Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron has denied reviews that he’s planning to interchange Taylor Hawkins on drums with the Foo Fighters.
It comes after The Solar reported earlier this month that the sticksman and former Angels & Airwaves drummer Atom Willard have been being lined up for the band’s summer season dates within the US and Canada.
A supply is claimed to have instructed the tabloid: “The Foos have been working with numerous musicians near Taylor and the band over the previous few months. Matt and Atom are entrance runners to drum on the gigs, the primary of which is in Might.
“Primarily it will likely be Matt however Atom can be on rotation with him. They’ve each been rehearsing at Studio 606, the Foos’ studio.”
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However Cameron final night time (March 25) denied that he was becoming a member of the band on his Instagram Story web page.
“FYI the web rumours are false, I haven’t joined the Foos,” he wrote.
Willard is but to touch upon the hypothesis and the Foo Fighters haven’t made any official assertion.
Cameron beforehand performed with the band throughout their Taylor Hawkins tribute gig in LA final yr alongside Pat Smear, Kim Thayil and The Fairly Reckless’ Taylor Momsen.
Foo Fighters are attributable to make their dwell return this yr with a run of US headline reveals and summer season pageant appearances together with Boston Calling, Sonic Temple, Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park, and Bonnaroo.
The band confirmed on New Yr’s Eve 2022 that they might be persevering with to tour with out Hawkins.
“With out Taylor, we by no means would have turn out to be the band that we have been – and with out Taylor, we all know that we’re going to be a unique band going ahead,” a press release on social media learn.
In the meantime, a bunch of 100 drummers carried out Foo Fighters’ ‘My Hero’ in tribute to Hawkins earlier this week forward of the anniversary of the late drummer’s loss of life yesterday (March 25). Hawkins was discovered lifeless in a resort room in Bogota, Colombia aged 50.
