{"id":949737,"date":"2026-10-28T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949737\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:36:17","slug":"he-was-sitting-next-to-alanis-and-she-said-what-are-you-going-to-do-when-dave-asks-you-to-be-his-drummer-and-he-said-nope-baby-i-love-you-i-would-never-dave-grohl-on-how-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949737\/","title":{"rendered":"“He was sitting next to Alanis, and she said, \u2018What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?\u2019 And he said ‘Nope, baby, I love you. I would never'”: Dave Grohl on how the Foo Fighters poached Taylor Hawkins from Alanis Morissette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Grohl<\/a> appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show on Monday night and recalled a pivotal early show the Foo Fighters<\/a> played back in 1995.<\/p>\n

This was a KROQ festival in Los Angeles that also had the likes of Sonic Youth, Radiohead<\/a>, No Doubt and Garbage on the bill. Also present was Alanis Morissette, whose drummer was a 23-year-old fellow called Taylor Hawkins.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI met Taylor at that show,\u201d Grohl remembered. \u201cOur first record came out around the time Alanis\u2019s first record came out. So we were doing a bunch of those festivals and radio shows and things. But that was the first time I met Taylor, and I was backstage. And here comes this blonde surfer dude. He\u2019s like [all shouty] \u2018Yo, dude, I love your band.\u2019 And I knew right then I was like, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re gonna be best friends for the rest of our lives.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd then every time we went to a festival, and I saw that Alanis Morissette\u2019s band was playing, I\u2019d think, \u2018Oh my God, that blonde kid is here!\u2019 So I\u2019d grab a bunch of beers and I\u2019d find Taylor, and I\u2019d just find him backstage, and we became so close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently Morissette noted that Hawkins and Grohl were becoming best buddies. \u201cAccording to Taylor, [one time after a festival] when they got on their flight, he was sitting next to Alanis, and she said, \u2018What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?\u2019 And he said [lovingly and apologetic] ‘Nope, baby, I love you. I would never.’ He was our drummer like in six months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I thank God for Alanis Morissette because she put that amazing band together and really brought Taylor up in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawkins joined the Foos in 1999 and stayed until his tragic early death in 2022. Being the drummer behind one of the great drummers is hard, something that Hawkins admitted when he and Grohl appeared on the Howard Stern show on Sirius XM in 2021.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s never a dick about it,\u201d said Hawkins. \u201cBut it\u2019s intimidating. When I joined the band I was super-intimidated because you know\u2026 I met Axl Rose the first time and he said \u2018what\u2019s it like being the drummer for the greatest drummer of the 1990s.\u2019 And I\u2019m like [winces] \u2018hard.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Dave Grohl appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-949737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}