Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters Drummer, Dead at 50

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    He wasn't Neil Peart, but he had his popularity. Bets on drugs, jab, or suicide? (He was in S. America/Colombia to perform- I'm gonna bet drugs)




     
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    Honk honk, party time, but our poor little clown seems unhinged this morning. What happened Mrhanky uncle Joe sniff someone else?
     
    Best time to check out , still young and in shape full head of hair and dick still works.Who in their right mind wants to stick around when your 80 your dick is dead and your pants smell like shit.
     
    He wasn't Neil Peart, but he had his popularly. Bets on drugs, jab, or suicide? (He was in S. America/Colombia to perform- I'm gonna bet drugs)





    I was just commenting on this to a friend. With Neil, I took it as a personal loss. No doubt Taylor was popular (no Neil Peart for sure), but he worshipped Neil and I was there when he inducted Rush to the HoF. That said, I'm kind of stunned. Just 50. My guess, heart attack due to coke. Kind of the John Entwistle route.
     
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    I was just commenting on this to a friend. With Neil, I took it as a personal loss. No doubt Taylor was popular (no Neil Peart for sure), but he worshipped Neil and I was there when he inducted Rush to the HoF. That said, I'm kind of stunned. Just 50. My guess, heart attack due to coke. Kind of the John Entwistle route.
    I heard he actually called the front desk for a doctor (instead of 911) for chest pain...not sure if just rumor; he had known drug problems and spent 2 weeks in a coma after an OD a while back. Coke + jab = massive MI for sure, but we won't hear about the jab. They were also doing a lot of traveling, just came from Argentina; huge set-up for DVT's/clots that leads to pulmonary embolism (also causes chest pain).
     
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    I liked the band's music - caught one of its gigs at the State Theater in early 1996 and have been a fan since. I enjoyed Taylor's drumming style and his enthusiasm for his work, and I appreciated the fact that the band was one of the last holdouts from an era in music that was very important to me. It sucks that he died, regardless of the cause, and I'm rather tired of reading obituaries for musicians from my generation.
     
    I heard he actually called the front desk for a doctor (instead of 911) for chest pain...not sure if just rumor; he had known drug problems and spent 2 weeks in a coma after an OD a while back. Coke + jab = massive MI for sure, but we won't hear about the jab. They were also doing a lot of traveling, just came from Argentina; huge set-up for DVT's/clots that leads to pulmonary embolism (also causes chest pain).
    I also have been told he really didn't want the jab; but I guess Grohl was insistent. Don't know. But you're correct: coke + jab = M.I. You're also correct - never will they mention if it was jab related.

    Speaking as to jab; I have a few friends that took it to stay employed. I really worry about them and their children (adult children) and if they're going to end up with myocarditis and ultimately are they going to have myocardal infarction too?
     
    I was just commenting on this to a friend. With Neil, I took it as a personal loss. No doubt Taylor was popular (no Neil Peart for sure), but he worshipped Neil and I was there when he inducted Rush to the HoF. That said, I'm kind of stunned. Just 50. My guess, heart attack due to coke. Kind of the John Entwistle route.
    Did he play soccer too?
     
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    "The official tweet from the country’s attorney general said (translated from Spanish): “In the urine toxicological test carried out on the body of Taylor Hawkins, 10 types of substances were preliminarily found, among them: THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids."

    Looks like he partied a little too hard in Colombia.

     
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    10 types of substances were preliminarily found, among them: THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids."

    Except the THC, I bet the majority of those are prescription. Like a Heath Ledger OD. Polypharmacy. The enlarged heart - could be old cocaine history, could be jab-related, maybe acromegaly like Roger Waters.
     
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    Once a junkie always a junkie.
    “i’M nOt A jUnKiE, i JuSt PaRtY hArD” - snorts more heroin.

    I did a lot of drugs in college but mostly hippie shit like LSD, mushrooms, some coke, took speed a few times. Heroin is the one drug that you cannot walk away from. It's fucking poison, they shoot it up and turn into zombies. "You think it's wonderful and if they dose correctly they can do it forever and blah blah blah" and ALL the heroin guys I knew who started shooting it are dead now. All of them.
     
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    The combination that seems to be killing a large number of guys in their 40s and 50s is the usual recreational stupidity in their youth and then prescription opioids later as they start to suffer from 30 years of physical wear and tear.

    Reports are now coming out that Hawkins had a severely enlarged heart. Combining that sort of serious (if fairly common) health problem with the rock-and-roll lifestyle is not going to have good outcomes, as evidenced by the long list of Gen Xers who are passing all too young.
     
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    And the jabs.

    That probably doesn't help, but this trend has been developing for over a decade. Even prior to the pandemic, "accidental poisoning" was shooting to the top of the CDC mortality charts for middle-aged people, and that's not because we've been drinking Draino and eating rat bait.

    Doesn't matter if the drugs are "illegal" or "legal"; the body just doesn't tolerate abuse like that in the 40s and 50s like it does in the 20s, and even more so for people that fell out of shape as they aged. So you take someone with unresolved psychological issues and poor physical fitness and start feeding them pills, and it's likely to end poorly.
     
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    The combination that seems to be killing a large number of guys in their 40s and 50s is the usual recreational stupidity in their youth and then prescription opioids later as they start to suffer from 30 years of physical wear and tear.
    Tom Petty and Prince both OD'd on meds prescribed for bad hips/hip surgery. Seems anti-depressants with opioids is often in the fatal mix too.
     
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    The combination that seems to be killing a large number of guys in their 40s and 50s is the usual recreational stupidity in their youth and then prescription opioids later as they start to suffer from 30 years of physical wear and tear.

    Reports are now coming out that Hawkins had a severely enlarged heart. Combining that sort of serious (if fairly common) health problem with the rock-and-roll lifestyle is not going to have good outcomes, as evidenced by the long list of Gen Xers who are passing all too young.

    Doctors giving everybody who walks in the door Oxy and Antidepressants doesn't help at all.