Taylor Hawkins Final Filmed Interview On Forthcoming Drummer Documentary

Taylor Hawkins' final filmed appearance will feature in the forthcoming documentary, Let There Be Drums! on Prime Video and Apple TV+ on 28 October.

Let There Be Drums! is directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of The Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, who has a primary role in the documentary. Other drumming heroes who star include The Beatles legend Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland from The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, Matt Sorum from Guns' N' Roses, Green Day's Tré Cool, and more.

Justin Kreutzmann's mission behind the documentary is finding the answer to questions that have followed him throughout his life, such as, "Are drummers born that way or do they become that way? Does the urge to create rhythm and be an integral part of a band emanate from something within - or is it learned?"

In a Consequence Of Sound interview, Justin Kreutzmann revealed his first musical experience with the late Foo Fighters drummer. "For some reason, I was at a film shoot on the old Spahn Ranch. It was a 60s-type concert set up, so they got various bands to play live so they could film people dancing. I'm watching, and the band on stage goes into The Faces' Stay With Me, and the drummer just jumped out at me. I turned to my friend and said, 'That's a great fucking drummer,'" he said. 

Kreutzmann returned to his car beside a '70s-looking van with the name Chevy Metal painted on - Hawkins' other band - where he put two and two together. "That was how I first experienced Taylor Hawkins, blown away by his drumming and didn't even know it was him. When I met him, he was the sweetest guy. So down to earth and such a music fan. You can't help but love the guy. When we were doing the interview for the movie, it was Taylor asking me about growing up in the Dead world that helped shape the direction of the Let There Be Drums!"

According to Andrew Watt, the producer of the latest Ozzy Osbourne album, Patient Number 9, on which the Foo Fighters drummer featured, there's unreleased Taylor Hawkins music we could hear soon. Weeks before his tragic death, Foo Fighters played a surreal one-off concert at Geelong's GMHBA Stadium, a truly incredible show after two years of misery. The Music wrote, "We have all been deprived of experiences like this for so long, and we stand tonight united in joy, and in hope, and in our love for music. Rock'n'roll is back, and so is Victoria."

Check out the Let There Be Drums! trailer below.