The Chad Smith Show with Taylor Hawkins (2009 - Part 1 of 7)

[@JJnuggetDoe]

Man... he seemed like such a funny, humble and sweet man. So modest about his natural talent & love for music. RIP Taylor Hawkins

[@pepper1188]

Taylor such a beautiful talented man, and it's kind of random ,but I always loved how he pulls his feet up on the couch or chairs for interviews... he's just so comfortable in his space... What a loss🙏

[@angeladuncan3785]

Taylor is such a good guy my heart goes out to his wife and kids and especially Dave he truly lost his brother/best friend

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Some brothers and sisters we're born with, but for the very lucky few of us, we find cosmic siblings along the way amongst the friends we make on our journey thru life -- Taylor and Dave definitely had that kind of magic relationship!!

[@angeladuncan3785]

@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown absolutely 🤘🏾

[@willemvd80]

RIP Taylor - the world's worse off without your talent :'(

[@sundaygurrrl]

This was so enjoyable, and all the more surreal that he is gone. Just an absolutely genuine, sweet man. Requiescat

[@lillinsey100]

Taylor has such a sweet and honest demeanor~what an incredibly special soul for this world to lose. ❤️ love you Taylor

[@JojoStatic]

Right? I aspire to be as nice as Taylor in my life

[@KMWeir]

Taylor seems so authentic. Such a talented and beautiful soul. Love this! The first song my dad taught me on drums was Honkey Tonk Woman. I played it. And I was hooked. Nothing like drumming!!!

[@mogala3068]

It's still hard to think of Taylor as being somewhere else other than behind his drum kit. His love for his kids is what I truly admired about him. Seeing them in Council Bluffs, backed in the tour buses, playing Frisbee with his kids and just goofing around. That impressed me so much and how he'd take Annabelle to morning shows at KRUQ (sp?) and call her his partner in crime for the day. The love he had for his family....it's a tough year. Real tough. Glad I got to go to so many shows. Foo Fighters mean the world to so many and God bless them. God bless Allison and just keep those great memories alive. Learn To Fly video----c'mon...tooo damn funny. Love ya Taylor.

[@averyetvspecial1487]

My favorite story Chad has told about him is when he asked Taylor to be the godfather to his son Beckett, Taylor asked “what do I have to do?” and Chad shrugged “nothing” and Taylor grinned “I can do that”

[@lillinsey100]

i absolutely adored Taylor, as did most, still cannot believe he’s gone. Rest in Peace Taylor ❤️ you will not be forgotten.

[@kimberleawilson3545]

So much talent sitting on that set. Love seeing these candid genuine conversations. Taylor’s smile and talent lighting up the room. Thank you for sharing this time spent with him. Heartbreaking, seeing how full of life he was, with so much more to do. ❤️

[@stewiemcfluffy1223]

Your face and radiant smile will continue to brighten up my day every time I see you at Guitar Center, not only guarding our future generations arsenal of creativity and self-expression, but also looking damn good doing so in your amazing pants! Fly high my friend 🙌

[@cathybrunson7631]

Way too young, so much talent, you’re a legend Taylor. So nice and so kind, so genuine. RIP Taylor Hawkins

[@davidnorthern9743]

We all feel like we're not good enough sometimes. Take care of yourselves, and each other. RIP

[@klmn14658]

golllllyyy....I love this cat and will remember him as such a sweet gorgeous charming person. My heart hurts...keep drumming Taylor. If there is a heaven... YOU are there for sure!!!!

[@chicken8044]

I love this guy’s just talking about what they love and know.

[@rockwallaby23]

These guys are so interesting to listen to. Really down to earth. Sucks so bad about Taylor, so missed.

[@bytorsnowdog5885]

R.I.P. He seemed to be an enthusiastic light, no matter who or where the setting. Way too soon.

[@j8oxas]

what a beautiful man he was, RIP Taylor, your passing makes me so sad, but thank you xx

[@TaejunHong]

rest in peace taylor. miss you so much already.

[@margaretmacinnes1519]

What a wonderful interview discussion amongst 4 grown ass beyond gifted drummers. Brilliant quick witted articulate musicians. Magic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Made my day ♥️

[@T.E.P..]

every since he was a part of the Dennis Wilson remastered albums ... I got excited to learn more about him and he was not easily satisfied ... he went for the vision and sounds in his mind ... will never forget you Taylor

[@adrenaline33867]

The last minute of this recording is so great. What a cool dude.

[@sappermade6012]

I’m a drummer it’s been like prob 40 yrs. I’m 50 now. It’s something special when drummers get together and talk and hang and I love it

[@blakemaxfield4267]

As a drummer I love this and I'll miss Taylor

[@makingwaves68]

There goes my hero

[@jadejj7948]

Watch him as he goes

[@makingwaves68]

@@jadejj7948 It's gut wrenching.

[@jadejj7948]

@@makingwaves68 I know I'm still in shock 😰

[@mattryan6886]

This video had me all over with my emotions all over the place. Lots of great advice for players new and old. I was self taught drummer similar to Taylor. I would have loved proper lessons unfortunately they were just not easily accessible where I grew up. Today with KZbin I’m going back to basics and trying to build and grow my skills as a musician.I want to learn absolutely as much as I can and constantly grow more and evolve my playing and eventually find MY SOUND!!! Not Neil Peart,Taylor Hawkins, Chad Smith Matt’s sound. When I have the ah ha 💡 discovery moment I’m going to shout it from the roof tops. Drums and music is for me when I’m the absolute happiest and the thing I love above all else. W/o music life would be very bland and nowhere near as good as it can be. Josh Homme said if you expect anything from music you expect too much. If no one heard me play drums of if the whole world heard me I would feel the same way about it. Obviously the dream is to make living from music or around it. I want my creativity to shine through and maybe help or touch others the way I have been effected and changed by the joyful noise of those who came before me and those in the future

[@robertbobin5053]

Save much time. TAKE LESSONS!

[@jadejj7948]

Also Taylor Hawkins you will be missed by many people 😢 I just still can't seem to accept the fact he is gone forever 💔 😔

[@robertbobin5053]

No one is gone "forever". We will ALL stand before Christ, and give an account of our lives. Without accepting Christ as Savior, there is ONLY eternal hell.

[@powellrandolph]

I love this candid conversation! It’s great stuff! Love to see more of this kind of thing. Man I miss Taylor! Wish I could have met him. Seems like a great guy.

[@rafaelelchingon9040]

you've always been a drummer brother rest in peace (1972-2022) Thanks You Taylor Hawkins 🕊️🕊️😔

[@DesignRhythm]

So strange, even at 50 he was so youthful.. damn still in shock. His energy seems irreplaceable in FF.

[@markyncole]

He's 36 or 37 here,not 50

[@Ramparts4]

I'm very much afraid that this is the end of Foo Fighters. I hope not, of course.

[@Maureen2656]

@@markyncole True. But at 50 he was still like this. Full of energy, full of life. That smile always there.

[@cerclesvicieux]

This is just great all around advice for every muscian or aspiring muscian of any intstrument.

[@MS-gj7ni]

What a wonderful post from all the greats thank you

[@shana4503]

gah taylor was such a cool guy so sad he is gone bless his soul

[@ConnWilliams]

Where do we find the other six parts of this brilliant chat

[@drummer78]

He was obviously a great drummer and big rock music fan. I relate to him because we are roughly the same age and grew up with similar music interests. For instance, Taylor once said U2’s Larry Mullen Jr. and various 80’s pop drummers were big influences on him (as well as the heavy hitters like Roger Taylor, Stewart Copeland and Neil Peart). I also feel like Taylor was the type of guy I could hang with and talk music. I’m sad his wife, children and family no longer have their loved one around.

[@jd0879]

I remember watching the full 1.5 hour show when it was first released. When are you uploading 2 - 7?

[@jeh7079]

Loved this, rip Taylor

[@justhadrums]

I remember thinking this might be awkward with Taylor and Gary Novak because of the Alanis connection but it wasn't at all, it was a lovefest actually. They asked Taylor in MD years ago what he thought of Gary and he said the guy can play circles around me but I just wanted to join a band.

[@kickstar1]

Yeah I saw Novak play with Jazz guy Eric Marienthal in a super small club. He was a next level player in the Colaiuta range. Love how Hawkins wasn't threatened by that but just acknowledged it. Such a loss.

[@ebbertgepner]

Gary was long time roommates with Chris Chaney(bass player with Alanis) to which Gary has known Taylor a long time since the beginning of Taylor playing with Alanis. They were really good friends!!

[@TubeSolePursuit]

Thanks for re-uploading this! It’s awesome.

[@Vigilant_Guardian]

thanks for re-posting...

[@thomasking5025]

Love you taylor. Rip. Dude we would've gotten along. And been best friends. We were the same.

[@fabianodrumcover2505]

Taylor is irreplaceable, but Chad would be the best guy for it!!! A dream!!

[@robertgwysong7822]

Great session - so relevant to this day gentlemen. He's right - Dennis Chambers Whips!

[@corriewoodland1529]

Best line for Drummers... "DONT THINK"

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

So strange for The Foos to lose Taylor not six months after The Stones lost Watts -- how heartbreaking and devastating it must be for Dave to have to mourn the loss of another bandmate (Pat Smear for the third time around)! I just watched an amazing and emotion-stirring live tribute version of The Smiths' "There Is A Light..." done by Johnny Marr on a recent BBC-6 performance dedicated to Taylor! Speaking of the late Charlie Watts, I had a similar experience to Taylor's the first time I got behind a drum-kit. Now, I'm not a professional drummer or musician of any kind (although I am a rabid music fan of many genres and did have Rock & Roll dreams as a kid but never put the sweat equity needed into making those dreams manifest into reality), but one summer in the late '90s when I was in my mid to late 20s (Taylor and I are almost the same age, by the way -- myself older than him by about three months), I was at a day-time house party being held by musician friends of a friend and then-co-worker of mine (he was the head chef/kitchen-mgr., and I was the dishwasher/prep-cook, of a now-long-defunct restaurant/bar/roadhouse local to me, and his musician friends were food-service colleagues of his at previous jobs he'd worked at). They were jamming in their spacious kitchen/dining room which had an upright piano against one wall and a basic 6-pc. drum-set (bass, tom, snare, cymbal, hi-hat, and cowbell) in the middle of the floor. During one of several breaks between sets, when the real musicians were elsewhere, I got a wild hair up my ass and sat down behind the kit and just started doing a basic beat while randomly hitting the various pieces of the kit (cowbell included), savant-like, eventually settling on a pattern that sounded very familiar, but I annoyingly couldn't quite place it. After awhile, though, I figured it out: "Honkey Tonk Women" by The Stones!!!

[@3carree]

Thank you for Sharing. This is Great!

[@RedMistCDN]

I always thought Taylor Hawkins looked like a drummer. RIP

[@kevinteeples5145]

I like at the end when he’s like your listening to other drummer and hear yourself in the studio and think I really suck. Lol

[@devinnore]

Wheres part 2-7? Cant find them

[@LinYouToo]

2:41 Chad even plays the armchairs with style 🥁

[@allanshuford9960]

Can you post part 2?

[@derrickperez7490]

Taylors a natural, intuitive...i relate..I'm same way, seems normal to me, and I taught my self on guitar drums and bass before the internet I'm still learning drums the most.. and everyones always saying how good I am but like Taylor, it's the perfectionists In the artists/musicians that makes us strive to be better so we are never completely feel like we are that great cuz there's always room to improve. Chad Smith is one of my favorites drummers along with Taylor and Dave of course but the most underrated drummer Ive to get credit it's Jose Pasillas from the band incubus. You wanna watch a gold rock show type in incubus alive at red rocks 2004!!! You won't regret it.

[@1035pm]

That is so good to hear about over thinking when when playing and speeding up or slowing down depending, Iv always thought I was a shit drummer because of that very fact.

[@Jason-tb6xp]

So where is parts 2 to 7? Don't just upload one!

[@Jennifer-Lee]

💔💛😇 Rest Easy TH! 💛

[@SuperQdaddy]

cool..keeping it real n fun..be good at what u love

[@jacobdevine8448]

that was great

[@johnhenry3030]

Will Farrell is such a method actor

[@joshsidhu6446]

Part 2 and the rest please

[@drumchannel]

Part 2 through 7 are available for members on DrumChannel.com: www.drumchannel.com/originals/

[@PATMAN0910]

taylor had a great life! may he rip.

[@suminshizzles6951]

I came to the same conclusion. Playing guitar is going to take a long time. Started when i was in my late teens. Did not give it as much attention as i should if i wanted to play it. I had no direction. No instruction. I knew and taught myself all the chords. Started doing scales but no music came out. It was just dry stuff. I wanted to play music but i could not let it out with the guitar in a way i heard it in my head. Then i broke my picky fretting picky finger. That pretty much put a stop to it. 30 years later and covid hits the world. I give guitar another go during lockdown. I vowed to take it serious this time and put time in. Still not happy with nothing coming out of me otehr than the same old shit noodlign stuff i knew and made up. Even sticking to a practice routine using justin here on youtube i felt like prpgress was slow and i did not have what it takes. I also did not want to spend decades on it before i got anywhere. It is not that i was inpatient. It just took too damn long. Then tayor dies. Shit. I am getting old now. I said i would try drums. I promised myself and taylor i would give it a good go. Bought a cheat ass almost toy like electric kit. I knew that i wanted to continue doing this when i managed to hold down the standard rock beat with kick on 1 and 3. with the snare in between Whoa. I am making music and holding down a beat. It was almost as if i was in some meditative state with the beat just going and going. I tried hard to stick to the click track. I was hooked. This kit had to go and i needed something more responsive as it was missing notes on the high hat. Cant play like that. So i bought a used alesis command mesh that was in very good condition.. I practice at least an hour a day and now am making progress that i can see, hear and feel. I am a drummer now and i got my start the day taylor died. I am 52 years old. It is never too late to start.

[@rloasby]

Wow, Taylor's in jeans!

[@gazpearce3700]

Rip legend

[@squamishfish]

Taylor talked about Peart , Neil never stopped learning he took lessons later in his life

[@flstffatboy3910]

That was so cool 😎

[@ebbertgepner]

Any links to the other 6 videos?

[@drumchannel]

They're all available for streaming for members on DrumChannel.com!

[@stephencawker1565]

DRummer Stuff..101..lmao...love it...im Red..and Beers..

[@redscooter99h]

who is the drummer with the bandana ?

[@sword649]

If Taylor grew a face mullet he'd look like Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Taylor Cool Hand Luke!

[@jordonlane7120]

Dead good video.

[@bigfootpegrande]

^^^^CLick and subs for some varied but always amazing drummer and music: Cobham, Williams, Bozzio, Blakey, Nenê, Bruford, they are all there... Enjoy.

[@blitzblisser5677]

I wonder if they're going to get a new Drummer? I've been trying to play Everlong, and it is not easy! LOL it makes my arms sore as fuck! I believe I'm finally getting it though, and I also noticed I think it's making me healthier? It's a little different when you're 44. Drums could save my life!?

[@billydamnit]

Good question. I hope so

[@drummerKev]

No disrespect intended with all my following statements. But I’ve always considered Chad Smith a very average drummer at best. Taylor Hawkins (as humble as he always was like this video for example) is one of the greats! He could play complex beats with such ease, and he played everything with such energy no matter how long the concert!

[@AvsFan32]

Interesting. I agree plus just very different stlyes

[@dean36beddoe1973]

Where can you see the full episode please

[@Vaecord91]

Will Farrell was soo young then lol

[@jadejj7948]

😂😂😂

[@eugeniovasquez3780]

Music feels good until it becomes business 😌

[@SandieCastaneda]

My favorite humans*

[@malous709]

🥁TH 💔rip

[@vickyriley1810]

💔🦅

[@lisaheidman3296]

yay

[@mmv4920]

♥️

[@jamieharr4459]

Will Farrell is so method when he plays Chad Smith. You can hardly tell it's him but for that dumb look on his face...

[@joshk2879]

Anybody see WILL FERRIL in a young Mr. CHAD Smith?!? I think they were separated at birth..🤟😁🤟

[@vincentrobinson9325]

🤘😭

[@gregthomas1323]

At least Rufus Tiger Taylor is taking over drums for Foo Fighters. Hawkins mentored him. ❤️ dang, Is that Chad or Will Farrel ?

[@TheMusicalElitist]

WTF?????

[@gregthomas1323]

@@TheMusicalElitist Yep Rolling Stone broke the story. Rufus Tiger Taylor is the new Foo drummer starting January 2023 for World Tour.

[@squinkque]

That would be very cool. I saw the show just last night where they call Rufus up onto stage and I thought man, they should get that guy to take over, but then I thought he's probably otherwise engaged, he's too good.

[@sspbrazil]

Only Gary Novak is comfortable with his balding head. Come on Chad and Stephen take the baseball cap and durag.

[@jadejj7948]

When did Will Ferrell start playing the drums? Lmao 🤣 I know Chad gets tired of hearing this but its funny how they look so much alike and not even related 😂

[@morbidmanmusic]

Heignseight is so weird. It's clearer now, why things happened.

[@jovanreid6782]

Do you mean hindsight? And if so, what's clearer now because of this video? Because I'm not seeing the correlation I think you're trying to imply.

[@KussePikken666]

ONE LESSON HERE. STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM DRUGS!

[@MCB-ls6nw]

Gary>other 3

[@miles-178]

absolutely !!!! the reason am watching this after 10 years again

[@jovanreid6782]

That may be but he's the only one out of the 4 of them that I don't listen to and had to Google.

[@shadrach6299]

Taylor? Dentures?

[@i.vuk1668]

I didn't know Taylor was on drugs.

[@jovanreid6782]

What does that have to do with this video?

[@i.vuk1668]

@@jovanreid6782 well it has to do with the fact that Taylor literally died from an overdose a week ago

[@jovanreid6782]

@@i.vuk1668 Actually, an overdose has not been confirmed, only that ten different controlled substances was in his system, and it hasn't even been confirmed that he took a dangerous or fatal amount of any one of those substances. Therefore, saying that Taylor Hawkins died of an overdose is at this juncture conjecture. That said, this video is document of a conversation between four legendary drummers having an in-depth conversation about their craft. That one of those drummers happened to have passed away, and that the cause of death might have been drug related, is no reason to open that can of worms here. If you ask me, the drug conversation doesn't belong in this space at all... unless of course you've got a judgmental agenda up your sleeve... in which case I'd recommend you search for the latest Ted Nugent rant, if you're looking to focus on negativity as a way of remembrance.

[@jessferrell1715]

@@jovanreid6782 I couldn’t have said it any better!! People need to have respect and not jump to conclusions.