Them Crooked Vultures briefly reunited through the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday (Sept. 3).
The rock supergroup — that includes Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin‘s John Paul Jones — joined forces onstage for the primary time in additional than 12 years to honor the late Foos drummer, who died in earlier this yr at age 50.
The shock second adopted a video tribute from Elton John, who couldn’t seem on the all-star occasion due to a scheduling battle. Joined by guitarist Alain Johannes, the rock outfit fittingly launched with a canopy of John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway,” adopted by their music “Gunman” and QOTSA’s “Lengthy Sluggish Goodbye.”
“Girls and gents, we’re Them Crooked Vultures,” Homme instructed the group. “For proper now, I’ll simply depart it at that.”
Them Crooked Vultures launched their self-titled debut in 2009 and final carried out collectively the next yr. The band hasn’t launched any new music since then, however Grohl hinted at a attainable reunion in 2019.
“Technically we’re nonetheless a band,” the Foo Fighters frontman instructed The Guardian on the time. “We observe as soon as each decade, and we’re arising on one other decade, aren’t we? I don’t have any official information, however there’s at all times one thing cooking.”
The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance had already featured tons of distinctive pairings at press time, beginning with Liam Gallagher singing Oasis with backing from the Foo Fighters, one other shock reunion from the James Gang, Hawkins’ Chevy Steel and Coattail Riders teaming up with Kesha and Darkness’ Justin Hawkins, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, and way more.
The present launched with Foo Fighters members Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jafee strolling out onstage collectively, adopted by a heartfelt kick-off message from Grohl.
“Tonight we’ve gathered right here to have fun the life, the music and the love of our expensive good friend, our bandmate, our brother, Taylor Hawkins,” the frontman instructed the packed crowd. “We’ve gathered with household and his closest buddies, his musical heroes, and his biggest inspirations to deliver you a huge f—ing night time for a huge f—ing particular person. Sing and dance, and chortle and cry, and f—ing scream and make some f—ing noise so he can hear us proper now.”
Stay protection of the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance started at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT. The live performance is streaming on Paramount+ domestically, Pluto TV internationally, and thru MTV’s YouTube channel.
A second tribute live performance will happen on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles on Sept. 27.
Watch Them Crooked Vultures’ reunite on the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance right here.
