Foo Fighters confirmed on Saturday that the band will continue following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March, telling fans they’ll be seeing them “soon.”
“As we say goodbye to the hardest and most tragic year our band has ever known, we remember how grateful we are to the people we love and cherish the most, and to the loved ones who are no longer with us,” the post begins.
“Without Taylor, we wouldn’t have become the band we were – and without Taylor, we know we’d be a different band moving forward,” the statement read. “We also know that you, the fans, mean as much to Taylor as he meant to you. And we know that when we see you again — and we will be soon — he will be there in spirit with all of us every night.”
It marks the Dave Grohl-led band’s first public acknowledgment that it will continue without Hawkins, who died in March at 50 when the band was on tour in Columbia.
Hawkins joined the Foo Fighters in 1997 after two years as Alanis Morissette’s drummer, and quickly became an integral part of the rock band’s sound and image. To honor Hawkins, Grohl held two star-studded concerts in London and Los Angeles that featured performances from Morissette, Joan Jett, Travis Barker, Josh Homme, Wolfgang Van Halen, Pink, Miley Cyrus, Stewart Copeland, and Chad Smith as well as members Queen, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Soundgarden, Rush, Metallica, and Black Sabbath.
Read the full Foo Fighters post below.
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