hey chris liepe here like probably all of you the news of taylor hawkins death
was shocking and extremely saddening dave grohl and the foo fighters have been a huge
influence on me musically over the years and maybe even more than the music
dave's and the band's attitude this just do it just go out there and enjoy yourself uh mindset
to the music and and the whole thing is is so inspiring and i recently finished dave's most
recent book and that just drove so many things about my own journey as a as a musical educator
and musician and vocalist home and i started to see a lot of uh fanfare about taylor hawkins last
performance show up on youtube and i thought i haven't seen it yet i should watch it i really
want to watch it i thought i'd just watch it with you guys you've probably already seen it
but in this particular video we're not going to be analyzing singing technique i'm not going
to be singing i'm just going to notice this performance and appreciate it and be thinking
about how much the foo fighters and taylor and his attitude his musicianship his presence has
influenced me as a musician and person thank you for so many wonderful years of music
taylor hawkins on my drums tonight look at that [ __ ]
taylor david listen yes dan light them up let me see all the people right now uh see
they love you man feel it okay
here's the thing taylor hawkins best [ __ ] drummer in the world taylor hawkins best
[ __ ] singer in the world taylor hawkins is gonna come down and sing a song for you tonight
dave just has this way of even in that massive setting talking to the audience talking to me like
i know him i i found that in his book too i don't know him but he's he's so good at communicating
and you can tell he he has this ability to bond with people and it's it's amazing
that was awesome
you guys want to hear dave grohl play the [ __ ] drums
what magic the best part about getting to be the lead singer of the foo fighters just for one song
as i really do have the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet earth play drums for me
obviously both amazing but the genuine humility in the presence of their awesomeness
is even more amazing cheap but he's worth it
you're gonna get your solo don't you [ __ ] worry
dead girl
gibral i'm not gonna do that to you anymore
you want to play a quick song dave
and i told you i wouldn't talk about singing technique or anything like that but
i just like you to notice and and really internalize the interaction with the audience is
the very first thing the emotional connection is the very first thing that it's the first priority
that's why it's so good it's not good because their voices are good
it's not good because the music is good it's because the engagement is the first thing
now
but i just can't get no relief
he had a great voice
uh
his vocal timbre is really nice his grit's really nice he's a little bit out of breath
but he's so engaging he's having so much fun he just doesn't care i think this
is the greatest lesson that we can learn stop caring about what other people think
be a character be an exaggerated version of yourself
and and love what you're doing in the moment
you've got nobody
foo fighters put on the very best rock shows ever
and it's not because they're the most complicated you think about like watching this and then you
think about watching you know like a live dream theater performance or something like that where
strangely enough the the proficiency and the songwriting and everything is is all about ego for
the musicians on stage whereas i feel like these musicians you know taylor and dave in particular
they're so good and they're so successful in fact they're they're more successful than a lot of the
the the ego driven rock yet there's this there's this humility i think they're more successful
because they're more humble and you can you can relate to what they're doing better it's not all
about what i can play or what i can sing there's warts all over this there's realism all over this
there's connection there's vulnerability there's relatability all over this and i think we miss
that with stuff with music and performances that's designed to be good for goodness sake
it's not as good if it's good for goodness sake hope that makes sense
i just gotta get out of this
fearless fearless
hmm [ __ ] kids
i'm anxious to just continue to see the interaction with
with everything going on through through this drum solo
it's good
i like it
we got more
it's so awesome you can hear them hear the audience singing in the background i
i don't know if they've been prompted to to do that because we can't see but it's so awesome
even with the the craziness that that dave has just displayed he he dropped back into this groove
and they're already singing in the background maybe the background vocalists are helping that
a little bit i don't know dave girl give us more we want more from you you haven't given us enough
because again
notice the the coaxing the natural coaxing that happens as they draw the audience
in at strategic points this is this is way better than
thinking about yourself in the moment thinking about yourself as the performer they are all about
everybody else there so good that's what queen was really good at that too i know i kind of
keep saying this in different ways but it it bears going back and thinking about in multiple ways as
we observe how they perform together especially in light of this being taylor's last performance
also notice that he's leaning on the band taylor is and he's just fine me somebody
he's just doing whatever here facing the audience not concerned about what notes
he's hitting or what he's doing at all he's leaning into the environment that these other
musicians who are spot on he's leaning into that and that's creating the sound
it's not all up to us as musicians to do it if we can lean into the environment
around us including the musicians including the audience we're gonna be better for that
find me somebody
beautiful
can you find me
again it's not about him trying to show how good he is as a singer
it's it's him being himself laura yeah
case and point right he turned it over i mean such a humble
disposition it's about the moment it's about the community created around the music
bye
can you find me
i've been in nowhere near situations like this but in a small way this idea where you're you're
leaning into a groove and just sort of riffing with your voice over and over and over again
and really digging in and kind of getting lost in the repetition of that one phrase especially
when you've got lots of loud music around you and lots of people it is so much fun it is so much fun
i mean like i said not near to the scale of this but maybe you can relate
sir
damn [ __ ] bro just like i had to when chris cornell died i'd tell myself
it's okay to be sad it's okay to to mourn the loss even though i didn't know these people
i i feel a sense of loss and that might seem a little silly uh but it it quickly turns for me
from sadness and and you know this sort of mourning i don't know what other words to use
to a celebration and this was fun it was it was it was neat to be able to celebrate with you guys
as i watch this for the first time and celebrate the energy that the foo fighters and taylor
and dave have have brought to my life the the musical inspiration and and that that go get em
attitude like i talked about at the beginning hope you enjoyed this we'll see you for more