Watch Def Leppard Perform With Foo Fighters and Miley Cyrus

Def Leppard members Joe Elliott, Phil Collen and Rick Savage carried out with Miley Cyrus and Foo Fighters on the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Live performance in Los Angeles Tuesday night time.

The band opened its two-song set with “Rock of Ages,” performing with Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, plus Weezer drummer Pat Wilson.

“I got here right here in 1983 to see this band play this guitar on this track we’re about to play,” Smear mentioned from the stage, including that Collen had loaned him the guitar he was about to make use of – the identical one Collen performed in 1983. The group was then joined by Cyrus for a cowl of Def Leppard’s “{Photograph}.”

“Love you, Taylor Hawkins,” Cyrus mentioned earlier than leaving the stage. “That was for you.” You possibly can see footage of the efficiency under.

In April, a month after Hawkins’ loss of life, Elliott honored the late Foo Fighters drummer throughout an episode of his weekly radio present. “What a life drive that man was,” the Def Leppard singer declared of Hawkins. “An unimaginable drummer. One of many biggest trendy drummers there’s ever been. What a stunning, humble, candy man he was as effectively.”

Elliott discovered parallels between the Foo Fighters’ loss and the tragedy Def Leppard endured a long time earlier. “I nonetheless cannot consider it myself truly. After all, most of you’ll know that I have been by means of this myself with Steve Clark 30 years in the past. So I understand how the fellows really feel,” he defined, referencing the Def Leppard guitarist who died in 1991. “All we will hope for is that [the Foo Fighters] take a little bit of time to let themselves grieve. Circle the wagons, and simply wait it out after which resolve what they wanna do.”

Collen additionally paid tribute to Hawkins within the days after his loss of life, sharing his ideas in a submit to the Def Leppard Fb web page. “Simply heard the tragic information about Taylor and having identified him for about 30 years, this hit house fairly exhausting,” the guitarist wrote on March 26. “Taylor was the sweetest, funniest man, so I watched with pleasure and pleasure as he progressed from working in a neighborhood music retailer to enjoying with Alanis Morissette and in the end becoming a member of up with Dave and the Foos. His expertise grew exponentially as did his success, however he all the time remained similar to that child I might see at Laguna Seaside together with his boogie board. He will likely be extremely missed. A lot like to his household and bandmates.”