{"id":549043,"date":"2026-03-18T20:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549043\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:06:17","slug":"dave-grohl-used-music-as-a-crutch-after-taylor-hawkins-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549043\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl Used Music ‘As a Crutch’ After Taylor Hawkins\u2019 Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Grohl<\/a> has finally opened up about the difficulty of coping with the death of his Foo Fighters<\/a> bandmate, Taylor Hawkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Losing Taylor was never meant to be,” Grohl solemnly remarked during a recent interview with Mojo, his first conversation regarding Hawkins since the drummer\u2019s 2022 death. \u201cThat threw our world upside down and made me question everything about life, that it was so\u2026 It was so unfair. I still have a hard time making sense of it.”<\/p>\n

It was March 25, 2022, when Hawkins tragically died in his hotel room<\/a> in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, hours before Foo Fighters were scheduled to perform at the Festival Est\u00e9reo Picnic. While fans mourned the news, the band gathered in Grohl\u2019s hotel room, where they “drank and cried.”<\/p>\n

As the reality set in over the next few days, Grohl searched for anything to take his mind off of Hawkins.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Taylor Hawkins’ Classic Rock Influences: In His Own Words<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think I was afraid of silence, afraid of having to feel,” the frontman admitted. “I could have used a bit more of the silence, a bit more of digging deeper. I never want to say music is a distraction, but I was definitely using it as a crutch for some broken limb.”<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the first time Grohl had dealt with the overwhelming loss of a bandmate. He suffered through a similar tragedy in 1994 when Nirvana<\/a> frontman Kurt Cobain<\/a> took his own life. Foo Fighters\u2019 origins were grown from that pain, and nearly 30 years later the band would again prove to be a heling presence for Grohl.<\/p>\n

“We realized this was something we needed to do,\u201d Grohl explained, noting the need to keep his band going. \u201cBecause it had saved us once before.”<\/p>\n

Dave Grohl Says His \u2018Horizon Is Much Different\u2019 Now<\/p>\n

Rather than disband in the wake of Hawkins\u2019 death, Foo Fighters soldiered on. The band staged massive tribute concerts honoring their late drummer, recorded and released a new album \u2013 2023\u2019s But Here We Are<\/a> \u2013 and recruited Josh Freese<\/a> to man the kit. Though the fit eventually wasn\u2019t right \u2013 Freese was dismissed in 2025 and he later admitted<\/a> the band\u2019s music didn\u2019t really resonate with him \u2013 It showed Foo Fighters were determined to continue. Now, the band has a new drummer, Ilan Rubin<\/a>, and another album, Your Favorite Toy, due in April.<\/p>\n

In the Mojo interview, the typically ebullient Grohl struck a pensive tone as he reflected upon how his life has changed over the last few years.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Top 25 Foo Fighters Songs<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’ve had to re-examine my ambition and intention,” he noted. “A lot of those projects over the years were surface validation to prove that I could do it – not that I needed to do it. I was always the guy who couldn’t sit still. I couldn’t take a vacation. I needed the TV on to put me to sleep. It was the silence – the still – that scared me.<\/p>\n

“My horizon is much different,” Grohl continued. “There will be plenty of things that we’ll do in the next few years that will remind everyone that Foo Fighters love to circle the planet playing rock shows.” The difference now: “Before, I was running on fumes and unleaded gas. Now I’m just burning fucking diesel.”<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters Albums Ranked <\/p>\n

From the one-man-band debut to their sprawling, chart-topping classics, a look at the studio releases by Dave Grohl and band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Corey Irwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl has finally opened up about the difficulty of coping with the death of his Foo Fighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,44],"class_list":["post-549043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}