Get the Money

Get The Money is a cheeky retort to anyone who says drummers haven’t got a musical bone in their body: this record by Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and his band (their third) is a rollicking rock ’n’ roll record, helped by its estimable roll call of collaborators, including Hawkins’s bandmate Dave Grohl, Queen drummer Roger Taylor and The Pretenders’ Chrissy Hynde.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins ropes in famous pals for an all-star jam on Get The Money

It took Taylor Hawkins nearly a decade to record his third album with the Coattail Riders but, to be fair, his main gig as the drummer of the Foo Fighters kept him busy in the nine years separating 2010's Red Light Fever from 2019's Get the Money.

 Hawkins himself has spoken about how the track, and album, were born when, complaining about how tired Foos touring made him,  he was told by The Eagles star Joe Walsh to “Get the money, shut up and quit being a wimp,” to echo the great BB King.