Foo Fighters are carrying on after Taylor Hawkins’s death last year (Picture: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for ABA)
Roger Taylor has refused to confirm or deny if his son Rufus Taylor is going to replace the late Taylor Hawkins as Foo Fighters’drummer.
The late musician – who died last year aged 50 – was a Queen mega-fan and there have been rumours suggesting The Darkness drummer Rufus could take Taylor’s seat behind the kit for Dave Grohl and co.
Playing coy, Bohemian Rhapsody rocker Roger told BBC Radio 2: ‘Well, Rufus is phenomenal.
‘He’s turned into this scary, great drummer with The Darkness […] My son, he’s just annoyingly powerful and he’s become very, very good. I can’t say any more!’
Asked if he could join the band on tour, Roger insisted while his son ‘knows all their stuff’, he isn’t sure what the current situation is.
‘Well, he does play brilliantly with them. He knows all their stuff, knows them all very well,’ he said. ‘He did play Best of You with the Foos, and it was phenomenal at Wembley, and at The Forum in LA. What exactly is happening now, I don’t know.’
Rufus Taylor joined The Darkness in 2015 (Picture: Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images)
Taylor Hawkins and Roger Taylor were good friends (Picture: WireImage)
Taylor and Roger were good pals, and he admitted he still can’t remove his friend’s number from his contacts list.
On his legacy, he added: ‘We’re never going to forget him. I can’t take him out of my phone.’
Meanwhile, Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron recently quashed gossip he would be taking over from Taylor as he described the rumours as ‘false’.
Foo Fighters have recorded their first album since Taylor’s death (Picture: Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)
The Learn to Fly band recently returned with their first new song since Taylor’s death, Rescued, taken from their upcoming album But Here We Are.
The follow-up to 2021’s Medicine at Midnight is described as: ‘A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year.’
The Everlong rockers reunited with producer Greg Kurstin on the 10-track collection, which signals their new era, while a press release adds that the album is ‘informed by decades of maturity and depth’.
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It continues: ‘But Here We Are is the sound of brothers finding refuge in the music that brought them together in the first place 28 years ago, a process that was as therapeutic as it was about a continuation of life.’
Taylor was found dead in his hotel room in Colombia, in March last year, hours before the band was due to play a festival in Bogotá, while no cause of death was given.
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