Them Crooked Vultures staged a reunion to honor late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins at his tribute live performance in London.
The supergroup – that includes Foos chief Dave Grohl alongside Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones and multi-instrumentalist Alain Johannes – delivered a three-song set at Wembley Stadium, marking their first efficiency since 2010.
Earlier than they started, a video tribute from Elton John was screened. “The Foo Fighters are one of many bands that all the time give 150 p.c. They by no means give lower than that, nor did Taylor,” John stated. “He performed on my final album, which I used to be so thrilled about, and honored. Don’t ever neglect him.”
That segued into the Vultures’ opening music, a canopy of John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway,” which QOTSA recorded for the 2018 John tribute album Revamp. The mild begin allowed time for loads of smiles throughout the stage between Grohl and Jones, who seemed to be enormously having fun with the second.
“Girls and gents, we’re Them Crooked Vultures, and for proper now I’ll simply depart it at that,” Homme stated earlier than the band broke into its monitor “Gunman.” The singer then launched his colleagues, together with “the one, the one, Admiral John Paul fucking Jones,” who smiled humbly and took a bow.
“All people look to the left, look to the fitting,” Homme continued. “The world’s gonna finish quickly. There’s no time left aside from love, and I fucking love you, and I really like Taylor… and I hope you may have the very best time, the time of your life.” He repeated, “I really like you, Taylor” earlier than the band performed its monitor “Lengthy Sluggish Goodbye.”
The Vultures’ set adopted an brisk set by British band Supergrass, who had been one in all Hawkins’ favourite teams and had toured with the Foos. Earlier than that, Grohl, his daughter Violet and friends delivered a brief set of Jeff Buckley covers, with the Foos chief telling the gang that nobody may sing Buckley’s songs like Violet.
Hawkins and Grohl lived out a childhood rock fantasy in June 2008, staging a half-Zeppelin reunion by recruiting Jones and guitarist Jimmy Web page for renditions of “Rock and Roll” and “Ramble On” at Wembley Stadium. (The primary tune featured Grohl on drums and Hawkins channeling Robert Plant on vocals; the duo traded locations for the second.)
“I bear in mind Taylor as an excellent drummer and a very nice man, however the look on his face when he knew he had nailed the lead vocal for ‘Rock and Roll’ stay onstage at Wembley, with myself, Jimmy Web page and Dave on drums, that can stick with me eternally,” Jones admitted previous to the tribute live performance.
“Wembley was, unquestionably, the spotlight of our 14 years as a band,” Grohl beforehand informed Traditional Rock of the gig. “We could as nicely have landed on fucking Mars. It’s form of like reaching the highest of Mount Everest, besides as an alternative of climbing there you simply kinda wandered onto it and stated, ‘Fuck! We’re actually excessive up right here!’”
In September 2015, Jones and Roger Taylor joined Foo Fighters stay to play Queen and David Bowie’s “Underneath Stress,” with Jones taking part in keys and Hawkins buying and selling off lead vocals with Grohl.
Following Taylor’s loss of life at age 50, Jones posted a tribute on his Fb web page, writing, “A stunning man and an important drummer, we’ll miss you.”
The second Hawkins tribute present is scheduled for Sept. 27 on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles.
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