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The archetypal star-studded Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show took spot astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday (Sept. 3), and Travis Barker was 1 of the galore who came retired to celebrate the beingness and legacy of the Foo Fighters drummer. Travis, 46, celebrated Taylor, who passed distant successful March astatine property 50, by playing “The Pretender” with Dave Grohl and the set live. Travis gave an energetic show arsenic helium played straight down Dave, wearing conscionable a beanie and a necklace. The Blink 182 icon danced on arsenic Dave sang aboriginal connected successful the song, intelligibly moved by the infinitesimal and the music.
Blink-182’s Travis Barker and Foo Fighters execute ‘The Pretender’, unrecorded astatine Wembley Stadium#taylorhawkinstribute pic.twitter.com/YOjYmpJ9BD
— Rock Sound (@rocksound) September 3, 2022
Travis gave fans a fewer behind-the-scenes looks via his Instagram Story successful the days starring up to the concert. On Sept. 1, Travis posted a photograph of his dressing country astatine Wembley Stadium. He besides shared a photograph of his drum acceptable during rehearsals. His wife, Kourtney Kardashian, also posted to her (and the authoritative POOSH) Instagram the adventures she had with Travis up of this solemnisation of Hawkins’ life.
Taylor’s decease deed Travis hard. “I don’t person the words,” helium wrote connected Mar. 26, captioning a black-and-white photograph of Taylor relaxing backstage. “Sad to constitute this oregon to ne'er spot you again. I’ll ne'er hide Laguna Beach days erstwhile I was a trash antheral playing successful a punk stone band, and you were playing with Alanis [Morrisette]. You’d travel ticker maine play successful dive bars and beryllium like, ‘kid you’re a star.’ And I thought you were crazy, but you gave maine truthful overmuch anticipation and determination.”
RMV/Shutterstock“Years aboriginal we toured unneurotic with [Blink-182] and Foo’s successful Australia,” continued Barker, “and I person the champion memories of smoking cigarettes successful the restroom of flights we were connected unneurotic and watching your acceptable each night. To accidental I’ll miss you my person isn’t enough. Till the adjacent clip we speech drums and fume successful the boys country … Rest In Peace.”
Broadimage/ShutterstockIn April, Travis celebrated his person and their enslaved by getting a tattoo. “HAWK forever,” helium captioned a assemblage of him hitting up the Shamrock Social Club successful Hollywood with Kourtney and his friend/photographer, Daniel Rojas. Travis had Mark Mahoney, an creator dubbed the “high clergyman of Hollywood tattoo artists,” ink a soaring hawk connected his leg. It was a beauteous tribute to a beloved friend.
Travis is 1 of the featured performers of the London show, which besides included Stewart Copeland, Liam Gallagher, Omar Hakim, Josh Homme, Chrissie Hynde, Brian Johnson, John Paul Jones, KESHA, Geddy Lee, Brian May, Krist Novoselic, Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, Lars Ulrich, and Dave Grohl’s daughter, Violet Grohl. Travis volition besides enactment successful the Sep. 27 amusement astatine The Forum successful Los Angeles. That lineup features appearances from acts similar Sebastian Bach, Geezer Butler, Miley Cyrus, John Paul Jones, Greg Kurstin, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Brian May, Alanis Morissette, Krist Novoselic, P!NK, LeAnn Rimes, Mark Ronson, Gene Simmons and more.
