FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: FOO FIGHTERS DRUMMER, TAYLOR HAWKINS DEAD AT 50!

Taylor Hawkins, drummer for Foo Fighters, dead at 50.......Early in career, Hawkins drummed for Canadians Alanis Morissette and Sass Jordan..........Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, has died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50.

There were no immediate details on how Hawkins died, although the band said in a statement Friday that his death was a "tragic and untimely loss."

Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at a festival in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday night. Hawkins's final concert was Sunday at another festival in San Isidro, Argentina.

"His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever," said a message on the band's official Twitter account that was also emailed to reporters. "Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family."

'This leaves me empty'

The Bogota municipal government issued a statement Saturday that the city's emergency centre had received a report of a patient with "chest pain" and sent an ambulance, though a private ambulance had already arrived at the hotel in northern Bogota.

Health workers tried to revive him, but were unable to do so. It said the cause of death was under investigation.

"It was a band I grew up with. This leaves me empty," Juan Sebastian Anchique, 23, told The Associated Press as he mourned Hawkins outside the hotel.