Jane’s Habit guitarist Dave Navarro has spoken about his grief and ache following the lack of his pal Taylor Hawkins, the overdue Foo Opponents drummer, and published that he, Hawkins, and AC/DC bassist Chris Chaney had recorded an album in combination prior to the drummer’s passing.
In September ’21, Navarro, Hawkins and Chaney unveiled their new band, NHC, and shared two songs, prog-tinged alt.rocker Feed The Merciless, and the extra melancholic and melodic Higher Transfer On. Each songs featured Hawkins on lead vocals.
The band carried out in combination onstage publicly for the primary time at Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Competition Encore weekend on October 2, 2021, and later launched a efficiency video of Lazy Eyes, shot on the Troubadour membership in Los Angeles on November 23, 2021, which additionally featured Foo Opponents’ Pat Smear on guitar.
NHC carried on writing and recording in combination all the way through the Covid pandemic, and Dave Navarro described the undertaking as “an awakening of the whole lot [he] liked about enjoying.”
In an upcoming interview with Guitar Global, the guitarist unearths that NHC had in fact completed their debut album, when the information of Hawkins’ dying broke on March 25, 2022.
“We blended and mastered it after which, we misplaced Taylor,” he says. “That was once in the course of Covid, and it was once in fact very painful for me to pick out up the guitar after that.”
“I’m going to be fair – I did not pick out up the guitar for approximately a 12 months,” he continues. “And since he [Taylor Hawkins] was once such an inspiring artist… Now not simplest was once he a gorgeous drummer, however he was once additionally an ideal songwriter and lyricist, and he was once simply a kind of people that everyone liked. Everyone liked him.”
Watch On
You’ll learn the total interview with Navarro in an upcoming factor of Guitar Global.
In the meantime, Navarro’s major band, Jane’s Habit, will unencumber a brand new unmarried, Approaching Redemption, on July 25.
