Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins made some bold remarks about Jeff Buckley’s death and legacy in a new Rolling Stone interview, calling Grace one of the greatest records of all time, and saying that unfortunately ‘some people aren’t meant to be here a long time.’ He also said Buckley would have made a ‘great’ second record.
“I wish I could sing [‘So Real’] like [Jeff Buckley]. I love that guy’s voice. That was my ‘getting some business’ CD back on the Alanis Morissette tour [in 1995.] I’d put that motherfucking CD in and it was happening. I like it when he whispers, ‘I love you, but I’m afraid to love you’ in this song.
What a fucking bummer he died. God, that guy would have made some great music had he lived. I think he was really searching for what his next move was going to be. That first record, Grace, nobody knew about it. It took so long. Now everybody is like, ‘Ah, I’m such a big Jeff Buckley fan.’ People really started loving it after he fucking died. I think Page and Plant were on tour and they did a couple shows with him. Those guys aren’t scared of anybody. I heard he opened up for them once and Robert Plant was like, ‘I’m not fucking going onstage.’
Some people aren’t meant to be here a long time, I guess. It was weird because he was a continuum of his dad, but dare I say it, better. There’s people that would be really upset with me for saying that, like Tim Buckley fans. I’ve listened to him and can’t get into it like Jeff Buckley. That Grace record is just a masterpiece. That’s one of the 10 best records ever, up there with OK Computer and Nevermind and Ritual de lo Habitual. That’s one of the 10 greatest records of the 1990s.”
