The hangover from the final farewell given to Taylow Hawkins, in his second tribute last week, has many bands talking about what the Foo Fighters drummer meant to them. Or even for the future of his band, as is the case of the return to the stage of the group Jane’s Addiction.
Yesterday they kicked off the American Airlines Center of Dallas on his tour with smashing pumpkins and many of the fans who will see them for this North American tour would have to give a “thank you” to Taylos Hawkins.
The tour is special because bassist Eric Avery has been back with the band since 2010, although the one who will not play is Dave Navarro because he continues to have problems related to Covid. He will be replaced by guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen. And what does Hawkins do in this story? Well he was a big fan of the band, and he decided to call Avery that he had commented on several youtube videos about how he felt thisr “pushing a very large rock up a hill” and that the operation of the band was not going as he expected. All this did not sit well, and especially to Dave Navarro.
The countdown begins… see you on the road next week! @SmashingPumpkin @poppy @megmyers pic.twitter.com/MhLDXcGSGX
— Jane’s Addiction (@janesaddiction) September 20, 2022
Taylor called him and Avery says it was a call “totally unexpected”. He told her that Perry Farrell wanted to get the band back together to play several Lollapaloozas. And that they wanted to have him, although there were a series of misunderstandings until Avery spoke on the phone with the band’s vocalist: “Perry and I communicated on the phone and I was able to tell him some things that took many years to arrive”Avery said. “We ended up in a really cool place at the end of a 40-minute phone call, and we kind of buried the hatchet. It was just two grown men coming to a resolution about things.”
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The “totally unexpected” call from Taylor Hawkins that was key in the reunion of this historic band