Queen and Foo Fighters drummers teaming up for tour?

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins might be collaborating with Queen drummer Roger Taylor if Taylor gets his wish. Taylor called Hawkins "one of my best blood brothers," telling BBC 6 Music, "I've been thinking about doing a tour next year -- a very quick tour -- with Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters . . . So we might do that. That sounds like fun." Hawkins and Taylor, along with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, played an all-star drum jam together at Live Earth in 2007, while Hawkins has also played on Queen guitarist Brian May's solo track "Cyborg" and also sat behind the kit at the 2006 VH1 Rock Honors for Queen's "We Will Rock You."

Hawkins cites Taylor as a huge influence on his own drumming, and told us a while back that Queen has influenced Foo Fighters in several ways: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "Us as a band, I would probably say our live shows have just, like, tried to -- you've got to play these huge places, and you kind of want to try and make a big place seem like a club, you know, that's the idea. And so I think as a band, it was probably their live performances. But musically, Queen were so musically diverse, you know, and I think that we, we don't want every song to sound the same on every album."

Roger Taylor is currently promoting a new solo single called "The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)," a protest song. "The Queen drummer said: What happened to the protest song? Music is now so polished, shiny and predictable, we have forgotten to try and "say something with it". We are fighting a pointless actively negative war which is killing our young soldiers and which we simply cannot afford. This war promotes and prolongs terrorism. This is our Vietnam. Unwinnable. Pointless. I'm pissed off - you should be too."

Hawkins is putting the finishing touches on a second album from his side band, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders.