The Foo Fighters introduced Josh Freese could be their new drummer throughout the band’s Making ready Music for Concert events livestream occasion on Sunday. The information follows the sudden and sudden dying of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022.
Main as much as the introduction of Freese throughout the intimate present, introduced in black and white, three different well-known drummers playfully entered the room, teasing that possibly they might be the one to observe in Hawkins’ footsteps.
Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee, Pink Scorching Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Device’s Danny Carey quipped issues like, “Hey, I bought the P.F. Changs,” “There’s a white Mercedes blocking my automobile” and “I groomed your poodles for you,” earlier than a voice off-camera shouted “Um… excuse me?! Can we play a music or two or one thing?”
When the digital camera lower to Freese behind the drumkit, the band kicked off the livestream with songs from their new album However Right here We Are, which drops June 2. Freese beforehand labored with acts like Weapons N’ Roses, A Good Circle, Paramore and 9 Inch Nails.
The group final carried out collectively as a band throughout a pair of tribute live shows that happened in London and Inglewood, California, to honor Hawkins’ reminiscence. The live shows additionally featured performances from Freese, Travis Barker, Kesha, Mark Ronson, John Paul Jones and Liam Gallagher, in addition to particular appearances by Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.
The Foo Fighters are set to renew touring on Could 24 in New Hampshire, after asserting that they might continue on as a band following Hawkins’ dying in March 2022, citing it as “essentially the most troublesome and tragic 12 months our band has ever recognized.”
“Foo Fighters had been fashioned 27 years in the past to signify the therapeutic energy of music and a continuation of life,” the group wrote partly in an announcement shared on social media. “With out Taylor, we by no means would have turn into the band that we had been — and with out Taylor, we all know that we’re going to be a unique band going ahead.”
