A brand new documentary titled Let There Be Drums!, out on Oct. 28, options the final filmed interview from late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. A trailer was simply launched yesterday wherein there’s a clip of Hawkins saying that the “second I sat on the drums, it was like a bolt of lightning went by means of my physique and I’ll always remember that day.”
The movie, from Greenwich Leisure, was directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Useless drummer Invoice Kreutzmann, and includes a who’s who of legendary beat makers. Along with the elder Kreutzmann and fellow Grateful Useless percussionist Mickey Hart, members embrace Chad Smith of Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Jane’s Dependancy’s Stephen Perkins, ex-Weapons N Roses drummer Matt Sorum, No Doubt’s Adrian Younger, Tre Cool of Inexperienced Day and Primus’ Jay Lane, amongst others.
The documentary goals to be an “examination into the important position drumming performs in nice bands and the way music passes from technology to technology,” utilizing a mixed 70 years of examples.
Along with interviews, producers have gathered a set of uncommon footage, together with Keith Moon in outtakes from The Youngsters Are Alright, the Who’s documentary from 1979 in addition to late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham on the roles of fatherhood amid being a musician (his son Jason now sits in for him on the equipment for numerous events with the surviving members of the band). There are additionally snapshots of the abilities earlier than they made it huge, like Ringo Starr posing along with his drum equipment as a teen and No Doubt’s Younger doing a basement present earlier than that band went on to be a Prime 40 hitmaker.
