o A summary of the piece
This article was about the drummer from the Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, and him discussing his drum style and drum set. He first talks about the new Foo Fighters album, Wasting Light, and how he played the drums on that record. He said that the Foos tried to keep their originality by writing music and playing it as people did in earlier centuries. He explained how they “record[ed] Wasting Light to tape” and didn’t “manipulate” it in order to create “honest, real rock ‘n’ roll” (pg 46). Later, he explained a separate album that he created himself called Red Light Fever with his band Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail riders and how much it sounds like Queen (his favorite band).
The author of this article is Ken Micallef writing for Modern Drummer. On his website, www.kenmicallef.com, it explains that he has written for “such publications as JazzTimes, Rolling Stone, Blender, Downbeat, Musician, Time Out, Interview and the Holy Roller Roundup” which are some of the most prestigious rock ‘n’ roll and music magazines. It also says that he wrote a book The Way They Play about classic rock drummers and their techniques.
The context of this piece would definitely be temporal or causal. It would be considered temporal because Micallef interviewed Taylor Hawkins “right then and there” and created the article in the exigence of that setting of immediate response. However, it could be causal because this article can be seen as a direct after-effect of the more temporal interview.
The purpose this was written was to showcase Taylor Hawkins and his talent away from the stardom of the Foo Fighters. It was, more or less, to express to the audiences that he truly has talent behind the lime-light of the post Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl. It was also to explain to the readers of Modern Drummer (usually drummers themselves) some of Hawkins’ techniques so they can pick them up themselves.
The audience of this piece would be the fans of the Foo Fighters (both those who drum and those who don’t) as well as regular drummers. It would be for fans of the Foos because on the cover, it directly mentions Taylor specifically as the “Foo Fighters’” drummer and not just a regular one. Also, it appeals to regular drummers as well because it gives specific insight to how Taylor plays the drums, with specific techniques that only drummers would know e.g. “You drum fills in ‘Rope’ are almost quintessential ‘70s” (pg 48).
Voice/Tone – Through the diction and the overall stylistic composure, I could make out a strong voice within the piece. The way they included Taylor Hawkins’ quotes as well as his interview, I could pick out exactly how he may have sounded as well as how the interviewer sounded as well.
Enthymeme – in this passage, he includes enthymeme because even though he explained what a great drummer Taylor is, he left out the assumed part that he should be a great drummer because he is in a band with former Nirvana musician, Dave Grohl. This could lead to some argument that even though he’s in a band with a well renowned musician, that he might not be so good himself. However, the article later proves to us that he truly is. The “proving” and “argument” part can also pertain to the classical argument part of the rebuttal or refute.
Yes they did because their main purpose, I believe, was to show to the audience that Taylor Hawkins is a very skilled drummer once taken away from his highly acclaimed best friend (and lead singer) Dave Grohl. He accomplished this by showing Taylor’s more explanatory side and how he does really know what he’s doing. They also show that even though he “rocks off the grid”, he had a technique and it is very impressing.
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