Musician Dave Navarro is opening up about his struggles with long Covid and the pain of losing friend and bandmate Taylor Hawkins.
Talking with Guitar World, Navarro shared that his band — NHC — with Hawkins and Chris Chaney had music ready when things began to take a turn.
“I’d just completed making a record with Taylor Hawkins and Chris Chaney,” Navarro said. “We mixed and mastered it – and then we lost Taylor. That was in the middle of Covid, and it was actually very painful for me to pick up the guitar after that. … I didn’t pick up the guitar for about a year.”
He said, “For the first year after losing Taylor, I didn’t play. …Then, about a year into it, I picked up the guitar, started playing some cover songs, and just kind of got used to the instrument in my hand again.”
There are no announced plans to release NHC’s album.
