“He was sitting next to Alanis and she said, ‘What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?’ And he said ‘No, baby, I love you.’ I would never do it: Dave Grohl on how the Foo Fighters poached Taylor Hawkins from Alanis Morissette
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Dave Grohl appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Monday night and recalled a pivotal early show played by the Foo Fighters in 1995.
It was a KROQ festival in Los Angeles that also featured Sonic Youth, Radiohead, No Doubt and Garbage. Also present was Alanis Morissette, whose drummer was a 23-year-old named Taylor Hawkins.
“I met Taylor at this show,” Grohl recalled. “Our first record came out around the time Alanis’s record came out. So we were doing a bunch of festivals and radio shows and stuff. But that was the first time I met Taylor, and I was backstage. And here’s this blonde surfer dude. He goes (while shouting), ‘Yo, man, I love your band.’ And I knew in that moment that I was like, “Oh, we’re going to be best friends for the rest of our lives.”
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“And then every time we went to a festival and I saw Alanis Morissette’s band was playing, I was like, ‘Oh my God, that blonde kid is here!’ So I was having a bunch of beers and I found Taylor, and I just found him backstage, and we became so close.
Apparently, Morissette noted that Hawkins and Grohl became best friends. “According to Taylor, (one time after a festival) when they got on the plane, he was sitting next to Alanis and she said, ‘What are you going to do when Dave asks you to be his drummer?’ And he said (lovingly and apologetically), ‘No, baby, I love you. I would never do it. He was our drummer in six months.
“But I thank God for Alanis Morissette because she put together this incredible group and really lifted Taylor up in the world.”
Hawkins joined the Foos in 1999 and remained there until his tragic untimely death in 2022. Being the drummer behind one of THE being a great drummer is difficult, which Hawkins admitted when he and Grohl appeared on the Howard Stern show on Sirius XM in 2021.
“He’s never an asshole about it,” Hawkins said. “But it’s intimidating. When I joined the band I was super intimidated because you know… I met Axl Rose the first time and he said to me ‘how does it feel to be the drummer of the biggest drummer of the 90s’.” And I’m like (squeaks) ‘tough.'”
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