Whereas discussing his upcoming solo album (which options late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on the observe “Angels Like You”) on a brand new episode of the podcast Lipps Service, The Struts frontman Luke Spiller opened up the final time he noticed Hawkins earlier than his loss of life in 2022.
“Simply going again simply to the entire document itself, I bear in mind my final interplay with Taylor earlier than he went on that final tour of his. I used to be round his home and we had been taking part in and rehearsing for – we had been meant to do a bunch of, form of, reveals the place we had been going to be taking part in Queen and whatnot – and I had a number of demos from this album,” Spiller mentioned earlier than including that Hawkins left him with some extraordinarily form phrases of encouragement.
“I performed him a observe known as ‘If This Isn’t Love.’ And it received from the verse after which to the refrain and he stopped [it]. He stopped and he was like, ‘Luke, Luke, Luke.’ And I used to be like, ‘What?’ And he was like, ‘I simply should say – You realize I really like you. You realize I really like the band and all the pieces. However this…’ He was like, ‘That is the perfect factor I’ve ever heard you do.’
“It’s one among [my favorite songs on the record] for, you understand, not simply that motive, however once more he was talking my language and fully understanding the place I used to be coming from. He was like, ‘It’s like Queen, ‘The Sport’ period.’”
(Transcribed by AlternativeNation)
