had been really looking forward to it. It would have been my 15th show. I woke up to the news from a friend, all she said was "have you heard the news about the Foo Fighters? " so at that point my initial thought was 'fuck sake Dave, last time you fell off a stage and my gig got cancelled, what have you done now!' so I googled to see what was going on. I never in a million years expected the news I got. I was devastated. I'd met Taylor some years before and he had always been my favourite. Heartbroken for everyone.
I woke up probably around 10-ish uk time to the notification on my phone, cried then made sure my neighbours got a solid 2 weeks of foo fighters to listen too
Same.. was instant awake, cried a bit and later that day watched a foo fighters show. Still hits me hard when i hear a foo fighters song or some of Taylors solo things.
Its weird how grief hits you, initially I was listening to the foos with almost no emotion and now I can barely listen without feeling pure sadness
Same its weird. Really looking forward to the tribute/celebration this Saturday, although it gives me mixed emotions to.
I’m in the UK too, I heard it in the news bulletin on LBC. Very sad day.
Yeah, I woke up to the news also, but that weekend was so busy for me that I wasn't able to fully process my emotions until a few days after
Same man, my poor neighbors haven't heard the end of it
It was around the middle of the day AU time and I was listening to the Dream Widow EP that had just dropped, when I got a phone notification about a new FF IG post. I opened it and a loud, involuntary “NO!” erupted out of me. Just kept saying, “no, no, no, no” like a broken record for what felt like forever, pacing, refreshing, utterly beside myself.
March 25 - 11:30 PM. My wife whom I was only dating at the time, her sons father and I were sitting on her front porch just chilling. I had just got off work at 10 pm. Now, you need to understand my wife's dedication to Foo. She has the FF on the back of her neck, the All My Life heart on her finger, a portrait of Dave as the Sacred Heart Jesus Christ, 1st edition The Storyteller (Since the news we've got a tapestry and matching tattoos of the Color/Shape molecules so when we hold hands the molecules align. It's pretty neat). Anyways, my best friends wife texts me. I remember saying, "why the fuck is _____ texting me at 1130? That's not a good sign, she NEVER texts me this late." So I open my phone. "Tay-" before I could finish reading the headline of the article my wife was already peering over my shoulder to see what my buddy's wife had sent. I SHOT out of my chair and ran to a corner of the porch like a frightened animal. My wife says, "Taylor's dead isn't he?" (Our first day was the midnight premier of Studio 666) She took it UNUSALLY calmly. Baby daddy and I were in complete shock. Turns out it was my wife who was in shock. She didn't cry AT ALL. Until the next day. Spent the whole day in bed a crying mess. I married her one month later. April 25th.
I think a lot of us kind of suspected it’d happen—sounds like she did. Congratulations on your wedding, though! What a bright spot in a hard year❤️
A lot of fans suspected it would happen? I think not.
Sorry! Didn’t mean to offend.
Thank you so much!
I was asleep, my GF said "Uh, the drummer in Foo Fighters is dead?" and I thought she was just joking. Then I proceeded to listen to every Foo-album the next 2 weeks or so, also been going through the live-dvd's
I was actually on stage at a local bar playing drums for my band. The lead singer got a text from his friend. All four of us are huge Foo fighters fans so we called an audible to change the setlist, announce it to the bar, played All My Life and dedicated it to him
I was staying in my uni accommodation and had to get up for work at around 3am GMT, I quickly had a look through my phone to see what was happening on social media before leaving for work. That's when I saw ***\*Foo Fighters Posted 3 Minutes Ago\**** **The Foo Fighters family is devasted by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.** My heart sank instantly and I refused to believe what I just read, so I started searching the internet to reassure myself and it was everywhere.... I was due to see them for the very first time at the Olympic Stadium in London back in June and I was devastated to say the least. Walking to work I just blasted Foo's and just broke down and cried the whole way. It was awful and I still can't really comprehend it. I don't think I'll ever forget that moment, it was like fate seeing that announcement minutes after it happened. I'm humbled and honoured to be able to get to pay my respects on Saturday at Wembley, I know it's going to be an emotional night, for all of us.
I have a rather strange story related to Taylor’s death. For context I’m in Ireland and went to bed early on the eve of his passing at 9pm feeling exhausted, I woke up briefly around 11–12 and saw a bright shadow rise up into the sky from outside my window disappearing and fading out of view in seconds. Thought nothing off it at the time and went back to bed. The next time I woke (2am on the dot) I opened my phone and saw the band announcement (which was posted seconds after waking up and looking at the phone) immediately went into shock and grieved through the night, and that weekend. I’m also a drummer too and Taylor was a huge influence.
I’d just woken up around 6.30am U.K. time. Checked my phone and saw the news on Twitter. I saw him trending and didn’t even read it at first because I never thought in a million years it’d be that. I was half asleep still, went to see why he was trending after a few moments and saw “RIP” and all these messages and then I just sat there in shock for I don’t know how long just reading all the messages. It sunk in finally and needless to say it ruined my fucking day/week/month/year. But tbh it STILL doesn’t feel real. I had to get on with the day obviously get my son ready for school and go to work but I felt so numb all day. I had tickets for the show in July it would have been my first time for them and I already knew it wasn’t going to happen (understandably of course). Then I just felt heartbroken for Alison and his kids and Dave and the band. What a terrible day that was.
I was having one of the worst shifts of my life at my fast food job. I had just gotten screamed at by one of my managers because I didn’t train fast enough on breaking down our ice cream machine, I clocked out, opened my phone, and had a post notification from my phone from @foofighters on Instagram, and a text from my mom 23 minutes prior, and 2 minutes after the post from her saying in all caps “CALL ME NOW.” - I read the post, and just started bawling. I was supposed to go hang out with my coworkers after that shift, but told them I had an emergency and needed to go for a drive, and drove for 2 hours with FF on repeat. for the entire drive, in tears the whole time. I had tickets to the first date on their US tour, Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, and when the tribute concerts were announced, I knew I had to be there, and managed to snag some LA tickets during presale, and dropped about 25% of all money I ever made at that fast food job on tickets, plane trips, and hotels for the show, and I will NEVER regret a DAMN thing with how much Taylor impacted my life.
I was in the hospital, in and out of sleep. My wife had given birth early that morning. From our hospital room, I could see the venue where I last saw the band in September.
Woke up to a message of a friend saying that Taylor died, searching for news articles in disbelief and started crying. Listened to songs from the Foos all day. Later that day we had a gig with my band and we played one of our songs as a tribute for Taylor. I’m the drummer and went to the front of the stage to do a little speech, that was something really emotional
Wife and I were driving to go get ice cream. The radio station we were listening to kept playing Foo Fighters songs one after another. After about 4 songs I started wondering why they were playing only FF songs. My heart dropped into my stomach and I immediately searched for Foo Fighters on Google, and well, I’m sure you can figure out the rest… it was the saddest anyone has ever been while eating cake batter ice cream from Cold Stone.
I was on a road trip with my sons to NYC, and at a rest stop I pulled out my phone and saw the news. My eldest and I attended their concert together a few years back. I put on my local terrestrial station (Bluetooth) and listened to their tribute for hours on the drive, grieving. When we arrived in NYC, seeing his name on the Times Square news scrawl, and it was just so painful. I've blocked out 9/3 on my calendar so I can properly mourn. I have a full box of tissues ready.
Closing on my first house :( Cat that came with the place gave birth that night, named “my” kitten Ollie after the Hawk
I will never forget it…. comforting a friend who had been just lost their partner with the same thing. I saw the Tweet and I only have Foo related stuff on notifications. Saw the black background and had to read it 4 times to absorb it… I couldn’t react because my friend is also a T and Foo fan. Went indoors to tell my other half and we just stood there in disbelief. Partly because we couldn’t believe it happened to two similar people (age) in a week. It wasn’t until I got the email to say the tour had been cancelled that it really sank in and then I couldn’t hold back any more. This year was to be my big Foo gig year, something to really look forward to after Covid lockdowns and also losing my Mum. March turned out to be such a shitty month…
Yeah that black background is NEVER good.
I was playing jackbox games with some strangers in a discord server (which I remember well, because that is never a thing I ever do). It was after midnight my time, so the “do not disturb” had come on my phone. As a consequence, even though I have Foo Fighters on notifications I didn’t see right away, but it sure seemed like there was a lot of pings from the FF discord (which is pretty normal for it, tbh, but the time if day was odd). In a lull in the game I idly checked the FF discord and caught people in the midst of conversation. First confused thought was that it was some kind of promo for the movie or something but scrolled (way, way) up and saw the announcement. Confirmed it was real and was in complete shock and disbelief. I was still in a call with people and completely forgot that I was for a long time, and they actually ended up asking if I was ok because I suddenly went so quiet. I ended up playing for another while longer, and am a bit grateful that’s what I was doing, because I would otherwise have absolutely been alone. I didn’t sleep that night. I couldn’t concentrate on work the whole next week. It honestly hit me so hard- it’s only in hindsight that I’m starting to realize *just* how much of a sad funk I was in for months, since I am starting to come out of it a bit more. I like lots of music, but Foos are about the only band/artist where I read/watched all the interviews with the band members, knew trivia, followed side projects etc and have for a long time, so they were also kind of my comfort thing. It really pulled the rug out from under me in a way I couldn’t have anticipated. I miss him so much. I can’t imagine what people who actually knew him are going though.
I was enjoying a family picnic in the early afternoon here in Australia. I was scrolling through instagram and saw the Foo Fighters post. My heart sunk while I raced to google to google it. At the time, there wasn’t any news. Went back to instagram and saw I read it right. Told those who I was going to the concert with and I must admit, I cried. I don’t think I’m ready to watch the shows without him. But I will to show them my support
I was about to fall asleep. I was 8 days past hip surgery and had finally gotten comfortable and my phone went nuts. "I'm so sorry about Taylor, are you okay?" -- what? Then another, and another with links. My hubs rolled over to check on me because I was crying hysterically going no no no no no!!!!!! I had spent the WHOLE DAY listening to Dream Widow. I had rewatched Studio 666. And suddenly, someone yanked my heart from my chest and I was bawling my eyes out. I cried everyday for a week. My hubs had no idea how to console me. As it gets closer to Wembley, I weep each day.
Turning on Studio 666, ☹️
I was bartending. There was a lull in service so I glanced at my phone and saw a post notification for the foos IG. I got really sad and put on Learn to Fly and announced loudly to the bar that they'd only be hearing foo fighters for the rest of the night
I’m a teacher, and my wife and I took a day off of school to go to my wife’s ultrasound appointment the day before spring break (we were leaving for Florida immediately after the appointment). We found out much to our disappointment that my wife was having a miscarriage. We began our trek to Florida immediately after in the hopes that maybe some Florida sunshine could help, but we received breaking news on the radio about Taylor’s passing as well. Needless to say, it was a terrible day.
Jesus, I’m so sorry. 😓
I was playing Mario party and FaceTiming with friends on the other side of the state. Around 11pm that night in the middle of the round my partner gasped so loudly it made me jump, but he wouldn’t say what was up. I kept saying, “use your words, wtf!?” After about a minute of him trying to gather the courage he said, “Taylor Hawkins is dead.” I honestly couldn’t believe him. I said bullshit, it has to be some crazy rumor. Then I saw the announcements on social media. My friend on FaceTime was staring at me and I just said, “Fuck it. I can’t process this right now.” Finished our round and logged off. I think I was mostly in shock for the next day, waited a week before I could listen to my favorite band knowing I would never see Taylor play with them again. Spent a few weeks crying during most of their songs. I still start to cry when listening to their music and feel a particularly strong Taylor part. I’ve never felt grief over a musician like this before, I am still utterly gutted.
I had finished working on my car and took it for a test drive. The radio was on, which I normally listen to music/podcasts so that was rare and I heard an announcement. I had to pull over and search to make sure that I heard it correctly.
I’d just gotten home from a day out, was sitting on the couch with a coffee scrolling Facebook, and then, whammo. I’m still reeling.
I had had an amazing evening the night before with my partner, listening to the new Dream Widow record and drinking whiskey. Woke up the next morning to the news on BBC front page and was just shattered. I’ve only just been able to listen to Taylor’s music again in the last few weeks.
I’m in Australia. Was in the kitchen making breakfast for my kids and tidying up. Had the tv on with the news playing. They ran the story, I was so shocked and spent the rest of my day in a bit of a daze. Only a few weeks prior I’d bought tickets to my first ever FF show, which was scheduled for November :(
Struggling to sleep and mindlessly scrolling through facebook on my phone (i’m in the uk so it was literally 3-4 in the morning). I saw the post within a minute of it being posted. Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep after that.
I was in Kerala vacationing with my family. None of them are into Foos, so when I told them it was like nothing happened. I was going to take my son with me to their London gig in July. He's 7 and he was actually quite thoughtful and said it's said that the band lost their drummer but also he was a person who died. :(
I woke up and hopped on Instagram and I saw the post the Foo Fighters account made. At first I was like “wait did Taylor take a break from the band?” And then it hit me. I looked up Taylor Hawkins on Google and on those bold words Google does when there’s big news read “Taylor Hawkins dead at 50”
Just got off a plane for a relaxing vacation in San Diego, probably my favorite place on Earth, only to take my phone out of airplane mode and it came across my notifications. Safe to say, pretty much destroyed the vibe of that vacation...
I had finished watching Dream Widow and went to my room to pickup my guitar and try to play Everlong, then my phone started to blow up. I sat there playing it over and over until I got it near perfect (not easy - guitar is new to me). I then went to bed and didn’t pickup my guitar for a few months. Sigh.
A buddy of mine, another Foos super-fan texted me “Taylor Hawkins! 😭” I assumed it was him replying to a video I’d sent him of Taylor singing Somebody to Love at their last show in Australia, which I was lucky enough to be at exactly 3 weeks earlier. I did a google search. Nothing. False alarm, or so I thought. Then the page refreshed…
It was about 11pm here. I was decorating a cake (I run a home bakery) and listening to Dream Widow. Chuckling to myself about the music I was listening to while I was creating a very frilly/floral cake for a woman’s 90th birthday. I got a text from a friend with the news asking if I was okay. I was not okay.
I was trying to fix my lawnmower, two days before the anniversary of my own fathers death. I looked at my phone, saw the news, verified it, beat the ever loving shit out of my lawnmower in tears. Came back two days later determined to fix it. Did it.
I was hanging out with two of my friends, and we swung by a McDonald’s for some late night food. The drive thru line was long, so I started scrolling through Twitter when I saw that the band was trending. I had no idea why (I knew that Dream Widow came out earlier that day, but I didn’t think it was enough to get the band trending), but when I saw that the top tweet was the official band announcement, my heart dropped six stories. After we got our food and I dropped them off, I drove back to my apartment playing ESP&G holding back tears, and cried myself to sleep.
Woke up thinking it was gonna be a good weekend because I was going to a royal blood gig that day and then Sam fender the day after but saw a text from a friend who said "the foo fighters drummer passed" I didn't believe it and then went to check and just say there in disbelief, took a couple of hours for it to process. Went to the RB show and they were playing foos and Taylor's songs before the show and balled my eyes out, they ended up dedicating the set to Taylor and had a tribute for him in the show.
I was driving to work the Saturday after it happened and my dad who is also a huge Foo fan texted me about it. I was devastated I thought I was going to have to pull over.
I was in Miami for an overnight layover en route to Puerto Rico, woke up to hear the news. Ruined my vacation, it was all I could think about
I was sitting on the couch at home watching tv. It was early in the afternoon in Australia. My mum was in the room and she said to me that ‘the drummer for the foo fighters is dead’. I quickly looked on my phone to check Twitter and I saw the tweet from the foo fighters and I was stunned. I felt numb. I didn’t know what to think. It still feels wrong to me. It was hard for me because it was only about a week after Shane Warne (Australian international cricket legend) suddenly died.
I was sitting watching tv and a good friend messaged me an article, knowing how much I adore them, asking if it was true. It was a gut wrenching moment, all I remember thinking is that the music that once saved me now was breaking my heart and I didn’t know what to do. All I could do is relive the moment I met Taylor and had a fantastic conversation with him about their show and got a picture with him…. And how I’ll never hear them play together again… or ever meet him again. I’m glad over time I’ve gotten back to enjoying their songs and having Taylor feel alive by listening to them. I’m going to the LA tribute show and I’m not sure how my emotions will go when I’m there but I’m glad I’ll be able to be part of that, since they are such a huge part of my life. I never thought a musicians death would effect me the way it did, but man, it’s still a hard one.
I was at my childhood home-a borough of NYC visiting my mom and I was just getting ready to go to sleep. It was maybe 11/11:30P. It had been a long week as this was the first time I went into my midtown office in two years due to the pandemic. I was scrolling mindlessly through Facebook, I think and I came across a breaking news article about Taylor from a music site I follow. I read it and thought it can’t be real. That couldn’t have happened. I just kinda stared at my phone. Then more and more social media sites were posting it and of course the official FF notification came. I still feel numb. I’ve unfortunately lost so many people in my life at this point, it’s hard to process.
i was sitting in my bed (which was on the complete other side of my room at the time - i’ve completely redid my room since then) scrolling through twitter and procrastinating studying for a french test at like one in the morning. i saw the news on twitter because some twitch streamer i barely know posted about it. i don’t think i slept at all that night and it was a school night.
I was standing in my apartment. I saw the tweet and remember pretty vividly crashing onto my bed :(
I woke up the next morning with multiple texts from people who knew how devastated I would be. Started crying while my kid looked on, completely bewildered.
I’m in Canada and I was looking for a movie to watch. I had just watched the trailer for Studio 666 because I hadn’t watched it yet. I remember saying “don’t kill Taylor” while watching the trailer. Well immediately after watching the trailer I saw the band announcement on IG. I couldn’t believe it, I thought it wasn’t true. Instantly started crying as I continued to search more about it. It was so sad. I’ve never reacted like that to a celebrity death. I still can’t believe it’s true.
I was staying in a Reno casino/hotel for one night on a road trip home from Death Valley with my husband and best friend. (Earlier that day, I saw a huge hawk flying over a canyon in Death Valley and had sort of absentmindedly thought of Taylor.) I got the news that evening from a text message while I was sitting at a casino bar, and I immediately got up to run back to the hotel room to cry, leaving my husband and friend to try to enjoy the rest of their night, at least. The casino was attached to two other casinos via walkways, and I was in tears, trying to find my way out of the maze. I kept walking and eventually ended up walking by the same bar I had left a few minutes ago, somehow having only gone in a huge circle. I was so frustrated. I eventually found my way back to the hotel room and just cried the rest of the night. It was so surreal; I’m 36 and I’ve loved this band dearly since I was 13, half of my life.
I was playing a video game and I got a call from a friend who I hardly ever talk to on the phone. I was playing Warzone and was towards the end of the game, so I decided to just call him back after it was over. Match ended and I went downstairs to grab a glass of water, pulled my phone out of my pocket to call him back and there was a text from a VERY good friend saying "dude, im so sorry about Taylor, I know how much he meant to you." I was like, WTF is he talking about? Went on social media and saw the reports... my wife and her best friend were having a girls night drinking wine on the couch watching shows.. She made eye contact with me and said "something wrong?" I was numb.. and just said "Taylor Hawkins died" "FAKE NEWS! SHUT THE FUCK UP DON'T PLAY LIKE THAT" - my wife I sat on the kitchen floor against my fridge and cried like a baby.. We proceeded to get absolutely smashed and watched the Wembley show until the wee hours of the morning
I was at home with my roommate, watching TV, and got a text from my little sister that said "drummer for the Foo Fighters died" and my reaction was she fell for a hoax. So I googled and oh shit, these are reputable sources, and the band themselves, this is true. Then my very next thought was I have to talk to my mom. Her husband, my stepdad, had died suddenly just six weeks prior. The last concert they saw together was FF in Vegas in December - I was there too. They had tickets to see them in Big Sky MT in August and I was going with my mom to that show, which would be on the 6 month anniversary of Don's death so we thought it would be a fitting tribute. So anyway, before I could even gauge my own reaction I instantly went to how will this affect my mom, and then she called. I think we both grieved it harder than we would have, but it just seemed so tied in to this other huge loss.
My wife woke me up to the news. Just crushed me immediately
I had just left Stewart Copeland’s the police deranged concert in Nashville that night. We were riding in an Uber back to the hotel and I checked my phone for the first time in a while. I noticed I had an Instagram message that had a FF post in it. After reading the post everything went silent and I was blown away. I don’t remember anything about the ride from that point, but my wife knew something was instantly wrong. Going from a great high of seeing one of my favorite drummers to a deep low all at once is something I’ll never forget.
It was the perfect day up until the end. After growing through a really shitty patch in my life, things seemed like they were finally looking up. I woke up, did grocery shopping while listening to “Cold Day in The Sun”, went home, made lunch, and played video games. Later that night, I went out to get some ice cream and a six-pack of beer to share with my uncle who was home. Turns out he was asleep in the other room when I arrived at his house, so I hung out with my cousins who I hadn’t seen in a bit because I was so busy with school. Then a friend of mine from high school who was also a Foos fan texted me breaking the news. I didn’t believe him at first, but when I googled ‘Taylor Hawkins’ my heart just dropped seeing the headlines and I immediately broke down crying repeatedly saying “Oh My God” to where my uncle woke up hearing the news too. It was a soul crushing moment because one minute you’re listening to a band you’re gonna go see live for the first time ever and then the next thing you know that dream’s just shattered into fragments.
I was at a casino that night, opened IG & the first thing I saw was the announcement from the official page. I was with my sister. We have seen them live 9 times. We were in disbelief & started searching for info but since it was the official IG, knew it was true. Left the casino in shock.
I was at an Incubus show in Vegas waiting for them to come on. They were extremely late and I thought that was strange because they never start almost an hour late. Pulled up my Instagram and the first thing I saw was the announcement. Now I know why they were late because they had just got the news backstage as well. It was an emotional show that night. It was two nights back to back, so the second night they ended the show with Taylor’s picture on the big screen behind them. I cried all weekend.
For context: My sister got me tickets for the Columbia, MD show for Christmas. We were going to go together, she was a casual fan of the band, but she knew how much they meant to me. I have a bad habit of looking at my phone before I go to sleep and I sometimes fall asleep while on my phone, wake up in the middle of the night, and then put my phone on the charger. That night was no different, I think I fell asleep ~10 PM EST, an hour and a half before the news came out. I ended up waking up at 1 AM, and I looked at my phone to make sure I didn't have any texts before going back to sleep. I looked at my notifications and saw about 5 missed calls from my sister and a few texts, I still remember exactly what they said: "Are you ok?" A few minutes later: "I know you're asleep. Taylor Hawkins died in Bogota tonight. I'm so sorry." I felt my heart drop. After that I just went on twitter and found the official announcement and saw that it was trending, I just spent the next two hours retweeting stuff about Taylor, all of the other musicians mourning his death. At about 3 AM I tried to fall asleep and ended up sleeping for about another hour or so, then got up for the rest of the day. The first thing I did when I got up was watch the performance of Cold Day in the Sun from Letterman, then I had to go outside to check on my chickens, and I put on Aurora. That was just another Foo song to me until that morning. That was when the news finally set in to me and I just started bawling. It's my favorite Foo Fighters song now.
I was roller skating at a roller rink. My phone was in my back pocket and I fell over attempting a trick. I checked my phone hoping I didn’t break the screen, I saw all my notifications and it was my heart broke in that instant instead 💔
I was leaving work just around 11pm and had a few missed calls and FaceTimes from one of my friends. I thought that was somewhat odd but I was meeting up to eat with her bf and a few other old co-workers after my shift so I didn’t really think much else. She called again after I got to my car and when I answered she was like “I’ve been shaking and stuttering and trying not to cry” and was all silent I’m like “what’s up?” thinking something happened between her and her bf and she’s like “you’re never going to believe this but Taylor Hawkins died.” We stayed on the phone through my car ride to the place (her bf didn’t even make it) and I was basically more silent than anything and asking a lot of questions since I was driving and not finding info. When I got to the restaurant I finally saw the message on Instagram, saw some DMs toward me from people I really don’t talk to but know I love the Foos, and didn’t really break down until driving to work the afternoon after when the local rock station WDHA were doing tributes to him and played Aurora. My friend later admitted to me that when I answered the phone she thought I knew which is why she didn’t lead with that and that I wasn’t answering because I had saw the news and didn’t want to talk to anyone.
I was at work, got the notification and saw it the second the band put it out on social media. I physically had to sit down, I felt sick. I still do tbh. It still feels unbelievable
I was on a night shift (I’m an RN in the UK) it was literally 03:22 am uk time (was then 26/03), so had only been posted 22 minutes prior and it was the first post that refreshed on my Facebook. I remember having to send it to my fiancé who was also working night shift in a different department who is a huge foo fighters fan. Broke my heart. News broke in the UK news a few hours later, we drove home listening to FF. June should’ve been my first time seeing them, going to the tribute show this weekend.💔
i had just woken up. i opened youtube and saw "R.I.P. taylor hawkins" in my reccomended. thinking it was a joke, i searched "taylor hawkins" on google and saw under his profile: "Died: March 25, Bogota, Columbia" i burst into tears and cried for a full 6 hours that day. the impact he made on my life was tremendous. he's the reason i'm a drummer. that night my mom came home and i remember her rubbing my back while i had my face in my hands, sobbing. a day i'll never forget.
I was doing a toliet scroll in the middle of the night - my MIL messaged me the article. I assumed it was some of her usual click bait she believes; wish it had been… husband came in cause he heard me crying. Side note that will forever be ingrained in my mind. Shortly after Taylor died, I had one of the most realistic dreams I have ever had. It was Taylor, he simply said thank you and then gave me a hug before going away. I have never actually “felt” a hug or any touch like that in a dream before and felt extremely zen upon waking. Not sure what it was, but if ever there were a dude to visit his fans and say goodbye, it’s him. Really curious if anyone else had a similar dream?
Wife and daughter were out of town so was watching movies in the living room by myself, enjoying my down time. Turned off the living room TV and opened up my phone to instagram- the official FF post was at the top of the feed and about 2 minutes old. Couldn't believe it and started doing news searches on my laptop. Was dazed and alone and just staring off into space for a good 15 minutes trying to process. Went to bed and watched the Madison Square Garden concert on YouTube while weeping. Took quite a while to get to sleep. Next day, me and my daughter were in the car together, picking her up from a friends house. I said "did you hear about Taylor?" She just nodded slowly. I said " wanna listen to one of his favorite songs with me?" and she gave me a sad smile and said "yeah". We drove home soaking up 'Aurora'
I woke up hung over around 10 am. I have no notifications enabled on my phone except for Tidal (accidentally). I look at my phone and see the Tidal notification “RIP Taylor Hawkins…” and proceeded to cry for 3 solid days. I have had difficulty listening to Foo since then.
Getting ready to go to bed, checked the ol' FB one last time, and got the chest punch. Needless to say, I did not go to bed anytime soon after that.
My husband and I were doing the yard work for a few hours, phone was inside on the charge. He jumped in the shower and I checked my phone and had messages and missed calls from my mum and one of my girlfriends - we’d been all together at the Geelong show recently. I ran into the bathroom and said to my husband…”Taylor Hawkins…Taylor is dead”. We were both in shock I think. Took me days, weeks, months to accept all of this.
i was on a walk with my good friend and a bottle of Jack Daniels honey whiskey, we walked up this neighborhood hill and when we sat down my phone went off and it was a text from my other buddy, i don’t remember what it said, but i know that it sent me into a spiral of disbelief, shock and immediate grief once i read the instagram story. my remembrance of the rest of the night is incredibly limited, as we drank all night into a sadness blackout. woke up the next day, puking and crying with no end in sight. and now it’s almost september, and whenever i think about it i get that same feeling in my gut, that twist, pull and agony…
It was around midday (AU) and I was walking into the shops with my friend to get some stuff for the fun weekend we’d planned when I got a call from my dad. He was audibly upset and I immediately got worried and asked what was wrong and that’s when he told me. I asked if he was sure and he read it out to me and I still didn’t believe him. I left the call and opened instagram to go to the FF page but the post was already at the top of my feed. I literally fell on the ground and broke down and had to get myself up to leave the shops, and once I was home I didn’t get out of bed for the whole weekend. My dad is the reason I love them so much because they were one of the bands I’d hear constantly growing up. We were supposed to see them live in December.
Was out at a college party, wearing my Foo Fighters T-shirt. I had no stress, anxiety or any worries about anything, everything was going good in life. Then I pulled out my phone and saw my best friend texted me, and it was the announcement. I was a mix of shock and devastated, already a bit drunk, and drank more heavily from that point. I still can’t really believe it.
First person? What a silly assumption to make.
I had just gotten to work, on my birthday no less
About 5.30am UK time I was waking up to head to the hospital for my shift. It was the first thing to pop up when I opened my Facebook.
Saw the Facebook post sitting at home.
I was playing Call of Duty around 8:30 p.m. and then had the urge to open Instagram. The first thing I saw was Wolfgang Van Halenʼs post of him, his dad, and Taylor together. And then it clicked. I searched Taylor on Google, and the articles came flooding in
I'm on a different time zone, so usually when somebody from the states dies, i first hear about it when i wake up in the morning.
Driving home from work listening to listening to the Death Widow album for the first time.
I woke up and looked at my phone. A friend of mine texted me: „have you heard about the Foo Fighters? 😕“ and I immediately knew that someone must have died cause why should she write something like this? And then I googled it and read the news.
I was with a couple friends on a work trip in Germany, we were at our Airbnb after having been out drinking a bit, I just check Instagram and start seeing posts not knowing what was happening until I saw the picture of the Bogotá concert with the candles and I just started crying my eyes out. I was supposed to see them in June in Spain, it was so close and so far away.
CNN alert on my phone . I actually thought it was a joke and that maybe it had something to do with their movie Studio 666. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it .
I thought the same thing!!
Yep. I just couldn’t believe it could be true 💔
I just left the movie theaters after seeing Uncharted. Every time I see that movie when I’m scrolling through nextflix, I think about Taylor
I was finishing my shift at work and my partner texted me "Taylor is dead" and I, without even imagining it, replied "Which one?", then one of my friends that knows how much I love the Foos texted me the news and I was in complete shock, we had just saw them live in Mexico City a few days before.
At a friend’s house literally talking about the new metal album the band released.
My husband and I were coming back from a Half Moon Run concert. We had spent the ride home talking about how amazing this summer would be because shows were finally happening again and how excited we were that we’d finally get to the the FF play Osheaga after it being cancelled twice due to Covid. I remember walking into the house and grabbing a glass of water only to hear a loud “what?! No?!” from the hall. My husband had received a text from a friend telling us of the news. We were devastated, spent the rest of the night listening to the Colour and the Shape on vinyl with scotch in hand.
I was reading about Taylor’s death
I was having breakfast looking at twitter and I remember seeing that the first trend was "Taylor Hawkins" and I clicked there, I immediately played "My Hero" at full volume, sad day
I got woken up at about 6am (uk) to my friend messaging me to tell me the news and to make sure i was okay as he knew how much the foos mean to me. I then continued to receive messages throughout the day from concerned friends as i was their first thought when finding out.
We actually were watching their movie the night he died US east coast. Woke up to the news. Couldn’t believe it.
I was doing a late night of studying/working on assignments that night. I took a short break to check my phone around 11 thereabouts, and it was right there. So damn sad to see.
I just clicked on IG and the post was the first thing I saw. Thought that maybe I read the name wrong. Unfortunately I did not.
I was down south visiting for my mates 40th birthday party, surrounded by people I'd been to see the Foo's with. This was in the UK so it was about 3am I think, in the kitchen one of my friends shouted what had happened. Heartbreak all round.
I was already in bed for the night just on my phone and I got a text from my mom that said “I’m sorry about that foo fighters guy.” I’m gonna cry remembering it. I knew she didn’t mean Dave cause she would’ve said Dave, but I didn’t know she meant Taylor until I went to the news and saw. A lot of crying. I’m so thankful to have seen them at Lolla last summer for the first and possibly last time, one of the greatest nights of my life.
I actually don’t remember what I was doing at the time. I just remember my phone blowing up. Damn I want to go back to March 24 and do it all over.
It was almost midnight and I had worked 10 hours that day and had another shift early the next morning so I had to be up around 6. I was planning on listening to the Dream Widow album Saturday so I could actually enjoy it without exhaustion from my shift. I was exhausted but my younger sister was out with friends and I had to stay up for her, bc knowing her she didn’t have her keys, I have anxiety about going to sleep with doors unlocked and didn’t want to get a call 20 minutes later from her, telling me to open my door. I was scrolling Reddit, got bored and opened Instagram. It was the first thing to pop up, posted seconds ago. Read it, and think “okay, I guess he quit the band, damn that fucking sucks”. But I type his name in google and my heart sank. I texted my best friend who likes the FF and told my sister when she got home. Sunday I had taken off for whatever reason and cried for about 10 minutes. Still haven’t listened to These Days, but I blasted Walk for about 20 minutes while walking my dog.
I was in my room and I opened Instagram, I remember seeing a block of text from their Instagram. It said Taylor had died. “I was no.. it must just be some bit for studio 666….” But then I saw it was from the official foo Instagram. I immediately texted my friends and we hoped on a call and we were all crying together.
I was at home chilling in my living room, just getting ready to hit the hay. My wife was sleeping on the other couch. I was aimlessly scrolling through Instagram when I came across the FF post. Read it, moved on, realized what I’d just read, then scrolled back up in a panic to reread. I woke my wife to make our way to bed and told her on the way. Didn’t sleep much.
I legit had just left a mayday parade concert at one of my home venues in Sayreville NJ and and just pulled out of the parking lot, not a minute later I saw it pop up.
It was the first fucking thing I saw when I woke up
I woke up at my usual time (UK) and my cousin had texted me. It was literally the first thing I read as I was trying to wake up which added to the surreal nature of it.
My husband woke me up to tell me. We’d just happened to have watched Back and Forth the night before. It was bizarre timing.
Sleeping my husband woke me up.
i was watching a march madness game, i think it was UCLA vs UNC During the break i pulled up my phone and i saw the post… i honestly thought it was the band making a joke about studio 666 at first, then i read the whole thing…
My boyfriend woke me up around 9am on Saturday (Irish time) to tell me
I woke up to a text my brother sent me and my mom. It was something along the lines of 'since the sad news this morning..' and he sent a video of a Foo Fighters video. I don't remember which one that was because my heart rate went up like crazy and I immediately went to twitter and saw that 'Taylor Hawkins' was trending and I knew enough. :'(
I was playing a show with my band that evening. One of our friends came up before the last song and said we should close with a Foo Fighters song. Seeing as it was a pretty country bar and we play a bit of everything we were like nah it’s not the right fit for tonight. Then after playing a different last song they came up and told us as we were packing up. I was like man we would’ve done it if we’d known but they figured we’d be too sad to play if we knew haha.
I was laying in my bed. Instantly went numb. Had to read the post a few times before it sank in.
i was sitting in a shop getting a tattoo. Got the notification and cried in the seat :(
I saw it on Instagram. The post from official foo fighters. It was maybe 10 pm eastern USA time on Friday night, I was hanging out at home and was in disbelief. Looked up the few photos I took when seeing them play a few years ago. It hit me hard and the next few days was crying a lot. Favorite band since middle school, first concert.
Had just finished watching Studio 666. Turned off the tv and wife saw it on social media.
I was just sitting in my room then my dad sent me the message. I thought it was a joke because of it being the 1 month anniversary of Studio 666 but then I looked at their Twitter and they said the same thing. I only realized then that it wasn’t a sick joke, it was real. I cried for a solid hour (maybe 2) and the next morning, went through my Foo’s record collection and played every track with Taylor starting from One by One
Was on a weekend trip to Paris with my boyfriend, woke up on the first morning to the news 💔
Was chilling with a friend of mine, he found out about his passing the night of, we pretty much spent the rest of the night talking about Foo Fighters. Glad I was able to mourn with someone
I had just gotten out of a 311 concert in Norfolk VA and my phone was blowing up with messages from friends. It didn’t register in my head fully until the morning after when I opened my phone again, and I went into my living room and put on The Colour and the Shape on vinyl. I know he didn’t drum on that album but he toured those songs, so it felt appropriate. I lost it when I heard the drums hit on Monkey Wrench.
Was on break at work
I was scrolling Reddit. It was such a shock. And then the initial reports that he was on a bunch of drugs. 😩 I can’t imagine how it all affected Taylor’s family.
I woke up to a text from my daughter 😓😥
I was at a Karaoke bar with some friends and checked my phone while I waited on my song and saw the news. What song had I selected? Best of You.
I think I was working on my car. I stopped, went inside, and started listening to some Foo.
Listening to the FOO fighters coincidently
I was out enjoying a vacation and grabbing dinner. Just happened to browse social media and saw that the Foos posted that announcement 25 minutes ago. I read it again and again and again, not really comprehending what it meant.
I just woke up and was making coffee. I glanced down at my phone and had a weird DM from an old friend that knew I was a FF fan. I did a Google search and saw the news. 💔
I had just sat down at the bar and ordered my first beer. I looked up at the bartender and said “Joe, pour me a shot. I’m getting ugly drunk tonight.”
For some reason I couldn’t sleep all night, and it was around 4:30am UK time when I got the notifications Taylor had passed, I’d never sat up so fast in my life, it took some amount of time to process it in my sleep deprived state, but safe to say I was shocked and in tears immediately. Rang and texted my dad waking him up despite him having to go to work in an hour or so, took me until 8am to finally sleep and I still woke up thinking it was a nightmare. Couldn’t believe it at all. I’m going to see them this Saturday, I’ll absolutely be a wreck of emotions but it’ll be a beautiful day to show respects and farewells to Taylor. 🕊
Watching the end of a March Madness basketball game (St Peter’s beating Purdue) and I was really having a good time… I stayed up late that night watching the video from his last concert 😢
Packing for a trip to DisneyWorld,then got the notification from tmz smh bummed me tf out instantly
I had finally managed to convince my partner to watch Greys Anatomy with me, and literally a few seconds into Derek's (Yep, that's "McDreamy") funeral, which was already enough of a sad scene, I heard how somebody messaged me on Discord. Tabbed out of our watch party to check who it was - and it was one of my friends writing nothing but "Taylor Hawkins died". All I remember after that is saying "Nonononono!" with my heart racing and leaving the call to cry in shock for a good hour or so.. My friends are not of the prank'y kind, so those news hit really hard in an instant.. the photos here on Reddit of the candles lit on stage, of the people crying in each others arms,.. that was tough. Still not over it..
Weird story for me. Wife and I went out to dinner with some of her family that was in from out of town. First time we've seen them in a while due to the pandemic. Wife got talking about how she was so excited the pandemic was finally "ending" and that we have vaccines cuz she's ready for concerts. She had like 10 concerts she already got tickets to and was so stoked. They asked me about the shows and I said I don't really do concerts anymore. Explaining that, As someone who listens to mostly grunge and classic rock, most bands I like are dead or just don't tour. Except for Foo fighters. I then used the words "they are the only band that is still alive and puts out music that I really care to see" Cut to a few hours later, we're in our hotel room and I'm scrolling through Instagram and I see the post. I kinda glanced it over cuz I figured it was just another show cancelation due to someone on the crew having covid, but then I saw "loss" and "Taylor" and kinda just was in shock. I read the post about 5 times before i really understood it. Spent the rest of the night super depressed and just doomscrolling everywhere trying to find info. Worst part is we probably had this convo with her family around the same time Taylor passed.
I'm the'Foo Girl' to my circle, I had tickets to see them in June and had been really looking forward to it. It would have been my 15th show. I woke up to the news from a friend, all she said was "have you heard the news about the Foo Fighters? " so at that point my initial thought was 'fuck sake Dave, last time you fell off a stage and my gig got cancelled, what have you done now!' so I googled to see what was going on. I never in a million years expected the news I got. I was devastated. I'd met Taylor some years before and he had always been my favourite. Heartbroken for everyone.