In memory of Taylor Hawkins... MY HERO - Foo Fighters (Live Vocal/Piano Cover)

In memory of Taylor Hawkins, this is "My Hero" performed live solo by Jonny Brewer on vocals and piano. Recorded 21 March 2024.
"My Hero" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released in January 1998 as the third single from their second album, The Colour and the Shape (1997). The song, which reached number six on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart, is considered a Foo Fighters classic and a staple at the band's concerts.
Although the song was first released on The Colour and the Shape album in 1997, it was played live as early as 1995. The demo features lead singer Dave Grohl singing and playing drums, bass, and guitars. In the Foo Fighters 2011 documentary Foo Fighters: Back and Forth, bassist Nate Mendel states he knew the band had a future when he heard Grohl’s demo of "My Hero" “because the song was great”. On the record, Mendel played bass while Pat Smear, former guitarist of Nirvana, played rhythm guitar. Taylor Hawkins did not drum on the record but appeared in the music video.
In a 1999 interview, Grohl said that the song is "'about heroes that are ordinary'" and added that he looks up to everyday people more than he looks up to celebrities. During Foo Fighters' appearance on VH1 Storytellers in 2009, Grohl explained that the song was written while watching 1980s movies like Valley Girl. Grohl also stated that the band wrote the song about Pete Stahl and Chip Donaldson without even knowing it.
The recording of the song was done using two different drum tracks played back simultaneously for the introduction and verses.
On September 3, 2022, Foo Fighters played a tribute concert to their late drummer, Taylor Hawkins, at Wembley Stadium. During that concert, the band played "My Hero" with Hawkins's 16-year-old son, Shane Hawkins, on drums. Video of the song went viral, and the performance yielded a Drumeo Award for Drum Performance of the Year for Shane Hawkins. According to Far Out, Shane Hawkins's drumming style was "uncannily similar" to that of his father, and the "powerhouse performance of ‘My Hero’ will go down as one of the stadium’s most emotionally charged songs ever witnessed".
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See my cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the same concert: czcams.com/video/dcAmmXB4Ukg/video.html