Foo Fighters unveil new drummer Josh Freese – Fakazakamp

Foo Fighters unveiled their new drummer, Josh Freese, at their ‘Foo Fighters: Making ready Music For Live shows’ livestream on Sunday (21.05.23).

The 50-year-old session drummer will carry out with Dave Grohl and co within the place of late drummer Taylor Hawkins – who tragically died final yr aged 50 – on their upcoming tour.

Josh is thought for taking part in for the likes of Weapons N’ Roses, 9 Inch Nails and Paramore.

He was amongst a number of drummers to pay tribute to Taylor at a pair of tribute live shows in Los Angeles and London.

The ‘Be taught to Fly’ rockers’ tour kicks off on Might 24 in New Hampshire.

The affirmation comes after Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and The Darkness’ Rufus Taylor have been rumoured to be taking the place.

Taylor was discovered lifeless in his lodge room in Colombia, in March 2022, hours earlier than the band was because of play a pageant in Bogotá.

The Foos have devoted their upcoming album to Taylor, and Dave’s late mom Virginia Hanlon Grohl.

The ‘Stroll’ rockers will launch ‘However Right here We Are’ on June 2, and so they’ve shared that the file is in honour of their beloved bandmate, and the frontman’s dad or mum, who handed away the identical yr.

Sharing the minimalist white cassette and album cowl for the LP, which is designed by Morning Breath INC, the Grammy winning-group tweeted the album dedication: “For Virginia and Taylor.”

The follow-up to 2021’s ‘Drugs at Midnight’ is described as: “A brutally trustworthy and emotionally uncooked response to every part Foo Fighters endured during the last yr.”

In a letter to followers, the ‘Better of You’ hitmakers vowed to be “a special band going ahead” following the devastating lack of Taylor.

They wrote: “As we are saying goodbye to essentially the most troublesome and tragic yr that our band has ever recognized, we’re reminded of how grateful we’re for the people who we love and cherish most, and for the family members who’re not with us.

“Foo Fighters have been shaped 27 years in the past to symbolize the therapeutic energy of music and a continuation of life. And for the previous 27 years our followers have constructed a worldwide neighborhood, a loyal assist system that has helped us all get via the darkest of occasions collectively. A spot to share our pleasure and our ache, our hopes and fears, and to hitch in a refrain of life collectively via music. With out Taylor, we by no means would have turn into the band that we have been — and with out Taylor, we all know that we will be a special band going ahead.

“We additionally know that you just, the followers, meant as a lot to Taylor as he meant to you and we all know that after we see you once more — and we are going to quickly — he’ll be there in spirit with all of us each evening.”