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Taylor Hawkins Excited About Tour; The Motel 6s? Not So MuchFoo Fighter pulling double duty as drummer/singer while on road. by Jennifer Vineyard |
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The Coattail Riders' Chris Chaney and Taylor Hawkins (MTV News) |
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AUSTIN, Texas — Life hasn't turned out the way Taylor Hawkins planned. For starters the Foo Fighters drummer didn't plan to insert his own name into his side project, but the record company convinced him that calling it Taylor
Then, after putting together the record with his band (see "Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Gets Raw On Solo LP"), Hawkins didn't plan for the project to go any further. "At first I wasn't sure if I ever wanted to tour," he said. "I just thought, 'I'll make a record,' you know?" Well, that record has turned into a tour — two tours, in fact. Hawkins took his band out in March for a two-week, primarily West Coast jaunt that stopped at South by Southwest, where they played their largest venue so far, the Austin Music Hall. "We've literally been playing to 100 people a night, so we're like, 'Whoa,' right now," Hawkins said. "Every other venue we've played would fit into this one," bassist Chris Chaney said. The tour's second leg starts mid-April and lasts for another two weeks, primarily on the East Coast. But putting both treks together required more than juggling the Coattail Riders' schedule with Hawkins' Foo demands. "I thought, 'Well, if we do tour, I don't want to go up front and sing,' " Hawkins said. "I don't have any aspirations to be a frontman at all. I don't think I'll be very good at it, and I was like, 'I've got to play drums.' " "It's hard to hear another drummer playing your grooves," Chaney explained. "The music's a little difficult," Hawkins said. "We could find a drummer to do it, but it's lots of funny time signatures and stuff like that." Reluctant to hand over the kit, Hawkins finally decided to pull double duty, placing the drums at the front of the stage after deciding against putting them sideways. "But then I couldn't see the guys, and we want to see each other," he said. Once they got their stage placement squared away, Hawkins said, he realized a little too late that "it's hard to sing and play drums at the same time. It's a major challenge." That's why, he said, the Coattails have been learning as they go. "We're acting like it's a baby band, because it is, kind of," Hawkins said. "We're traveling in an RV, we're staying at Motel 6s — my back! When's the last time you slept in a Motel 6 bed? — and every night I've screwed up one thing or another." Which is OK, as the band's goal is "making music and having fun," he conceded. "We're just trying to maybe get this to the point where we can go play clubs when I'm not working [with the Foo Fighters]. We don't even always have to have a record out to play." "There's nothing to get stressed out about on this run," Chaney said. "It's like a family. This is a bunch of bros hanging out. We're past all the drama." As Hawkins said, "We're not trying to take over the world." Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders tour dates:
This report is from MTV News. |
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