The Red Hot Chili Peppers paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans on Sunday, while frontman Dave Grohl, Hawkins’ widow Alison and other Foo Fighters members watched from the wings, according to reports at nola .com and social media.
Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, a close friend of Hawkins, wrote “Taylor” on his bass drum, surrounded by a hawk-like silhouette of a hawk.
Foo Fighters was originally scheduled to head the Jazz Fest, but canceled all tour dates after Hawkins’ death on March 25. Grohl’s presence in the city over the weekend sparked baseless rumors that he might perform. That didn’t happen, but at the end of the band’s 90-minute set, Smith went to the front of the stage, picked up the microphone, and said, “We love Foo Fighters and we love our brother Taylor Hawkins. It means a lot to us that we can play for them. “
He then led the crowd, chanting “We love you, Taylor!”
During the set just before the Peppers, Ivan Neville’s band Dumpstaphunk played Foo Fighters’ hit “Best of You” as a tribute.
Grohl was also in the City Storage Hall on Saturday for the late-night Midnight Preserves show, during which Who’s Pete Townshend played a few songs.
A few days before the show, the Peppers called their set a celebration of Hawkins’ life. Smith posted a touching video in honor of their time together a few days after Hawkins’ death.
“We’re taking Alison, his wife, with us, and it’s going to be a holiday,” Smith told Billboard. “It simply came to our notice then. She doesn’t want it to be anything but: “Let’s celebrate the music, let’s celebrate our friends, let’s celebrate Taylor. This is what he would like and would be very happy that you play and he would like this to be just a positive experience. ‘ So we will do all this and she will be a part of it and it is a great honor for me to be able to do this with her. … We will play our hearts. ”
The cause of Hawkins’ death has not been officially determined, although medical officials in Colombia, where he died before the band went to a festival, said there were many drugs in his system at the time of his death.
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